This is the country where the Boxer Rebellion took place.
What is China?
100
The now infamous 'Zimmerman Note' helped convince average Americans of the need to join World War I by revealing a plot by Germany to form an alliance with this country.
What is Mexico?
100
First introduced in 1908, by the end of World War I almost half of Americans would own one.
What is the Ford Model-T?
100
Franklin D. Roosevelt's famous 'conversations with America' over the radio.
What were fireside chats?
100
World War II officially started on September 1, 1939 when Germany invaded this country.
What is Poland?
200
This term described a form of reporting that sensationalized and exaggerated events to sell more newspapers.
What is 'yellow' journalism?
200
Trust busting focused on breaking up monopolies in certain U. S. business sectors, most famously these three industries.
What are Oil, Railroads, and Steel?
200
The Scopes Monkey Trial focused on this fundamental scientific theory being taught in schools.
What is evolution?
200
This was the worst day in the history of the New York Stock Exchange, often used as the start of the Great Depression.
What is 'Black Tuesday?'
200
The not-so-subtle plan of FDR to draw the U. S. into WWII that involved us claiming ownership of most of the Atlantic Ocean and threatening to attack anyone in those waters.
What is the Hemispheric Defense Zone?
300
This now infamous U. S. Supreme Court case created the doctrine of 'separate but equal' that allowed for legal segregation in the United States.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
300
This U. S. President would go on to become Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court.
Who is William Howard Taft?
300
The 19th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution changed this about U. S. law.
What was women's suffrage?
300
He was president during the start of the Great Depression and his name became synonymous with many of the more negative aspects of the depression.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
300
This future U. S. President was the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.
Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?
400
This was one of the lawyers in the famous Scopes Monkey Trial, unsuccessfully ran for President three times, founded the Anti-Imperialist League, was a member of the Temperance Movement.
Who was William Jennings Bryan?
400
This 'Progressive' Amendment to the U. S. Constitution allowed for the first tax on income.
What is the 16th Amendment?
400
This was an explosion of culture (art, poetry, literature, and music) in the African-American community in the 1920s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
400
This was the amount of the first minimum wage.
What is 25 cents?
400
This Jewish-American physicist was the lead scientist of the Manhattan Project and famously said after testing the first atom bomb: “I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?
500
This Amendment gave ALL U. S. citizens the right to 'due process.'
What is the 14th Amendment?
500
This was the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces, and most decorated veteran (besides George Washington) in U. S. military history.
Who is General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing?
500
This economic theory calls for a 'hands-off' approach by the government.
(Daily Double)
What is 'laissez-faire' economics?
500
One of many factors that helped cause/exacerbate the Great Depression, this called for an increased tax on imported goods.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act?
500
This was the language that the U. S. used to communicate battle plans that the Japanese were unable to decipher.
(Daily Double)