The Gilded Age
This famous author coined the term, "The Gilded Age".
Who is Mark Twain?
This man was assassinated to begin WWI?
Who is Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand?
The electric light bulb.
Who was Thomas Edison?
Despite walking on "on untrodden ground," he was the only president inaugurated in two different cities.
Who is George Washington?
This president served during World War I and advocated for the League of Nations in his famous "Fourteen Points"
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Tycoon of the oil industry.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This type of boat destroyed the Lusitania.
What is a u-boat/submarine?
The telephone.
Who was Alexander Graham Bell?
During the final months of his presidency, as multiple southern states began seceding from the Union, he did nothing to intervene. His inaction gave the Confederacy time to organize.
Who is James Buchanan?
Succeeding Lincoln, this president became the first to be impeached, primarily due to conflicts over Reconstruction policies.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This act prohibited immigration by Chinese laborers, limited the civil rights of Chinese immigrants already in the United States, and forbade the naturalization of Chinese residents.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The US entered the war this year.
What is 1917?
This electric inventor contributed knowledge and inventiveness to AC electric current, wireless communications and X-ray technology. He also had unrealized plans for inventions like the thought camera, the earthquake machine and the death ray.
Who is Nikola Tesla
This President (and winner of the Battle of New Orleans) was gifted with a 1400 lbs block of cheese on Feb. 22, 1837. He threw a party for the public to chow down.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
He was climbing in the Adirondacks when he was notified that Pres. McKinley was dying
Theodore Roosevelt
Point of entry into the U.S. for Asian immigrants. Took weeks or month to be process..
What is the Angel Island?
This organization was formed after the war to help prevent future world wars.
What is the League of Nations?
Inventors Solomon G. Brown, Joseph Henry, Samuel F.B. Morse, and Alfred Vail created their own version of this. The first electrical telecommunications system.
What is a Telegraph
Of the 1st 7 presidents, only these 2 were not re-elected
Who are John Adams & John Quincy Adams?
7 U.S. Presidents were born in the state of Ohio, beginning with this man who entered West Point in 1839
Who is U.S Grant?
These were government-directed attacks against Jewish citizens, property, and villages in tsarist Russia, beginning in the 1880s. It was a primary reason for Russian Jewish migration to the United States.
What were Pogroms
This treaty was imposed upon Germany at the conclusion of the war.
What is the treaty of Versailles?
Cyrus McCormick.
What was the mechanical reaper?
Some historians call the election in which this man beat John Breckinridge the most important in U.S. history
Who is Lincoln?
The nation’s nineteenth president whose single term lasted from 1877 to 1881. He was the first president to travel to the West Coast, the first to have a telephone and typewriter in the White House, and he was the first and only president whose disputed election was decided by a congressional commission. And he initiated the annual Easter Egg Roll on the White House lawn.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?