This ship exploded in Havana Harbor on Feb 15, 1898 and sparked a conflict between the US and Spain.
What is the USS Maine?
100
This is a type of journalism that exposes wrongdoing in politics or injustices in society.
What is muckraking?
100
This is a low-cost apartment building that often has poor sanitation and poor safety.
What is a tenement house?
100
Mary Mallon was an immigrant from this country.
What is Ireland
200
The expansion of larger countries in to smaller countries for the purpose of creating a larger empire
What is imperialism?
200
Mary Mallon was accused of spreading this highly contagious disease.
What is typhoid?
200
Because of crime, poverty, and disease, upper-class people left city centers and moved to the __________.
What are the suburbs?
200
This is the idea that Americans were sent by God to expand across the North American continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
300
The U.S. gained these three territories after the signing of the Treaty of Paris
What is Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam?
300
Before the Spanish-American War, Cuba had been colonized by this country.
What is Spain?
300
The ring of people who made deals and got votes for the political boss were called the _______ _______.
What is the political machine?
300
This is the idea that it is the responsibility of white American's to civilize less fortunate parts of the world.
What is the White Man's Burden?
400
We went to war with Spain for these possible reasons (4) provide at least two
Spain's treatment of the Cuban rebels; the desire to expand our empire; the desire for the natural resources on the island of Cuba; the explosion of the USS Maine
400
Using sensational and exaggerated headlines to sway the reader's opinion
What is yellow journalism?
400
This journalist staged photos of young children in living terrible conditions and published them in a book title "How The Other Half Lives."
Who is Jacob Riis?
400
This is a term for a feeling of strong national pride and a desire for an aggressive foreign policy.
What is jingoism?
500
What caused the sinking of the US Naval ship that was stationed in Havana Harbor?
Ammunition/Magazine room became overheated and exploded
500
This was a US foreign policy that stated any efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
500
This is another term for independence, or self-government.
What is sovereignty?
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
This is a term used to describe a Central American nation dominated by U.S. business interests.