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He ran the Tuskegee Institute to teach African Americans basic job skills.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
In 1898, the US gained an empire after a war with this country.
What is Spain?
One reason the US fought in WWI was because the Germans sank our ships using this weapon.
What are U-boats?
The 19th Amendment gave this group the right to vote.
Who are women?
He believed African Americans could go to college and should fight back against racism.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
One cause of the Spanish American War was the blowing up of this US battleship.
What is the Maine?
At the end of WWI, the US never joined this peace keeping organization.
What is the League of Nations?
TR were the initials for this president who supported the needs of workers and the poor.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Immigrants from Europe usually stopped at this island before entering into the US.
What is Ellis Island?
This was built to allow ships to travel quickly from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What is the Panama Canal?
Woodrow ______ led America during WWI.
Who is Wilson?
This muckraker took photos of tenements and wrote a book about how the other half lived.
Who is Jacob Riis?
This is a group of people who hate immigrants.
Who are nativists?
The US had an open door policy to trade with this large Asian nation.
What is China?
Another reason why the US joined WWI was the sinking of this large passenger ship in 1915.
What is the Lusitania?
This late 1800s movement, led by women, worked to get people to stop drinking alcohol.
What is temperance?
An inventor with over a thousand patents.
Who is Thomas Alva Edison?
In 1898, the US picked up the chain of islands off the coast of China and kept it until 1946.
What are the Philippines?
America's goal for fighting WWI was to make the world safe for ________.
What is democracy?
Ida _______ was a muckraker wrote a series of articles about John D. Rockefeller's illegal oil monopoly.
Who is Tarbell?