What President is associated with the famous words, "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”?
Theodore Roosevelt
100
Who founded the American Red Cross?
Clara Barton
100
What is the name of the event that occurred in 1911 when a fire caused the deaths of approximately 150 women workers because they were locked in the building and had no fire escapes?
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
100
What was the belief that the U.S was fated to reach from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean?
Manifest Destiny
100
What was the name of the international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations?
League of Nations
200
What well known President said these words?-
"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words, Ich bin ein Berliner."
John F. Kennedy
200
Who is the United States writer of a novel (Uncle Toms Cabin) about slavery that advanced the abolitionists' cause?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
200
What was given name for writers of popular, in-depth, investigative stories about corruption in business and government as well as the horrible conditions of slums?
Muckrakers
200
What act was intended to give poor Easterner's a chance to own land in the West? The act included 160 acres of free land to Americans who wanted to be apart of the western expansion movement.
Homestead Act
200
Which British passenger boat sunk by a German submarine that claimed 1,000 lives. One of main reasons US decided to join the war?
Lusitania
300
Who said,"My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country."
John F. Kennedy
300
This women's rights activist played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement.
Susan B. Anthony
300
What was the organization founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in 1890 that fought for women's rights and suffrage?
National American Woman Suffrage Association(NAWSA)
300
What was the name of the U.S. purchase of Arizona and parts of Utah from Mexico?
Gadsden Purchase
300
What were the series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after World War I called?
Wilson's 14 Points
400
Who said “Give me liberty, or give me death!”?
Patrick Henry
400
What American Women wrote the article "The Feminine Mystique" which was an account of housewives' lives in which they subordinated their own aspirations to the needs of men?
Betty Friedan
400
Who was one of the first photojournalists who wrote articles about tenement life and published How the Other Half Lives in 1890.
Jacob Riis
400
Which agreement attempted to prevent the spread of slavery into any territory acquired from Mexico?
Wilmot Proviso
400
Which Archduke of Austria Hungary was assassinated at Sarajevo by a Serbian terrorist group called the Black Hand whose death was a main cause for World War I?
Franz Ferdinand
500
What scientist said these words? -
“I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”
J. Robert Oppenheimer
500
Which Puritan woman spread her own interpretations of the Bible, leading to the Antinomian Controversy in the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
Anne Hutchinson
500
Who was the first director of the U.S Forest Service and was in charge of the National Conservation Commission set up by Roosevelt and was liked and respected by the Progressives?
Gifford Pinchot
500
Where were the Southern Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians were massacred by a band of Colonel John Chivington’s Colorado volunteers on Nov. 29, 1864?
Sand Creek
500
What strategy was drawn up by Germany to avoid fighting on two fronts?