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Teddy Roosevelt created this addition to the Monroe Doctrine which warned European powers to stay out of Latin America, asserting the United States' role as a regional police power.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
100
Between 1915-1940 large groups of African Americans moved North.
What is the Great Migration?
100
The US gained which 3 territories through the signing of the 1898 Treaty of Paris after the end of the Spanish-American War?
What are the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam?
100
Publishing news that might not be true to gain sympathy for a cause.
What is Yellow Journalism?
100
This required mandatory conscription of men ages 21-30 and was expanded to include men ages 18-45 in 1918.
What is the Selective Service Act of 1917?
200
Weighing in at 300 pounds and standing only 6 feet tall, this man was and still is the largest US President of all time.
Who is William Howard Taft?
200
These two minority groups aided the war effort by taking on factory jobs.
Who are African Americans and Women?
200
Taft's Dollar Diplomacy intervened in this part of the World
What is Latin America?
200
Published in American Newspapers this 1917 message from Germany proposed an alliance with Mexico, offering financial support and the return of its "lost provinces," including Texas and Arizona.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
200
This is where the American Expeditionary Force broke the stalemate by breaking through German lines.
What is the Battle of Argonne Forest?
300
After his election in 1912 this US President would become famous for his 14 points.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
300
Panel 59 of Jacob Lawrence's The Migration Series shows Black Americans orderly waiting in line for this right in the North, contrasting with the disenfranchisement faced in the South. 
What is Voting?
300
This man-made structure helped connect two oceans during US Imperialism.
What is the Panama Canal?
300
Breaking News: The RMS Lusitania sunk!
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
300
These innovations created a war of attrition leading to a stalemate on the western front.
What are Machine Guns and Poison Gas?
400
This U.S. naval officer advocated for a strong navy and wrote The Influence of Sea Power Upon History.
Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan?
400
This court case deemed segregation to be legal as long as it is was Separate but Equal.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
400
This 1901 policy stated that the U.S. had the right to intervene in Cuba’s affairs and limited Cuba’s sovereignty.
What is the Platt Amendment?
400
This US ship was blown up by Spain during the Spanish American War, but was later discovered that a fire within the ship caused the explosion.
What is the USS Maine?
400
This invention appeared impervious to Machine Guns.
What are Tanks?
500
This man took "regulars" and trained them into an elite fighting force.
Who is General John J. Pershing?
500
These laws established in the southern part of the US deliberately Segregated the South.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
500
The US and European powers created this policy over access to the Chinese markets for goods.
What is Open Door Policy?
500
This was Wilson's 14th point that was adopted in the Treaty of Versailles.
What is the League of Nations?
500
This 1903 lofty invention made by a set of American Brothers lead to a tactical advantage for the allies.
What is the airplane?