Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
People
Vocabulary
100
One reason Americans supported Cuba in wanting independence from Spain
What is financial interests, like American Revolution, believed yellow journalism
100
letters, diaries, and newspapers are examples of this
What is documentary sources
100
government system where each member is in charge of one part of city government
What is commission
100
Panama Canal was built during his presidency
What is Theodore Roosevelt
100
reporting that does not tell the truth and exaggerates facts
What is yellow journalism
200
The US ship that many Americans believed to have been blown up by Spain
What is battleship Maine
200
City in which the Wright Brothers made their first successful flight
What is Kitty Hawk
200
Granting people jobs based on test scores and ability
What is Merit System
200
Progressive Wisconsin governor in 1900
What is Robert M. La Follette
200
Wanted to improve government and improve life for the poor
What is progressives
300
The two lands the US won from Spain that still belong to the US today
What is Puerto Rico & Guam
300
Alexander Graham bell invented this
What is telephone
300
Sixteenth Amendment established this
What is income tax
300
Brothers who pioneered aviation
What is the Wright Brothers
300
rights guaranteed to all citizens by the Constitution
What is civil rights
400
2 countries U.S. gained from Spain that are now independent
What is Cuba & Phillipines
400
Brought electricity to the nation
What is Thomas Edison
400
Seventeenth Amendment gave people this
What is the right to vote directly for their senators
400
Organized the civil rights group NAACP
What is W. E. DuBois
400
Company with very little or no competition
What is monpoly
500
Waterway built to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is Panama Canal
500
Gugliemo Marconi invented this
What is radio
500
Group formed to help African Americans who lived in cities find jobs and housing
What is National Urban league
500
Created an assembly line to lower car prices
What is Henry Ford
500
Form of economic system in which people and businesses control the production of goods and services
What is capitalism
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