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Spare Change
100
This was a businessman who made his fortune in the oil industry, controlling the most extensive integrated oil operations ever owned by an individual in the United States.
John D. Rockefeller
100
This country was blamed for the U.S.S. Maine exploding in 1898.
Spain
100
This refers to the transportation of illegal alcohol into the United States.
Rum-running
100
This was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist that led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans in history.
Andrew Carnegie
100
This amendment later removed the 18th amendment from the Constitution of the United States in 1933.
21st amendment
100
List all countries apart of the Entente Powers at the start of World War I.
Serbia
Russia
France
Great Britain
100
This 2003 holiday movie stars Will Ferrell as a human raised by elves at the North Pole.
Elf
200
This is the term used to describe a corrupt union of businesses and the federal, state, or local government.
Crony Capitalism
200
This Progressive era amendment helped combat corrupt political machines by giving Americans the power to vote for Senate representatives directly rather than by corruptible state legislatures.
17th amendment
200
This Progressive era amendment established the prohibition of alcohol in the United States in 1917.
18th amendment
200
The use of sensationalized stories and exaggerated headlines to attract readers
Yellow Journalism
200
This Progressive era amendment granted female suffrage in the United States in 1919
19th amendment
200
In an attempt to redistribute some of the disproportionate wealth, this Progressive era amendment made it legal to tax income.
16th amendment
200
This artist’s song 'Blinding Lights' broke records for the longest time spent on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
The Weeknd
300
This cultural movement during the 1920s focused on jazz music, African American literature, and visual arts.
Harlem Renaissance
300
This was an early-20th century act that banned or restricted immigration based on region and ethnicity; the targets of this act were mainly Asians, Jews, and Southern and Eastern Europeans.
Immigration Act of 1924
300
This is the term used to describe the action of searching out and publicizing scandalous information about famous people, groups, or institutions in an underhanded [secret] way?
Muckraking
300
This was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States of America that spanned the 1890s to the 1920s.
Progressive Era
300
List all countries apart of the Central Powers at the start of World War I.
Bulgaria
Austria-Hungary
Germany
Ottoman Empire
300
This was the ‘trustbuster’ American statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer, who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.
Theodore Roosevelt
300
This layer of gases surrounding Earth protects us from the sun’s harmful UV rays.
The ozone layer
400
The overall goal of Wilson's Fourteen Points.
To promote lasting peace and prevent future conflicts through international cooperation
400
The purpose of the Food & Drug Act; causing the creation of the Food & Drug Administration.
To ensure the safety, sanitation, and labeling of food and drugs sold in the United States
400
This 'amendment' allowed the United States to intervene in Cuban affairs and established a naval base at Guantanamo Bay.
Platt Amendment
400
To promote economic cooperation and reduce military intervention in Latin America; started by Franklin D. Roosevelt
Good Neighbor Policy
400
This was the only queen regnant and the last sovereign monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom, ruling from January 29, 1891, until the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom on January 17, 1893.
Queen Liliuokalani
400
The overall outcome of the Treaty of Versailles.
Harsh reparations and territorial losses imposed on Germany
400
The picture above is the opening frame of this movie.
Aladdin
500
List the causes of the United States joining World War I on the side of the Entente Powers. (Three)
- Anti-German Propaganda
- The Zimmerman Telegraph
- Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
500
This 1920s political scandal involved government officials accepting bribes in exchange for leasing federal oil reserves to private companies.
Teapot Dome Scandal
500
This was created to assert the right of the United States to intervene in Latin America to maintain stability and prevent European intervention
Roosevelt Corollary
500
This United States governmental body failed to secure ratification of the Versailles Treaty and League of Nations.
United States Senate
500
This is the term that characterizes a period of colonial expansion by Western European powers, the United States, Russia, and Japan during the late 19th and early 20th centuries that included a ‘civilizing’ element that ostensibly justified conquest.
New Imperialism
500
Central American countries with unstable governments, economically reliant on a single export and often influenced by foreign corporations.
Banana Republics
500
This is the only bird that can fly backwards.
Hummingbirds