This ship exploded in Havana Harbor on Feb 15, 1898 and sparked a conflict between the US and Spain.
What is the USS Maine?
100
Using sensational and exaggerated headlines to sway the reader's opinion
What is yellow journalism?
100
Devotion to one's country
What is nationalism?
100
Strikers at the Haymarket Riot were primarily concerned with earning _______ _______ and _______ _______
What is less work and more pay
200
The expansion of larger countries in to smaller countries for the purpose of creating a larger empire
What is imperialism?
200
This is a tax on imported goods
What is a tariff?
200
The belief that God has "chosen" us to expand across the continent and become the greatest country on earth
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
Most immigrants to America between 1850 and 1900 came from which continent?
What is Europe?
300
The U.S. gained these three territories after the signing of the Treaty of Paris
What is Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam?
300
Since the 1500s, Cuba had been colonized by this country
What is Spain?
300
Term for small countries in Latin America that export millions of natural resources to the U.S.
What are banana republics?
300
Provide at least three characteristics of a tenement home
Low-cost, dark, filth, poor sanitation, poor safety, cramped, no comfort, no fresh air, disease infested
400
Provide at least four (4) reasons for why the U.S. went to war with Spain in 1898
What is Spain's treatment of the Cuban rebels/yellow journalism; the desire to expand our empire/imperialism; the desire for the natural resources on the island of Cuba/economic interests; the explosion of the USS Maine; de Lome letter; violation of the Monroe Doctrine
400
The US Supreme Court upheld the decision that public facilities can be "separate but equal" in this infamous court case
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
400
Homer Plessy violated the Separate Car Act when he attempted to board a "whites only" train car in this state
What is Louisiana?
400
DAILY DOUBLE! MAKE YOUR WAGER NOW
This resolution was passed by US Congress in 1898 stating that the US desired no authority over Cuba and wished to grant the island its independence at the end of the Span-Am War
500
This was a policy enforced by the US which stated that no European country shall interfere in the affairs of countries in the Western Hemisphere
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
500
Theodore Roosevelt led this group of volunteer men up San Juan Hill to defeat the Spanish and remove them from Cuba
Who were the Rough Riders?
500
This is the name of an book written by Jacob Riis, seeking to expose tenement life in New York City and the effects of poverty in the Lower East Side
What is How The Other Half Lives?
500
This theory says that animal species evolve over time to adapt to their environment through natural selection.