This group of "soldiers" (Harvard Educated Cowboys) were led by Teddy Roosevelt and made a name for themselves at San Juan Hill in the Spanish American War.
Who are the Rough Riders
100
Followed Teddy Roosevelt as president in 1908
Who is William Taft
100
The sinking of this ship in 1915 caused emotions to run high in the United States and Woodrow Wilson to come close to breaking neutrality during WWI.
What is the Lusitania
100
Woodrow Wilson's proposal for peace at the end of WWI
What are the Fourteen Points
100
Secret bars and taverns of the prohibition era turned into establishments most known as
What are speakeasies
200
This was the name for the diplomacy Teddy Roosevelt used when dealing with foreign nations. It was also his excuse to enlarge the navy and army.
What is Big Stick diplomacy
200
Muckraker famous for exposing the harsh realities of lower class life in New York City with photography.
Who is Jacob Riis
200
This 1912 presidential candidate favored the more traditional Republican approach to higher tariffs, less reform, and bigger business.
Who is William Taft
200
This letter promised Texas, New Mexico, and California to be given back to Mexico if they would ally with the Germans.
What is the Zimmerman Note
200
Most well known gangster of the 1920s, Chicago, St. Valentine's day massacre, was finally arrested on tax evasion
Who is Al Capone
300
Made a name for himself in the battle of Manilla Bay in the Philippines during the Spanish American War.
Who is Admiral George Dewey
300
Upton Sinclair is most known for writing this book, causing an uproar in the disgusting and unsanitary production, packing, and shipping of meat.
What is "The Jungle"
300
This 1912 presidential candidate was a socialist, received almost 1 million votes, but no electoral votes
Who is Eugene Debbs
300
Group of countries proposed by Wilson that would police the world into peace
What is the League of Nations
300
Teacher who refused to not teach evolution in public school, was tried in the famous Monkey Trial in Dayton, TN.
Who is John T. Scopes
400
This tariff made it more expensive to import sugar from Hawaii because it was not a state yet, causing many in the islands to push for statehood at the end of the 19th Century.
What is the McKinley Tariff
400
Taft's foreign relations idea to encourage businesses to invest in foreign markets, causing interest to grow in those areas of the world. If violence or instability arose, Taft would then be pushed to use U.S. strength.
What is Dollar Diplomacy
400
Germany's promise that they would not sink American ships without warning.
What is the Sussex Pledge
400
Killed 20 Germans and captured 132 single handedly on the southern front at the end of WWI
Who is Alvin York
400
Lawyer who prosecuted John T. Scopes in the "Scopes Monkey Trial"
Who is William Jennings Bryan
500
Name the two journalists most famous for "Yellow Journalism". One being the name of an award, and the other being famous for the quote, "You provide the pictures. I'll provide the war."
Who are William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer
500
This court case determined women and children to be weaker causing the government to be able to regulate work place conditions.
What is Muller vs. Oregon
500
Name the 3 promises that Woodrow Wilson went after and accomplished during his first term of being president
What are trusts, banks, and tariff
500
Many were arrested and jailed for speaking out against the war effort because of these acts
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts
500
Leader from Harlem who founded the United Negro Improvement Association to promote the resettlement of American blacks in their own "African homeland"