Where was the very first battle of the Spanish-American War fought?
What is the Phillipines?
100
Vocabulary term meaning "The different kinds of maps cartographers use to show the Earth".
What is projections?
100
He invented the phonograph.
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
Vocabulary term meaning "A style of newspaper writing in which reporters exaggerate the facts of a story in order to sell newspapers".
What is yellow journalism?
100
Who wanted to help with the terrible conditions in the city so they invented settlement houses where people could learn new skills?
Who is Jane Addams?
200
Theodore Roosevelt started a volunteer fighting group called the...
What is the Rough Riders?
200
Vocabulary term meaning "A person who worked to improve life for those who were not wealthy".
What is a progressive?
200
He invented the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
200
Vocabulary term meaning "A person who is against any kind of government".
What is an anarchist?
200
Who also helped to improved cities around the turn of the century by inventing skyscrapers so living conditions were less crowded?
Who is William Jenney?
300
Roosevelt sent a fleet of warships called the ____ around the world to show that America was powerful.
What is the Great White Fleet?
300
Vocabulary term meaning "The building of an empire".
What is imperialism?
300
He made cars affordable by creating the assembly line.
Who is Henry Ford?
300
Vocabulary term meaning "The purposeful errors that enable cartographers to make flat maps".
What are distortions?
300
What skills did settlement houses teach classes on?
What is cooking, sewing, and the English language?
400
President Roosevelt built the ____ so ships would not have to go all the way around South America to get to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Panama Canal?
400
Vocabulary term meaning "The protection of the environment by keeping natural resources from being wasted or destroyed".
What is conservation?
400
Were the first to successfully fly an airplane.
Who are the Wright brothers?
400
Vocabulary term meaning "A system of building things in which a moving belt carries parts from worker to worker".
What is an assembly line?
400
What invention allowed people to move out of the inner city which helped with overcrowding?
What is the trolley car?
500
When the United States war ship the Maine blew up, Americans blamed Spain. Why?
What is yellow journalism?
500
Vocabulary term meaning "The plan to stop people in the U.S. from drinking alcoholic beverages".
What is prohibition?
500
He invented the light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
500
Vocabulary term meaning "An elected official--often a mayor--who has many dishonest employees and who is able to control the government with the help of those employees".