Term given to news reporting that is sensationalized, exaggerated or made up.
What is Yellow Journalism
100
Teddy Roosevelt refused to shoot this animal, it only made him more popular.
What is a bear
100
Name an issues that caused the average working person trouble in 1890-1910
What is hours, wages, working conditions, worker safety, child labor, etc.
100
Term given to WWI prior to 1939
What is the Great War, or the War to End All Wars
100
Name in years when the Great War started and finished
What is 1914-1918
200
What two bodies of water did the Panama Canal connect?
What is the Atlantic or Caribbean and the Pacific
200
Which empire was seen as the weakest and the easiest to defeat for new territory
What is Spain
200
Term for the new breed of investigative journalists that examined areas of society that need fixing.
What are Muckrakers
200
This man's assassination in Sarajevo in 1914
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand
200
This insect was responsible for spreading Malaria and Yellow Fever in the tropics. It's control helped the USA complete the Panama Canal
What is the mosquito
300
The term for businesses that controlled a all or a specific portion of their enterprises. Also a popular board game.
What is monopoly
300
The Spanish American War was helped into existence by the explosion of this ship in Havana harbor
What is the Maine
300
This is the term Mark Twain gave to the country based how awesome it looked until you got up close and saw the gritty truth
What is the Gilded Age
300
The sinking of this ship with the loss of American life helped draw the USA into war
What is the Lusitania
300
The USA stayed out of WWI for the most part on the words of this president
Who was George Washington
400
Reason the USA sought new territory at the end of the 1800s
What is economic expansion, access to China, coal stations
400
Teddy Roosevelt became a hero after charging up this hill during the Mexican American War
What is San Juan
400
Upton Sinclair wrote about the struggles of immigrants in Chicago, readers were more concerned with the unsanitary conditions of the meatpacking industry in this 1906 novel.
What is The Jungle
400
Of the following countries, which was the USA not allied with:
France, England, Germany, Russia.
What is Germany
400
This day is celebrated on Nov 11th as the end of WWI, it is celebrated in the USA as
What is Veteran's Day
500
The term yellow journalism came from this
What is the comic strip character "Yellow Kid"
500
Of the following, which is not a territory the US gained during the Mexican American War.
Philippines, Guam, Cuba, Columbia, Puerto Rico
What is Columbia
500
Name three of the possible ingredients likely to be found in pantent medicines prior to 1906
What are opium, cocaine, alcohol, marijuana, toxins, etc.
500
Name three inventions used during WWI
What are poison gas, tanks, planes, artillery, machine guns, submarines
500
The first attempt at creating a United Nations type organization collapsed after the USA suggested it, then refused to join.