World War I
Women's Suffrage
Muckrakers
New Inventions
Fun Facts
100

WWI was a two front war.  What were those two fronts called?

The Eastern front and the Western Front

100

Suffrage is the right to _______________

vote

100

This book shed light on the struggles and living conditions of poor immigrants in New York City

"How the Other Half Lives"

100

This type of gun was much more deadly than standard rifles and forced soldiers to use trench warfare in WWI

Machine Guns


100

Which popular fictional character almost died of the Spanish flu before being "saved" by a doctor named Carlisle

Edward Cullen


200

World War I started after Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian national, assassinated the heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire _________________

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

200

The only African American invited to the Seneca Falls Convention was _______________

Frederick Douglass

200

This Danish American investigative journalist wrote "How the Other Half Lives", "Children of the Poor", and revolutionized investigative photography

Jacob Riis

200

During WWI, Germany invented a vehicle that revolutionized marine travel

The U Boat

200

This heroic dog earned the honor of sergeant for his service during WWI

Sgt. Stubby

300

The two sides of WWI were called the _________ powers and the _________ powers

Allied Powers and Central Powers

300

Two of the leaders most famous in the American women's suffrage movement were ....

Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
300

This muckraker wrote the book "The Jungle", to raise awareness of the bad working conditions (and disgusting practices) of meat packing factories

Upton Sinclair

300

In 1903, two brothers invented a new machine that was first test-run in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

The airplane


300

Mary Shelley is credited for inventing the science fiction drama with her spooky book

Frankenstein

400

WWI was the first war to use these now banned weapons of war __________________

Chemical Gases

400

Which amendment gives women the right to vote

The 19th Amendment

400

This African American muckraker raised awareness of racially based lynchings

Ida B Wells


400

This German invention was unintentionally as hurtful as it was helpful, as it exacerbated the effects of certain diseases like hemophilia (in the case of the Prince of Russia) or the Spanish Flu?

Aspirin

400

What was the first idea for how to answer the phone before we settled on "Hello"?

Ahoy!

500

World War I ended in armistice with the _______________ of ____________

Treaty of Versailles

500

What were one arguments against women's suffrage (besides sexism) ?

That Black women would be legally allowed to vote or the Need to Focus on WWI

500

Which president criticized muckrakers despite being a "progressive president"

Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt

500

In 1895, the telephone was invented by _________________

Alexander Graham Bell OR Guglielmo Marconi

500

This weapon was wielded by women to avoid creepy men

A hat pin

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