Presidents
World War I
Civil War
Expansion
Artists and writers
100

This President fought in Cuba during the Spanish-American War as a leader of the "Rough Riders".

Teddy Roosevelt

100

Most of the over 25,000 miles of trenches were in this country during World War I.

France

100

Bloodiest day of the entire Civil War.

Antietam 

100

The idea that America should expand west from "Sea to shining sea.

manifest destiny

100

This photographer/writer exposed the poor living conditions of tenements in his book How The Other Half Lives.

Jacob Riis

200

This President won on the slogan "He kept us out of the War."

Woodrow Wilson

200

The first nation to declare war in World War I.

Austro-Hungarian Empire

200

This battle gave control of the Mississippi River to the North.

Vicksburg

200

This victory granted America the southwest and California.

Mexican-American War

200

“I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land”  was a quote from this anti-imperialist.

Mark Twain

300

This President was known as a "Trust Buster" because he tried to break up monopolies.

Teddy Roosevelt

300

This country mainly wanted money at the Paris Conference which determined the future of Germany after being defeated in World War I.

Great Britain, England

300

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Official "Spark" of the Civil War.


300

This was signed by Lincoln and provided families with 160 acres of free surveyed public land for a minimal filing fee.

Homestead Act

300

The History of Standard Oil Company, which exposed the dealings of John D. Rockefeller, was written by this muckraker.

Ida Tarbell

400

This President wanted to be lenient on the South during the Reconstruction after the Civil War.

Abraham Lincoln

400

This German pilot had 80 kills in his WWI career.

The Red Baron

400

Name advantages the North had over the South in the Civil War.

Industry, Population, Railroads, Communication, $$, the draft

400

The Native American victory at Little Bighorn, also known as Custer's Last Stand, was led by this American Indian leader.

Sitting Bull

400

This woman, a muckraker, wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, which exposed the North to the horrible treatment of slaves in the South.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

500

Name three Presidents who were shot by assassins while in office before 1920.

Teddy Roosevelt, McKinley, Lincoln

500

This Serbian assassinated Arch Duke Ferdinand while on a visit to Serbia.

Gavrilo Princip

500

Abraham Lincoln defeated this democrat in the election of 1860.

Steven Douglas

500

This territory gained in the Spanish-American War was considered the ,"bridge to Asia."

Philippines 

500

Famous photographer of the Civil War.

Mathew brady