Important People
Who was an American evangelist who started a Sunday school movement in Chicago
Hint: Founded Moody Bible Institute
Dwight L. Moody
What was the U.S. East Coast entry port for immigrants fro 1892 until 1954?
Ellis Island
A person who leaves his own country to make his home in another country
Immigrant
Who was the twentieth president of the United States?
Hint: He was assassinated while in office
James Garfield
What was the manmade waterway that the United States built across the Isthmus of Panama to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans?
Panama Canal
Who was the evangelist that had once been a famous baseball player?
Billy Sunday
What was the U.S West coast entry port for immigrants from 1892 until 1954?
Angel Island
The law passed to keep Chinese laborers out of the United States
Chinese Exclusion Act
Who was the twenty-first president of the United States?
Hint: He became President After President Garfield died
Chester A. Arthur
What was the battle won by the Rough Riders
Battle of San Juan Hill
Who helped save the lives of Panama Canal workers by controlling disease-carrying mosquitos?
Colonel William Gorges
What island was possessed by Spain until the end of the Spanish-American War?
Cuba
What was the group of American soldiers led be Theodore Roosevelt during the Spanish-American War?
Rough Riders
Who was the twenty-second president of the United States?
Hint: He was the only president to be elected again after another president has served
Grover Cleveland
Who was the leader of the U.S. naval fleet that destroyed Spanish Pacific naval fleet of ships during the Spanish-American War?
Admiral George Dewey
1889 Pennsylvania flood that took the lives of over 2000 people
Johnstown Flood
What is the group from the Pacific islands that the United States helped free from Spain in the Spanish-American War?
Philippine Islands
What organization helps in times of war and natural disaster?
Hint: It was created by Clara Barton
American Red Cross
Who was the twenty-third president of the United States?
Hint: He expanded the U.S. Navy
Benjamin Harrison
What was the meeting that established time zones around the world?
International Meridian Conference
Who was sent by the United States to set up a government for the Philippines
Hint: He was the twenty-seventh president of the United States
William Howard Taft
What was the location of the hurricane in the year 1900? Which was the deadliest natural disaster in the United States
Galveston, Texas
Amusement park in Brooklyn, N.Y., that has operated since the 1800s
Coney Island
Who was the twenty-fifth president of the United States?
Hint: He declared war against Spain to help free the nation of Cuba
William McKinley
Who was the twenty-eighth president of the United States?
Hint: He was the president when the Panama Canal opened
Woodrow Wilson