Words to Know
Issues
Purposeful People
Global Reach
Miscellaneous
100

an attempt to overthrow a government

coup

100

An issue around wanting to use silver to create coins

Free silver

100

Assassinated American President

William McKinley

100

1898

The year the Spanish American war took place

100

This gives US citizens the right to repeal (take away) a law that their legislators have passed already.

Referendum

200

news stories written with exaggerations and even untruths in an effort to sell more papers

Yellow Journalism

200

A group of people who wanted to impose government forced change on America in an effort to improve it

Progressives.

200

Opposed William McKinley in the election of 1896

William Jennings Bryan

200

In which conquered territory did the people fight against the Americans for its independence?

The Philippines

200

This gives US citizens a way to remove an elected official from office before his/her term is over.

Recall

300

a large area of a country's influence/control

Empire

300

Alfred Thayer Mahan wanted America to have  this

A strong navy

300

This person was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor (posthumously) for his actions at San Juan Hill

Theodore Roosevelt

300

The US called for an "open door policy" with which country?

China

300

This allows American citizens to put forth ideas to be written into law.

Initiative

400

when people are separated into groups based on their ethnicity or culture

segregation

400

a group in America who was opposed to America ruling over other nations and expanding them to become American territories/states

Anti Imperialism League

400

Leader of the Rough Riders in Cuba

Theodore Roosevelt

400

Roosevelt expanded the role of the US by building this between 1903-1914

Panama Canal

400

Roosevelt employed these government officials to break up large conglomerations of companies that were cornering markets and driving prices too high for consumers. (HINT- Who ya gonna call?)

Trust busters

500

fees added to imported goods to make them more expensive than goods produced in our country so that people are more likely to buy American made things to keep our economy strong

tariffs

500
Upton Sinclair's book THE JUNGLE exposed this problem in American industry

Filthy conditions in meat processing

500

In the Philippines, this American commodore sun or captured every single vessel of the Spanish fleet

George Dewey

500
The 16 white battleships of the US Navy were known as this1

The Great White Fleet

500

In the Spanish American War, the US gained these 3 territories.

Guam, Cuba, Puerto Rico