San Francisco California experienced a population boom in 1849 due to this:
What is the Gold Rush?
100
Inventor of the telephone
Who was Alexander Graham Bell?
100
In 1889, Jane Addams establishes a settlement house in Chicago for the needy
What is Hull House?
100
Year that Spain and the U.S. declare war on each other over Cuba
What is 1898?
100
This technological weapon was first used to break the stalemate of WWI
What are tanks?
200
1861 law that gave settlers 160 acres of land, as long as they lived there for 5 years, and grew crops
What is the Homestead Act?
200
In 1886, Samuel Gompers formed this union
What is the American Federation of Labor?
200
Jacob Riis’s book (1890) that documents in words and pictures the squalid living conditions in New York slums
What is "How The Other Half Lives"
200
Queen Liliuokalani was removed in order for the US to annex these Islands.
What is Hawaii?
200
This was the nickname of the young American soldiers who fought in WWI
Who are the Doughboys?
300
The idea that Americans had the right to expand in a westward direction.
What is Manifest Destiny?
300
In 1856, the process to mass production of inexpensive steel is invented. Name the process
What is the Bessemer Process?
300
In 1909, this organization was created to challenge discrimination and outbreaks of racial violence.
What is NAACP?
300
an artificial waterway connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Panama Canal?
300
The turning point of WWI, fought in a forest...
What is the Battle of the Argonne Forest?
400
The Cherokee Nation is forced to march from the east coast to Oklahoma; many thousands die along the way
What is the Trails of Tears?
400
Person who monopolized 90% of oil production and owner of Standard Oil Company
Who was John D Rockefeller?
400
Acts passed after “muckraking” journalists reveal unsanitary conditions in food production and the existence of fraudulent medicines. The laws impose fines on companies that endanger the health of consumers.
What are the Pure Food and Drug Acts? (1906)
400
A US term for a type of journalism that presents little or no legitimate well-researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers (fake news)
What is Yellow Journalism?
400
This provision of the Treaty of Versailles forced Germany to accept the blame for causing WWI
What is the War-Guilt Clause?
500
In 1869, the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroads meet at Promontory, Utah and this railroad is completed
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
500
Andrew Carnegie wrote this book where he stated that men like him had a responsibility to spend their money to benefit the greater good
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!
The amendment that instituted a federal income
tax. Progressives support the income tax, believing it to be
a fairer method of collecting revenue, especially from the
wealthy
What is the 16th Amendment?
500
At the end of the Spanish American War, the U.S. became the"protectorate" of this country.
What is Cuba?
500
A formal political, military or economic agreement between two or more nations.