American Indian Studies
A traditional gambling game where players use hand signs.
What is stick/bone/hand/sahel game?
A small crammed apartment where working families typically lived.
What are tenements?
A sensationalized style of reporting in the late 19th-century U.S., characterized by exaggerated, unethical, and often inaccurate headlines designed to boost newspaper circulation.
What is yellow journalism?
The "spark" to WWI.
What is the assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand?
The illegal manufacturing and sale of liquor.
What is bootlegging?
Communal land is split up into individual plots of land.
What is the Dawes/Allotment Act?
Reporters who exposed corruption among politicians and the elite.
What are Muckrakers?
A massive explosion of unknown origin sunk this battleship in Cuba’s Havana harbor.
What is the USS Maine?
A British ocean liner sunk by a German U-boat in 1915 that killed 128 Americans.
What is the Lusitania?
A Depression-era government agency formed to raise public awareness of and provide aid to struggling farmers.
What is the Resettlement Administration?
Corn, beans, and squash.
What is the three sisters?
A book that led to the passing of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act.
What is the Jungle?
Lieutenant colonel of the Rough Rider Regiment who led the charge during the battle of San Juan.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
Young men who were seen as cowards for not joining the war was given this.
What is a white feather?
A president who believed that government should not directly intervene in the economy and that it did not have the responsibility to create jobs or provide economic relief for its citizens.
Who is Hoover?
Allowed tribes to purchase land and add it to their reservation as trust land.
What is the Indian Reorganization Act?
A labor protest in Chicago where police shot protesters believing there to be a bomb.
What is the Haymarket Square Riot?
16 battleship fleets on a 14-month global goodwill tour.
What is the Great White Fleet?
Americans eager to fight in WWI before American entry fought for this country.
What is France?
This athlete metaled in the 1912 Olympic Games, played Major League Baseball, and was one of the founding members of the National Football League.
Who is Jim Thorpe?
A government study which described the poverty and poor living conditions on the reservations.
What is the Meriam Report?
Gave the President the power to exclude or deport foreigners who were considered dangerous or who had criticized the government.
What is the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts?
An agreement between the US and Cuba after the Spanish-American War.
What is the Platt Amendment?
The Ottoman Empire became this country post WWI.
What is Turkey?
This actor was sad-eyed with a
mustache, baggy pants, and a cane.
Who is Charlie Chaplin?