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100

President who led the "Rough Riders" & introduced the "Square Deal" reforms

Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt

100

Immigrants who worked on the Transcontinental Railroad were mainly from this country...

China

100

What event started America's war with Spain?

Sinking of the USS Maine

100

What were women who protested for their right to vote called?

Suffragettes

100

Holiday celebrating the end of slavery in the United States

Juneteenth

200

General who led Confederate forces in Virginia

Robert E. Lee

200

Kingdom that was overthrown by the Dole Pineapple Company

Hawaii

200

What ship was sunk by German U-Boats that angered Americans

RMS Lusitania

200

Which movie is credited with reviving the Ku Klux Klan?

Birth of a Nation
200

The word for someone who dies & becomes a symbol for a cause

martyr

300

Which President signed laws to criminalize the Ku Klux Klan

Ulysses S. Grant
300

Name at least 3 countries targeted in the Banana Wars

Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Colombia, Venezuela

300
Large gun that shoots explosive bullets long range

Artillery

300

What are three reasons immigrants could be denied from the United States

contagious diseases, mental illness, physical disability, inability to work

300

What did the Pure Food & Drug act make companies do?

Put ingredients on labels

400

Woman who organized the 1913 Washington March & the "Silent Sentinels" protests

Alice Paul

400

Camp where hundreds of Lakota were killed after doing the Ghost Dance

Wounded Knee

400

What was promised in the Zimmermann Telegram

Germany promising to help Mexico invade America and retake the Southwest

400

Who argued that African-Americans should focus on immediate Civil Rights in the 1890s

W.E.B. DuBois

400

What is a monopoly and how does it negatively impact consumers AND give an example of a monopoly from history

One person or industry controlling an entire resource & industry.

Controls pricing & demand

500

President who made a deal with the South to end Reconstruction

Rutherford B. Hayes

500

What are the three colonies taken by United States from Spain

Puerto Rico, Philippines, Guam

500

What countries were the "Allies" during World War One. There are 5 core allies.

United States, France, Britain, Russia, Italy

500

Describe the case & decision of Plessy v. Ferguson

A Black man rides a "whites-only" train car and is arrested, church decides segregation is legal if both facilities are equal
500

What are the three Civil Rights Amendments, and what did they change in America?

13th Amendment- Ends slavery

14th Amendment- Birthright citizenship

15th Amendment- Bans racial discrimination to vote