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What did the Progressives feel the best tool to solve many of society's problems was?

Government

100

This event rallied many Americans to want a war with Spain.

Explosion of the Maine

100

This man's death kicks off the first world war.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

100

Germany's use of these is seen as a motivating factor for America entering the war.

Submarines- Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

100

Lack of jobs for returning soldiers caused this to escalate into full blown riots after the war.

Racial Tension

100

What president had the shortest presidency with only 31 days in office before he died?

William Henry Harrison

200

Upton Sinclair's work shocked the country into demanding better sanitation in the food industry. What was his original goal with The Jungle?

Better conditions for workers

200

This type of sensationalist reporting convinced Americans to want a war with Spain.

Yellow Journalism

200

Wilson's League of Nations was an organization devoted to what?

World Peace

200

This intercepted transmission spilled the beans on Germany's intention during the war.

Zimmerman Note/Telegram

200

The widespread fear of communism in the U.S. was triggered by a surge in these.

Labor Strikes

200

What country singer stirred up controversy with his song, Try That in a Small Town in 2023? CMT pulled the song from rotation just after three days on air. 

Jason Aldean

300

This person used photography to expose the horrors of child labor.

Lewis Hine

300

Our actions in this country pull us into a war with Spain

Cuba

300

World War I officially comes to an end with the creation of this document.

Treaty of Versailles

300

This 1918 amendment to the Espionage Act made it a crime to use "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the U.S. government, flag, or military during wartime.

The Sedition Act

300

The end of WWI saw the fall of these three giant empires.

German, Austro-Hungarian, and The Ottoman Empire

300

In 2023, the NBA superstar Lebron James surpassed what other basketball player MVP to become the all-time leading scorer in NBA history?

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

400

This person was imprisoned for her actions in the pursuit of women getting the vote.

Alice Paul

400

This imperialist idea focused on spreading British culture and language

Anglo-Saxon Superiority 

400

The Russian Revolution saw the rise to power of this group.

Bolsheviks/Communists/Soviets

400

Driven by wartime labor shortages in the North and the desire to escape Jim Crow laws in the South, this mass movement saw approximately 6 million African Americans relocate to Northern and Western cities starting around 1916.   

The Great Migration

400

What was the only thing that was deadlier than WWI in the 1910s?

The Spanish Flu

400

Although he is often the only official member of the band in the studio, this multi-instrumentalist won an Oscar for scoring The Social Network and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as the frontman of Nine Inch Nails.

Trent Reznor

500

Why was women's suffrage especially "troublesome" in the South?

Grant black women the vote/Double the black vote

500

What two nations were of imperialist interest to the United States?

Cuba & Hawaii

500

This REGION was considered the "powder keg" of Europe and happens to be the place where WWI begins.

The Balkans

500

This campaign slogan was used by Wilson's reelection campaign in 1916.

'He kept us out of the war.'

500

Millions of people were killed during WWI, but the war brought about the figurative death of this era in American History.

The Progressive Era

500

Although he didn’t appear on screen in the original 1988 film after the opening scene, this Oscar-nominated actor provided the iconic, raspy voice of Chucky for seven consecutive films.

Brad Dourif