The Progressive Era was launched, in part, due to this form of journalism.
Who were the muckrakers?
100
The explosion in Havana harbor of this naval vessel helped to usher the Spanish-American War in 1898.
What was the Maine?
100
These were the Central Powers during the War.
What were Germany, Austria, Ottoman Empire?
100
This created most of the great public universities.
What was the Land Grant Act?
100
Secretary of State James Blaine's idea that the nations of North, Central, and South America should work closely together to ensure peace and commerce.
What was Pan-Americanism?
200
The first "Progressive" President who would go on later to found the Progressive, or "Bull Moose," Party in an unsuccessful bid for the Presidency.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
200
Through his newspaper empire centered in San Francisco, William Randolf Hearst pioneered a this form of journalism which would foment public support for war against Spain.
What was yellow journalism?
200
He was the commanding officer of American Expeditionary Forces during the War.
Who was John Pershing?
200
The Union Pacific and Central Pacific companies benefitted greatly from this 1862 Congressional act which sought to link the coastal centers of commerce and manufacturing.
What was the Pacific Railway Act?
200
He published "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History" in 1890.
Who was Alfred Mahan?
300
Theodore Roosevelt came to the Presidency through the murder of this predecessor.
Who was McKinley?
300
At the outbreak of the Spanish American War, he was the Undersecretary for the Navy.
What was Theodore Roosevelt?
300
The mobilization of society and also the targeting of civilians.
What was Total War?
300
The forerunner parties to the GOP founded in in 1854.
What were the Whigs, anti-slavery Democrats, and the Free Soilers?
300
The Progressives felt that their middle class morals should be married to this body to enact reforms.
What was the Federal government?
400
This was a center piece reform, pushed by Progressives, which significantly changed the "upper" chamber of Congress.
What was direct election of Senators?
400
First President of the Philippines, this patriot turned on the US following its decision to annex the islands.
Who was Emilio Aguinaldo?
400
British intelligence claimed to have intercepted this cable from Germany to the Mexican government.
What was the Zimmerman Telegram?
400
These were the two main factions within the Republican Party immediately following the Civil War.
What were the Radicals and Conservatives?
400
Guerilla fighters in Mexico were led by this charismatic leader who would help draw American intervention
Who was Pancho Villa?
500
The 1906 publication of "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair, a novel that takes place in the slaughterhouse quarter of Chicago, inadvertently led to the creation of this current federal agency.
What is the Food and Drug Administration?
500
Attached to an US Army spending bill in Congress, this infamous policy led to Cuba being forced to lease Guantanamo Bay to the US Navy
What was the Platt Amendment?
500
The Soviet government focused on consolidating its revolution and signed this peace deal with Germany in the spring of 1917.
What was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
500
This Constitutional amendment, whose ratification was necessary for a state to be readmitted to the union, abolished slavery and other forms of involuntary servitude.
What was the 13th Amendment?
500
The flow of African American movement into Northern cities.