This was the location of a massacre which effectively ended Native Resistance to U.S. encroachment.
What is Wounded Knee?
100
This was an organization that used its political power to secure votes and get rich; they did help numerous immigrants, however.
What is a political machine?
100
This was the old political practice of appointing political supporters into government jobs; it was sometimes called patronage.
What is the spoils system?
100
This was the name for exaggerated and falsified reporting which helped stir war fever in the U.S. in the late 1800s.
What is yellow journalism?
100
This was the biggest Presidential scandal in U.S. history (until Watergate) as the Secretary of the Interior accepted $400,000 in kickbacks for the illegal lease of naval oilfields.
What is Teapot Dome?
200
This changed the meaning of the Civil War, effectively prevented European support of the Confederacy, and ended any real chance of the war ending peacefully.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
This was the belief that attempted to apply natural selection to companies and people, justifying the rich as simply better and smarter than the poor.
What is Social Darwinism?
200
This was the name for a progressive journalist or writer who exposed the problems of society near the turn-of-the-century.
What is muckraker?
200
This was the perfect example of Teddy Roosevelt's "Big-Stick" Diplomacy, as the U.S. showed the world that it could reach anywhere with its military might.
What is the Great White Fleet?
200
These outlawed speaking out against the war effort or the government and resisting the draft or encouraging others to resist the draft in person or through the mail.
What is the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
300
This amendment states that anyone born in the U.S. is a citizen and has equal protection of the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
300
This was a protest against police brutality that ended with a bomb exploding as police attempted to clear the protesters and resulted in many people across the nation viewing the labor movement as violent.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
300
Susan B. Anthony was leader for the Women's Suffrage Movement, but she passed away before the passage of this amendment, which protected women's right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
300
This was the foreign policy practiced by William Taft's administration as it looked to lessen U.S. military intervention and focused instead on using U.S. business and investments to influence other nations.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
300
These were the nations who agreed to limit their navies in the Pacific according to the terms of the Five-Power Treaty.
What is France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, and the U.S.?
400
This was a war many claimed was unjustly caused by the U.S. desire to expand its slave-holding territory.
What is the Mexican-American War?
400
This is the belief that immigrants are bad for the nation and its economy.
What is nativism?
400
This was legislation passed by Congress intended to break up monopolies which threatened consumers, but was first used to break up labor unions for monopolistic practices.
What is the Sherman Anti-trust Act?
400
These were the nations which became U.S. territories according to the terms of the Treaty of Paris in 1898.
What is Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico?
400
He was one of the two famed attorneys involved in the Scopes "Monkey" Trial.
Who is Clarence Darrow or William Jennings Bryan?
500
This was the political movement of the late 19th century which represented the interests of a wide variety of "common" people; the platform included government ownership of the railroad and an end to the gold standard.
What is Populism?
500
He was the leader of the most influential early union in American history, the American Federation of Labor, which fought for higher wages, fewer hours, and better working conditions.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
500
This was the Supreme Court Decision which upheld the practice of segregation as legal as long as facilities were equal.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
500
He wrote about the importance of navies in extending a nation's power globally which contributed to numerous nations' buildup of their navies.
Who is Alfred T. Mahan?
500
He was the head of the Committee on Public Information, which printed a government newspaper, produced pro-war propaganda, trained speakers to give pro-war speeches, and even spied on citizens all to promote U.S. efforts in World War I.