A changing role
New directions
Progressives and reform
leftovers
Past lessons
100
Theodore Roosevelt accomplished the _____ as President.
What is the "building of the Panama Canal?
100
Wilbur and Orville Wright are known for this.
What brothers were known for building a machine in which people could fly?
100
A term that described people, or groups of people who set out to reform the government and to help the poor and needy.
What are "progressives?"
100
Journalism that does not tell the truth and exaggerates the facts.
What is "yellow Journalism?"
100
W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, and Booker T. Washington worked together to form the _______, which worked to change state laws that did not give full civil rights to all groups of people
What is the "NAACP?"
200
These territories of _____ and ____ remained in U.S. control after the Spanish-American War.
What are Guam and Puerto Rico?
200
_____ shortened the time it took to do household chores.
What is "electricity?"
200
a system that gave people jobs based on tests taken to prove they were qualified for the job.
What is the "merit system?"
200
This U.S. President and Spain signed an agreement known as a/an _____ which was an aggreement to stop fighting.
What is an "armistice?"
200
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution established an income tax.
What was the "Sixteenth Amendment?"
300
The ______ caused Congress to declare war on Spain in 1898.
What was the sinking of the U.S. Battleship the Maine?
300
Henry Ford developed and used this to make his cars less expensive.
What is an "assembly line?"
300
Governor ______ improved workplace conditions by supporting laws limiting the workday to 10 hours.
Who was Robert M. La Follette?
300
These laws to protect children wanted to limit children working long hours, often in dangerous conditions.
What are "child labor laws?"
300
Associated the Cuban struggle for independence with the U.S. Revolutionary War, an independent Cuba would be better for U.S. business interests, stories they read in American Newspapers written by yellow journalist, and the sinking of the Battleship Maine.
Why did Americans support Cubans' fight for independence from Spain?
400
this type of source does not have made-up details or people.
What is a documentary source?
400
This term means "travel by air."
What is aviation
400
This Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution accomplished this right for all U. S. citizens.
What is" allowed voters to elect their U.S. senators directly?"
400
A Governor who was also known as a ____ because he wanted to make life better for the poor and the needy as well as reform government.
What is "Robert M. La Follette?"
400
The building of the______ shortened travel time and improved trade by making a shortcut between the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans.
What was the "Panama Canal?"
500
These two men were known as yellow journalists in 1898 because of the way they exaggerated the stories they wrote.
Who were Joseph Pultitzer and William Randolph Hearst?
500
Thomas Edison invented the ______, a machine that could play back recorded sounds.
What is a "phonograph?"
500
The National Urban League formed in 1910 to _____.
What is "helped African Americans who lived in the cities?"
500
These are the rights guaranteed to all U.S. citizens.
What are "civil rights?"
500
Caused cities to grow because fewer people were needed to plant and harvest crops.
What did the development of new steam-powered tractors and reapers do for the growth of cities.
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