Section 1
This president won the Nobel Peace Prize for mediating the Russo-Japanese War.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This muckraking journalist exposed conditions in the meatpacking industry in The Jungle.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
The 1919 amendment that granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This 1898 conflict resulted in American acquisition of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
What is the Spanish-American War?
The 1904-1914 construction project that connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
The 1904 policy and natural consequence to the Monroe Doctrine that justified U.S. intervention in Latin America.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
The 1906 law that required accurate labeling of food and drugs and banned harmful additives.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This progressive president created the Federal Reserve System in 1913.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
The 1900 Boxer Rebellion occurred in this country.
What is China?
This American naval strategist wrote The Influence of Sea Power upon History.
Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan?
This 1898 Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of segregation under "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This amendment, ratified in 1913, allowed for a federal income tax.
What is the 16th Amendment?
The 1914 act that created the Federal Trade Commission to prevent unfair business practices.
What is the Federal Trade Commission Act?
This 1905 conference in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, ended the Russo-Japanese War.
What is the Portsmouth Conference?
The 1898 annexation of these islands gave the U.S. a strategic position in the Pacific.
What are the Hawaiian Islands?
The progressive president who broke up the most trusts, earning the nickname "Trustbuster."
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
The 1902 act that authorized federal irrigation projects in the West.
What is the Newlands Reclamation Act?
This muckraker exposed corruption in city government in The Shame of the Cities.
Who is Lincoln Steffens?
The Open Door Policy aimed to maintain trade access in this country.
What is China?
This 1903 treaty with Panama granted the U.S. rights to build a canal.
What is the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty?
This 1906 act gave the president power to set aside forest reserves and protected 230 million acres.
What is the Antiquities Act?
This Supreme Court case in 1911 broke up Standard Oil under the Sherman Antitrust Act.
What is Standard Oil Co. v. United States?
The 1902 Newlands Reclamation Act primarily benefited farmers in this region.
What is the West?
This 1899-1902 conflict between the U.S. and Filipino insurgents resulted in over 200,000 deaths.
What is the Philippine-American War?
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine was issued in response to instability in this Caribbean nation.
What is the Dominican Republic?