Presidents
This U.S. President is known for his "Square Deal" and legacy as a trustbuster.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
This Pacific island was taken over by Americans as an act of imperialism, removing Queen Lili'uokalani from power.
What is Hawaii?
These three countries formed the Triple Alliance (name one).
What is Germany?
What is Italy?
What is Austria-Hungary?
This is the color of the "Scare" that created a fear of communism and immigrants.
What is red?
This was the form of diplomacy used by Taft; it involved using financial power rather than military power.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
This is the president assassinated in 1901.
Who is William McKinley?
This country was asked by Germany ally against the United States, an action which brought America into WWI.
What is Mexico?
This civilian ship was sunk by the Germans, killing around 1,200 people, including 128 Americans.
What is the Lusitania?
This amendment outlawed the selling and transport of "intoxicating liquors".
What is the 18th Amendment?
This was the name of the tragedy that occurred in a factory in New York, killing 145 workers and leading to new restrictions on work and building codes.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
This president wanted to "make the world safe for democracy".
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This is the place where the treaty that ended WWI was signed.
What is Versailles/The Palace of Versailles
These three countries formed the Triple Entente (name two).
What is Russia?
What is Britain?
What is France?
This is the full name of the ERA, a proposed piece of legislation that would give men and women the same amount of protection under the law.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment?
These were the "Three C's" that Teddy Roosevelt described. (Name one).
What are:
Conservation of natural resources?
Control of corporations?
Consumer protection?
These two cities were the center of organized crime in America during the 1920s.
What are New York and Chicago?
The U.S. declared war against this country for two immediate causes:
Support for Cuban independence
The explosion of the U.S.S. Maine
What is Spain?
This bill limited the number of foreigners allowed into the United States.
What is the Immigration Act of 1924?
This political change would place laws on the ballot for final approval by the people, especially laws that had been put in place through deals between legislatures and big business.
What is a referendum?
This is the place where the book The Jungle - a book that exposed unsanitary conditions in slaughterhouses and stockyards - took place.
What is Chicago?
This is the name of the group of U.S. ships that sailed around the world on the orders of Theodore Roosevelt.
What is the Great White Fleet?
These people were the two automotive titans of the 1920s, founding Ford and General Motors, respectively.
Who are Henry Ford and Alfred Sloan?
This SCOTUS decision held that limits to working time violated the 14th Amendment. The decision has since been overturned.
What is Lochner v. New York?