This style of journalism includes using sensational and untrue facts to sell newspapers.
What is yellow journalism?
100
This was the first permanent English colony in America.
What is Jamestown?
100
The West is considered all land west of this longest of American rivers.
What is the Mississippi River?
100
His creation of the Standard Oil Company made him the richest man in American history.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
100
America joined the war in this year?
What is 1917?
200
A tax on foreign goods.
What is a tariff?
200
The rebellion led by this Massachusetts farmer in 1786 is one factor which led to the creation of the US Consitution.
Who is Shay?
200
This 1862 law gave western settlers free land if they agreed to live on it for 5 years and develop it.
What is the Homestead Act?
200
Though often seen as a kindly philanthropist who built thousands of libraries, he brutally crushed his striking workers in Homestead, Pennsylvania in 1892.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
200
Wilson's post war peace plan included this many points (or ideas).
What are 14?
300
This political party of the 1890s was heavily supported by western farmers?
Who are the Populists?
300
This document created a weak federal government which could not even tax its citizens.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
300
Following this 1890 battle, the Native Americans would cease to be a threat to American settlers in the West and remain peacefully on their reservations.
What is Wounded Knee?
300
Steel was made affordable by Carnegie's use of this steel making process which removes impurities from iron.
What is the Bessemer process?
300
America joined the war against Germany mostly due to Germany's use of this weapon against Americans sailing on ships in the Atlantic.
What are U-boats or submarines?
400
California became heavily populated before the Civil War as a result of people searching for this.
What is gold?
400
This 1620 document became the first attempt by Europeans to create a government in America.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
400
His thesis about the closure of the American frontier helped to spur on the need for American imperialism.
Who is Frederick Jackson Turner?
400
Early labor unions included this union, which advocated the use of radical violence and murder to obtain its goals.
What is the IWW?
400
The Senate's refusal to ratify the Treaty of Versailles meant the US never joined this peace keeping organization.
What is the League of Nations?
500
This act set aside land for the building of agricultural colleges which taught people how to farm more effectively.
What is the Morrill Land Act?
500
The main effect of the French and Indian War was more of these in the American colonies (and you thought yours were high).
What are taxes?
500
These were created to try to assimilate Native American children into the white/mainstream culture.
What are Indian Boarding schools?
500
The Grange and the Populist Party both worked to fight back against this American industry which stole millions of acres of land from Western farmers and Indians.
What are the railroads?
500
The Germans attempted to entice this nation to attack the US through a series of Morse code communications.