17, 18, and 19

Progressive Era

100

To change or make improvements to the government, workplace, education, etc.

Reform

200

Double Jeopardy: These two companies were broken apart by using the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

Standard Oil and Northern Security RR

300

This agency is dedicated to regulating the Railroads.

Interstate Commerce Commission

400

Double Jeopardy: Explain what a muckraker is and list one example of a Muckraker.

Some one who exposes a social issue to the public and gives it awareness so that it can be fixed or changed.

500

What 2 candidates does Wilson defeat in the election of 1912?

Taft and Roosevelt

Imperialism

100

Double Jeopardy: Explain Imperialism

Policy of extending a country's power or boundaries.

200

This US naval vessel exploded off the coast of Cuba.

USS Maine

300

Sensationalized news stories that are meant to sell papers to the public.

Yellow Journalism

400

Secretary of State John Hay wrote these to achieve open trade with China.

Open-Door Letters

500

This policy is the opposite of Imperialism: Name what this foreign policy is called, explain what president followed it, and how it impacted the US at the beginning of WWI

Isolationism

WWI

100

What countries made up the central powers.

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire

200

This archduke's assassination set off a chain of events that lead to WWI.

Franz Ferdinand

300

This transatlantic liner's sinking caused many Americans to want to join WWI.

Lusitania

400

This message to Germany forced Woodrow Wilson to enter WWI.

The Zimmerman Telegram

500

Double Jeopardy: Explain trench warfare and how the new technology of the war created this new style of fighting.

Two entrenched areas (larges ditches/tunnels below ground), heavy artillery behind each trench, no man's land in between. Battles could last weeks/months, conditions were very difficult.

Individuals

100

This individual became President after McKinley's assassination.

Teddy Roosevelt

200

Emperor of Germany, instigator of WWI.

Kaiser Wilhelm II

300

President who created the 14 points.

Woodrow Wilson

400

Declared war with Spain after the USS Maine exploded.

William McKinley

500

Photographer who exposed the wealthy to how the "other half lived" through vivid photos of children in the streets.

Jacob Riis

Misc.

100

These two states were annexed in the 1800's, one of which was "seward's folly".

Hawaii and Alaska

200

Roosevelt's Corrollary bounced off of this previous foreign policy.

Monroe Doctrine

300

This massive construction project was started after TR helped a revolution in the same country.

Panama Canal

400

Nickname given to US soldiers in WWI.

Doughboys

500

This law reorganized the US into 12 financial districts and created the federal reserve.

Federal Reserve Act