Gilded Age
What does the word 'Gilded' refer to when calling it the 'Gilded' Age? (Have to explain what the metaphorical meaning is in this sense)
Covering up the Corruption in good stuff
What was the main factor that led to the expansion of large cities in the Northeastern region of the U.S.?
Label for a journalist that published articles often criticizing big-business leaders and politicians in a negative way.
Muckraker
Teddy Roosevelt was in active duty during which war?
Spanish-American War
What was the reason WWI started?
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (Austria-Hungary)
Which chemical has the atomic number one?
Hydrogen
Label for someone who is often in big-business, and has bad intentions/exploits those who work for them.
Robber-Baron
What event took place in Chicago that was supposed to be a peaceful strike, but by the end of it shaped a negative opinion of Union in the U.S.?
Haymarket Affair
Which of these three were labeled as a 'Progressive' President?
Woodrow Wilson
Teddy Roosevelt
Calvin Coolidge
BOTH Woodrow Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt
Who was Teddy VP for?
William McKinley (Assassinated 1901)
How did Germany offer Mexico U.S. territory if they join the war? (Be Specific)
Chromophobia is the fear of what?
Colors
First regulatory agency in the U.S.:
Interstate Commerce Commission
Eugene V. Debs
Which amendment gave women the right to vote?
19th Amendment
Teddy used the White House as a '__________ ____________' to promote an active government that protected the interests of the people.
Bully Pulpit
Eugene Debs was imprisoned under the ____________ Act of 1918 for speaking out against the Selective Service and the Great War.
Sedition Act of 1918.
Which U.S. State is nicknamed "Land of 10,000 Lakes"?
Minnesota
Name the movement that was mostly led by women in America, which eventually led to the prohibition of Alcohol:
Temperance Movement
Who established the first nationwide labor organization?
William Sylvis (National Labor Union - NLU)
Which philosopher was the first African American leader invited to the White House?
Booker T. Washington
What did Teddy utilize as his weapon to 'bust up the Trusts'?
Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
- Federal law that prohibits anticompetitive business practices. Passed to protect trade and commerce.
What was the name for Wilson's peace plan?
The 14 Point Plan (14 Points)
What makes popping corn pop?
The water stored inside the kernel
What eventually led to the end of armed resistance by the Native Americans?
Decimation of Buffalo
Chief Joseph & the Nez Perce ceding territory
Geronimo & Apache defeat (TX,AZ,NM) - officially ended arm resistance
What did American laborers see immigrants as?
Competition
Who introduced the theory of 'Double Consciousness'?
W.E.B DuBois
Who began building the Panama Canal?
Why did Roosevelt want to complete the project? (Three reasons, give me one).
French
Shorten travel time between east and west coasts of the U.S., allow U.S. Navy to reposition itself quickly from one ocean to the other, U.S. needed a short route to protect the Philipines and Guam in the Pacific.
List 3 of Wilson's original 14 points.
An End to Secret Treaties
Freedom of the Seas
Free Trade Among Nations
A Reduction of All Armies & Navies
End Colonialism
Removal of German Troops from Russia
Removal of German Troops from Belgium
Removal of German Troops from France & The Return of Alsace-Lorraine to France
Change in Italy’s Borders
Self-government for Austria-Hungary’s Peoples
Removal of German Troops from the Balkans with Serbia gaining access to the sea
Independence for Turkey, Giving those under Turkish Rule the ability to rule themselves
Independence for Poland
14. Creation of the League of Nations
How many states in the U.S. start with the word "New"?
Four
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York
While Child Labor legislation was often being utilized during the Gilded Age, what other kind of reformation occurred in accordance with Child Labor?
Educational Reform (New Requirements for kids to go to school)
Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse
Bonus Extra Credit (1 point for the whole class)
Who that we have learned about helped found the NAACP?
W.E.B DuBois
Must say WORD FOR WORD
What is Teddy famously quoted with saying when it comes to foreign policy?
"Speak softly, and carry a big stick"
The Labor Shortage during WW1, among other things, helped produce the largest migration of American people in history - what was this called?
'The Great Migration'
'Rockstar' is known for being written and performed by which Canadian band?
Nickelback