This word refers to something covered in gold, but not solid gold.
What is Gilded?
100
Name the leader of the Bull Moose Party.
Who is Teddy Nash Roosevelt?
100
Name the two alliances in this war.
What is the Central Powers and the Allied Powers?
100
This was the leader of Germany who promoted fascism.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
100
This was caused by North Korean Communists invading South Korea across the 38th parallel.
What is the Korean War?
200
This man got super-duper rich from oil.
Who is John D Rockefeller?
200
This was another name for the Industrial Workers of the World.
What is the Wobblies?
200
Which of the two Alliances is considered the victor of WWI?
While many say the Allies won, in reality everyone involved was a loser.
200
This American Harbor was bombed by the Japanese in 1941.
What is Pearl Harbor
200
This president resigned before he could be impeached.
Who was Nixon?
300
This was a walk-off that shut down thousands of miles of railroad tracks.
What is the Railroad Strike of 1877?
300
Name and explain three of the Amendments created during this era.
What are 16th through 19th amendments: federal income tax; direct election of senators; prohibition; women's suffrage.
300
This man's assassination is considered the event that started WWI.
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
300
This type of person used an isolated language to send undecipherable messages between allies.
What is a Navajo Code Talker?
300
This got Clinton impeached after he had an affair. (That doesn't mean he left office, though)
What is "DNA evidence?"
400
These are the book and writer the Gilded Age is named after.
What is The Gilded Age by Mark Twain?
400
This man wrote The Jungle.
Who was Upton Sinclair?
400
WWI happened between these two years.
1914-1918
400
These were a group of volunteers who defended China against Japanese forces.
Who were the Flying Tigers?
400
This president had both the lowest and highest approval rates of any US President.
Who is George Walker Bush?
500
Who was president 1869-1877. Extra points for naming one of his VPs!
Who is Ulysses S Grant? Bonus: Schuyler Colfax or Henry Wilson.
500
This Act imposes a fine of up to $10,000 and up to twenty years in prison for anyone caught interfering with the draft or otherwise encouraging disloyalty.
What is the Espionage Act?
500
This military tactic, which we did not cover in class, was never used before WWI. (Hint: the answer is NOT Trench Warfare).
What is Optic Camouflage?
500
The original name for The National Socialist Party was Nasos. "Nazi" comes from Bavarian, and is derived from a word meaning this.