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100
President who signed the Pacific Railway Acts in 1862/1864 to start building the Transcontinental railroad.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
This 1867 purchase from Russia added a massive northern territory to the U.S.
What is Alaska?
100
The 1876 Battle where Custer and his men were defeated but a coalition of Native Warriors.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
100
Man who represents the U.S. in most political cartoons (in this era).
Who is Uncle Sam?
100
These animals were hunted to near extinction, devastating plains tribes central food source.
What is the Buffalo (Bison)?
100
This invention ended the open range and restricted movement out West.
What is barbed wire?
100
This term describes forcing a group to give up their own culture and replace it with another.
What is assimilation?
100
Teddy Roosevelt summed up his foreign policy with this phrase, "Speak softly and carry a _________".
What is big stick?
200
President who supported constructing the Panama Canal and used Big Stick Diplomacy.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
200
This term justified U.S. belief that expansion west was inevitable.
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
War in which the U.S. inflicted torture techniques upon Filipinos in response to their guerilla tactics.
What is the Philippine-American War?
200
Central figure of this cartoon.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
200
Name of this grassy region of the U.S, once home to many Native American tribes.
What is the Great Plains?
200
Completed in 1869, this project linked the west and east coast in the United States speeding up travel and settlement.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
200
Location of the first Indian Industrial school in the United States, established in 1876.
What is Carlisle?
200
This belief, originally used to justify expanding west and taking Native lands, reappeared during U.S. overseas expansion.
What is manifest destiny?
300
President who oversaw the Battle of Little Bighorn and most Plains Wars in the 1870s.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
300
This Pacific island nation was annexed by the U.S. under President McKinley in 1898.
What is Hawaii?
300
Ship that exploded that caused an outcry in support for the Spanish-American War.
What is the USS Maine?
300
This political cartoon shows Uncle Sam using the Philippines as a stepping stone to this Asian country.
What is China?
300
These areas were set aside for Native Americans by the U.S. government, where many tribes were forced to relocate.
What are reservations?
300
Invented by Alfred Nobel, this replaced the use of dangerous Nitro-Glycerin in construction.
What is dynamite?
300
This phrase by Pratt summarized the assimilationist mission of the boarding schools: “Kill the Indian, ______________.”
What is "save the man"?
300
This war in 1898 gave the U.S. control of Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.
What is the Spanish-American War?
400
President elected in 1896 who embraced imperialism and annexed Hawaii, and was later assassinated in 1901.
Who is William McKinley?
400
This Caribbean Island became a U.S. protectorate after the Spanish-American War with the Platt Amendment.
What is Cuba?
400
The #1 killer of soldiers in the Spanish-American war.
What is disease? (DOUBLE: Name 2 of the diseases)
400
The thing being constructed in the political carton below.
What is the Panama Canal?
400
Every single one of these was broken by the U.S. government, especially if gold is discovered on the land.
What are treaties?
400
This engineering system implemented in the Panama Canal raises and lowers ships like elevators so they can cross the changing elevation of the land.
What are locks?
400
Name 3 things that native students at boarding schools were forced to change.
What is their Names, Hair, Clothing, Language, Religion, Traditions, Food, Identity?
400
Form of News Reporting that is over-exaggerated or sensationalized in order to sell more copies.
What is yellow journalism?
500
President who vetoed Hawaiian annexation before McKinley approved it.
Who is Grover Cleveland?
500
The Treaty of Paris following the Spanish-American War gave the U.S. gained these THREE island nations. (paying $20 for one)
What is the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam?
500
Both the Battle of Manila Bay and the Battle of Santiago Bay ended with this decisive outcome
What is the total defeat of the Spanish Navy/Fleet?
500
Female personification of the U.S. in this political cartoon.
Who is Columbia?
500
Any tribe that participated in the Native coalition in the Battle of Little Bighorn.
What are the Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Oglala, or Dakota?
500
Country that first attempted digging a canal in Panama from the Pacific Ocean to the Caribbean Sea.
What is France?
500
Wa-Tho-Huk, graduate of Carlisle Indian school and gold medal olympian.
Who is Jim Thorpe?
500
This U.S. policy declared that all nations, including the United States, should have equal trading rights in China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
600
President assassinated 4 months into his first term in 1881.
Who is James A. Garfield?
600
The United States acquired this Pacific island through a treaty with Germany and the United Kingdom, and it remains a U.S. territory today.
What is American Samoa?
600
During the Philippine-American War, U.S. soldiers used this brutal interrogation method that involved forcing water into a prisoner’s stomach.
What is the water cure?
600
Country in the cartoon that is being "misruled" by Spain. (hint: flag)
What is Cuba?
600
This federal law tried to civilize Native Americans by cutting up their land into individual farm plots (think checkerboard).
What is the Dawes Act?
600
This steel-hulled invention gave the U.S. a major upper hand in battle during the Spanish-American war.
What are steel battleships?
600
Although Filipinos helped the U.S. defeat Spain, the U.S. kept the islands anyway, angering this Filipino independence leader and sparking a war.
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo?
600
The Roosevelt Corollary expanded this earlier president’s doctrine (1823) that warned Europe to stay out of the Western Hemisphere.
Who is James Monroe? (Monroe Doctrine)
700
The only President to also serve as Chief Supreme Court Justice (hint: Despised TR)
Who is William Taft?
700
The United States gained control of this Pacific territory in 1899 after negotiating with Germany to divide the islands.
What is Samoa?
700
Rebellion in China in 1900 that attempted to remove foreign influence.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
700
Person being forced to marry Uncle Sam in this political cartoon about annexing Hawaii. 
Who is Queen Lili'uokalani?
700
Famous Nez Perce leader who fled to Canada but surrendered famously saying, "I will fight no more forever".
Who is Chief Joseph?
700
Innovation (1867) allowing western cattle to be shipped via rail to eastern markets as fresh meat.
What are refrigerated railcars?
700
This famous McKinley quote states; "There was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and _____________ them."
What is Christianize them?
700
This amendment gave the U.S. the right to intervene in Cuba and turned it into a U.S. protectorate.
What is the Platt Amendment?
800
2 Presidents to serve in two NON-Consecutive terms.
Who are Cleveland & Trump?
800
FOUR motivations for the U.S. expanded overseas during imperialism.
1. Economic Interests/Expansion (new markets/goods)
2. Military & Strategic Power (security)
3. Political Influence
4. Ideological/Cultural Expansion (civilizing/uplifting)
5. National Prestige (competing with European Powers)
(Anything close)
800
The two notable military units that charged up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American war.
Who are the Buffalo Soldiers & the Rough Riders?
800
Year missing from this political cartoon when the U.S. achieved "world power" status.
What is 1898?
800
This Native American spiritual dance movement was outlawed for "frightening" U.S. officials.
What is the Ghost Dance?
800
By 1900, the United States had expanded from 30,000 miles of track in 1860 to roughly this many miles of railroad. (within 10k)
What is 195,000?
800
This American businessman helped overthrow Queen Liliʻuokalani and became president of the “provisional government” that pushed to make Hawaii more American.
Who is Sanford B. Dole?
800
This ideology claimed that stronger nations had the right and duty to control weaker ones (Think: "Survival of the fittest").
What is Social Darwinism?