The Great American Frontier
Barons of Industry
The Golden Age of Imperialism
The Progessive Presidents
The Progressive Movement
100
This was the Plains Native Americans' main source of food, shelter, and clothing.
What is the buffalo (or American bison)?
100
This man made his fortune in the oil industry. His company's name was Standard Oil.
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
100
The term describing the belief that the current inhabitants of an area are superior to incoming immigrants.
What is nativism?
100
This President was in office during the Spanish-American war. He was assassitated during his second term and inexplicably had a mountain in Alaskan named after him (though it is now called Denali).
Who was William McKinley?
100
This tax reform, made law by the 16th Amendment, accounted for the majority of money collected by the federal government.
What was the (graduated) income tax?
200
This industrial innovation made it possible to travel from the East Coast to the West Coast in less than a tenth of the time it previously had.
What were the railroads?
200
This man made his fortune in the steel industry. He was an immigrant from Scotland.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
200
The island nation annexed by the United States formerly ruled by a royal family (and did not speak Spanish)...also my favorite vacation place.
What is Hawaii?
200
This President oversaw the building of the Panama Canal.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
200
This political reform, made law by the 17th Amendment, was passed to help stop government corruption.
What was the direct election of Senators?
300
Members of this ethnic group were brought to America specifically to work on the railroads (and do the most dangerous jobs).
Who were Chinese immigrants?
300
Many millionaires during the late 1800's owned this type of business that limited competition (now commonly called a monopoly).
What is a trust?
300
The name of the amendment following the Spanish-American war that guaranteed Cuban independence and allowed the U. S. to build naval bases on the island.
What was the Platt Amendment?
300
This President was lated appointed to the U. S. Supreme Court. (and know popularly as the 'Great American Bison.')
Who was William Howard Taft?
300
The name for a process in which normal citizens are allowed to vote on proposed laws or changes to the existing law?
What is a referendum?
400
This was the colloquial name given to towns that rose up in a matter of days (and were sometimes abandoned as quickly) because gold.
What was a 'boom town?'
400
This was a major achievement of the first organized unions in the United States.
Who were higher wages (or better working conditions)? Both are good answers.
400
This is the name of the poem by Rudyard Kipling calling on America to help 'civilize' the barbarian (non-white) masses.
What is 'The White Man's Burden."
400
This President had a PhD in Political Science and History. (And is the only U. S. President so far to have this degree.)
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
400
This U. S. President oversaw the creation of the Federal Trade Commission - which regulated how Americans could do business.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
500
This was the formal name given to the battle in which a confederation of Plains tribes (Lakota/Sioux, Cheyanne, and Arapaho) and the U. S. Army, often called 'Custer's Last Stand.'
What was the Battle of Little Big Horn?
500
This law passed in 1890 made all companies that limited competition illegal.
What is Sherman Antitrust Act?
500
Prominant anti-imperialist, Democratic candidate for president (three times - never winning), appeared in a political cartoon in 'Judge' Magazine along side a Chinese Boxer and Filipino Revolutionary...
Who was William Jennings Bryan?
500
The Roosevelt Corollary, an addition to the Monroe Doctrine, threatened this if European countries continued to lend money to countries in South and Central America.
What is it good for? (Actually, what is war?) Sometimes jeopardy 'questions' are dumb...
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