This was a time when wealthy people lived very well and spent a great deal of money. (page 274)
What is the Gilded age?
100
This Naval Officer led U.S. warships to Japan in 1853. (page 293)
Who is Commodore Matthew Perry?
100
This is the year that the "Great War" started in Europe. (page 310)
What is the year 1914?
100
Some businesspeople gave these to government officials to get what they wanted. (page 275)
What is a bribe?
100
This was the name of the special army unit that Theodore Roosevelt led in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. (page 299)
What is the Rough Riders?
200
They included poverty, unsafe working conditions, and unclean food. (page 279)
What is problems faced by the United States in the early 1900s?
200
This law made Puerto Rico a U.S. territory in 1917. (page 300)
What is the Jones Act of 1917?
200
The first version of this machine was made of wood, and it was invented about ten years before World war I began. (page 313)
What is the airplane?
200
Some Americans blamed rich people for many of the country's problems and said that this system did not work. (page 279)
What is capitalism?
200
This is the year that the United States annexed or took possession of Hawaii. page 295)
What is 1898?
300
This was another name for the Progressive Party and the name was inspired by Theodore Roosevelt. (page 284)
What is the Bull Moose Party?
300
On February 15, 1898, this U.S. battleship exploded in Havana Harbor killing 260 American sailors. page 298)
What is the Maine?
300
This city is located in a country that remained neutral (did not support either side) during World War I. (map on page 312)
What is Madrid, Spain?
300
Upton Sinclair wrote a book about unclean practices in the meat packing industry. This is the term used to describe writers like Upton Sinclair. (page 280)
What is muckraker?
300
This act said that people who wanted government jobs had to take a test that showed whether or not they had the needed skills and knowledge to do the job. (page 277)
What is the Civil Service Act?
400
This is the year that New York gained full suffrage which meant that women could now vote. (page 286)
What is the year 1917?
400
This war was fought in the Philippine Islands and in Cuba and gave the United States control of Cuba and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean, and the Philippines and other islands in the Pacific. (page 299)
What is the Spanish-American War?
400
This ship was sunk on May 7, 1915 by a German submarine. (page 316)
What is the British ocean liner Lusitania?
400
President Taft supported this because it meant that the rich would have to pay more than the poor to support the government. (page 284)
What is income tax?
400
This was the best place in the Pacific for American trading ships headed to Japan and China to stop for fuel. (page 293)
What is Pearl Harbor?
500
This change to the U.S. Constitution made it illegal to sell or transport alcohol in the United States. (page 287)
What is the Eighteenth Amendment?
500
This massive building project in Central America made the United States one of the most powerful nations on earth because the U.S. now controlled the shortest route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. (page 304)
What is the Panama Canal?
500
These were pieces of paper sold by the U.S. government in order to pay for the war.
What is war bonds?
500
A person who is this would have definitely been against invading Iraq in 2003. (page 292)
What is an isolationist?
500
He shot down 22 enemy planes and 4 enemy balloons and was the leading U.S. war ace during World War I. (page 313)