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Many Americans, then and now, preferred this policy of staying out of world affairs and remaining "hands off."
What is Isolationism?
100

For this type of society, the focus is on cultivating land (and farming).

What is "agrarian"?

100
Henry Ford pioneered this process, combining assembly lines and standardized parts to produce larger quantities of goods.
What is Mass Production?
100
The explosion on this ship was blamed on Spain, and led to a declaration of war.
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
100

Though lumberjacks and horror movie killers love it, this invention was originally intended to assist doctors with surgery - especially in getting through harder bones.

What is the chainsaw?

200
While slums were not segregated, these neighborhoods were - primarily for Spanish speakers.
What are barrios?
200

Under "Industrialization" a society's focus is shifted to this.

What is "the manufacturing of goods"?

200
He was the inventor of the telephone, although his first call was only from one room to another.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
200
This Secretary of the Navy resigned his job so that he could lead the Rough Riders to victory in Cuba.
Who is Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt?
200

Morbidly, over 150 frozen, dead bodies are still found on the path to this peak, with many routinely used as trail markers by climbers navigating it.

What is Mount Everest?

300
Immigrants going through Ellis Island were questioned about relatives, plans, and these two areas.
What are health and occupation?
300

During a famous strike of 1899, children in New York stopped selling these as a form of protest against increased prices.

What are newspapers?
300
The "Wizard of Menlo Park" not only invented the electric light bulb, but also the motion picture camera, and these two inventions.
What are the battery and the phonograph?
300
An example of Dollar Diplomacy, this policy in China led to an armed revolt.
What is the Open-Door Policy?
300

While many find wombats cute, they are, weirdly, the only animal on Earth that has poop that is this shape.

What is a cube?
400
Many immigrants were forced to work in sweat shops - workplaces characterized by these three things.
What are long hours, low wages, and unsafe conditions?
400

Other than schedule and benefits, these are two primary focus points of Unions.

What are wages and safety?

400
It was at this city in North Carolina that Orville and Wilbur Wright first successfully tested their airplane.
What is Kittyhawk?
400
Yellow Journalism relies on sensational, biased, and this type of reporting - much like modern click-bait.
What is false reporting?
400

At 112.4 decibels, Neville Sharp from Australia produced the loudest one of these ever recorded.

What is a burp?

500
While Ellis Island processed immigrants on the East Coast, for the Japanese and Chinese, they went through this island - in San Francisco Bay.
What is Angel Island?
500

During a Coal Mining Strike in this State, under the orders of "Robber Baron" Rockefeller, the National Guard killed 21 men, women, and children.

What is Colorado?

500

Samuel Clemens was the writer that coined the phrase "The Gilded Age," though THIS was the pseudo-name he used for writing.

What is "Mark Twain"?

500

He was the famous Commodore (and later Admiral) who sunk all but four Spanish vessels in two hours during the Battle of Manila Bay.

Who is Commodore George Dewey?

500

This is the only planet in our Solar System that spins clockwise (all the rest spin counter-clockwise), meaning on it the Sun would rise in the West and set in the East (don't you love it?)

What is Venus?