Western Expansion
Industry/Gilded Age
Imperialism, WWI
Progressive/Roaring 20s
Presidents
100
The earliest settlers to the West went in search of a quick fortune by finding this.
What is Gold/Silver?
100
A company that owns or controls an entire business.
What is a trust/monopoly?
100
Americans who desired war over Spain's treatment of Cuba would have been known to chant this slogan.
What is "Remember the Maine, and to Hell with Spain"?
100
This amendment finally grant suffrage to women.
What is the 19th?
100
Trustbusting, Roughriding, Bullypulpit, Bull Moose
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
200
The rising price of this and the expansion of the railroads led to the driving of these by cowboys.
What is cattle?
200
The problem with this law was that it had no clear definition of "trust".
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
200
These two states joined the Union due to US Imperialism.
What are Alaska and Hawaii?
200
This presidential election featured a "bull moose", Socialist convict, the country's fattest president, and the first legitimate Democrat in decades.
What is the Election of 1912?
200
Succeeded an assassinated Warren G. Harding, hardly ever spoke, pro-business, lost a son in office.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
300
This crop became the most popular with sodbusters on the Great Plains.
What is wheat?
300
While some might have called industrialists "Captains of Industry," their workers and journalists would be more apt to describe the as this.
What is Robber Barons?
300
This is term used to describe the media's manipulation of facts and making up of facts to influence public opinion and policy.
What is yellow journalism?
300
This act was passed to enforce the 18th Amendment.
What is the Volstead Act?
300
First Democrat elected since 1892, progressive governor of New Jersey, WWI, League of Nations
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
400
This invention ended the cattle boom and contributed to the "closing" of the West.
What is barbed wire?
400
In the early 1900s, this person, not the elected officials, ran the city.
What is the City Boss?
400
The biggest problem that Americans had with the Treaty of Versailles involved this.
What is the League of Nations?
400
Fundamentalism met science in the trial of this TN teacher accused of teaching evolution.
Who is John T. Scopes?
400
Looked like a president, Ohio Gang, turned the White House into a frat house, died in office.
Who is Warren G. Harding?
500
This is the sentiment of many that it was God's will for the US to encompass the entire continent from Atlantic to Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
500
In the case of many cities like Galveston, TX and Dayton, OH, these led to the reform of corrupt city governments.
What are natural disasters?
500
Citizens in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California began to support entering the war after the interception of this.
What is the Zimmerman Note?
500
The first Red Scare proved deadly for these Italian, anarchists who were accused of murder in Massachusetts.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
500
Had his own Tariff, assassinated by Charles Guiteau
Who is William McKinley?
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