This Union fort in Charleston, S.C. was site of the first battle of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter
100
This railroad connected the west and east coasts of the continental US.
What is the transcontinental railroad
100
The policy of extending your rule over foreign countries by acquiring territories is known as this.
What is imperialism
100
The alliance between Great Britain, France and Russia was known as this
What is the Triple Entente
100
According to this Amendment it is illegal to sell any intoxicating beverage over 0.5% alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment
200
White Southerners who joined the Republican Party were known as these.
What are Scalawags
200
A market in which there are many buyers but only one seller
What is a Monopoly
200
This type of journalism exploits, distorts, or exaggerates news to attract readers.
What is Yellow Journalism
200
This telegram was sent from Germany to the ambassador Mexico, proposing an alliance between them.
What is the Zimmerman Note
200
In 1924 Ford produced what car that only cost $260
What is the Model T
300
The process in which landowners divided their land and assigned each household a few acres, along with seed & tools was known as this.
What is sharecropping
300
This Scottish-born American founded a Steel Company in 1892. By 1901, his company dominated the American steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie
300
This Hawaiian queen who was forced out of power by American businessmen and sugar planters.
Who is Queen Liliuokalani
300
This British passenger ship was sunk by a German U-Boat on May 7, 1915.
What is the Lusitania
300
This person was the first to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in May 1927
Who is Charles Lindbergh
400
This slave, whose owner took him from the slave state of Missouri to free territory in Illinois & Wisconsin and then back to Missouri.
Who is Dred Scott.
400
Based off of Darwin’s theory of natural selection, this was used as an argument against social reforms to help the poor.
What is Social Darwinism
400
In this rebellion violent, anti-foreign Chinese people kicked foreigners out of china.
What is the Boxer Rebellion
400
This clause stated that Germany was solely responsible for World War I.
What is the War Guilt Clause
400
Upper class wealth women who wore short skirts, short hair, and listened to jazz were know by this name.
What is a flapper?
500
This Union General led military forces into Tennessee to take control of Fort Henry & Donelson.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant.
500
This law that made it illegal to create monopolies or trusts that restrained free trade.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act
500
This location was the site of the famous battle of the Spanish-American war, where Theodore Roosevelt successfully leads the Rough Riders in a charge against the Spanish.
What is San Juan Hill.
500
These two acts stated that a person could be fined up to $10,000 and sentenced to 20 years in jail for interfering with the war effort or saying anything disloyal about the government or war effort.
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts
500
This court case opposed the teaching of evolution in public schools?
What is The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes