SPANISH AMERICAN WAR
PROGRESSIVE ERA
WORLD WAR I
IMPERIALISM
Previous Periods
100

THE YEAR THE USS MAINE EXPLODED

What is 1898

100

THEIR ROLE WAS TO EXPOSE CORRUPTION IN AMERICAN SOCIETY, TAKING DOWN A MEAT INDUSTRY AND A ROCKEFELLER

Who are the Muckrakers

100

The British passenger ship destroyed by a German u-boat submarine.  This event contributed to Americans wanting to get involved in WWI.  

What is The Lusitania

100

An example of resistance to US control after the Spanish-American War.

What are the Philippines

100

The theory that wealth belongs in the hands of those who were fittest to manage it.

What is Social Darwinism

200

HE STRONGLY FAVORED A WAR WITH SPAIN TO "EXPAND" AMERICAN WORLD POWER, AND WAS A VERY INFLUENTIAL SENATOR

WHO IS HENRY CABOT LODGE?

200

WILSON'S PLAN TO OVERHAUL THE BANKING INDUSTRY INCLUDED THE CREATION OF THIS THAT WOULD REGULATE BANKS UNDER BANKERS' CONTROL

What is THE FEDERAL RESERVE

200

The movement of approximately 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West in the late 19th to mid 20th Centuries.  

The Great Migration

200

The causes of this included Yellow Journalism, the Cuban Revolution and the USS Maine explosion.

What is the Spanish-American War

200

This trade of animals, plants, culture, and human population between American and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres during the 15th and 16th centuries.

What is the Columbian Exchange

300

HE PROMOTED AMERICAN OVERSEAS EXPANSION ARGUING FOR AMERICA TO DOMINATE BY SEA POWER

WHO IS ALFRED THAYER MAHAN

300

This Progressive Era reformer opened the Hull House in Chicago to provide social services to immigrants.

WHO IS JANE ADDAMS?

300

The discovery of this disclosed Germany's promise to help Mexico attack the US if the US declared war on Germany.

Zimmerman Telegram

300

A territory in the Pacific that the US was interested in for valuable resources like it's sugar and strategic naval bases.

What is Hawaii

300

The state the union acquired in the Adams-Onis treaty

FLORIDA! (also Oregon)

400

THIS AMENDMENT DICTATED THE TERMS OF AMERICAN INTERVENTION IN CUBA POST WAR & ESTABLISHED THE MILITARY BASE OF GUANTANAMO

What is THE PLATT AMENDMENT

400

Upton Sinclair was the muckraker who wrote this book which exposed the meatpacking industry and the troubles associated with it.  

What is THE JUNGLE?

400

Two examples of how some Americans (mainly Germans) lost some civil liberties and freedoms during World War I.

What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts

400

The causes of this included Yellow Journalism, the Cuban Revolution and the USS Maine explosion.

What is the Spanish-American War

400

Where nullification found its beginnings (hint: Alien and Sedition acts)

What is the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

500

AFTER THE MAINE EXPLOSION, HE WAS HESITANT TO DECLARE WAR BECAUSE OF HIS OWN WAR EXPERIENCES DURING THE CIVIL WAR

WHO WAS WILLIAM MCKINLEY

500

WHICH TWO PROGRESSIVE AREAS DID TEDDY ROOSEVELT MAKE SUBSTANTIAL SUCCESS (what did he focus on)

What is THE CONSUMER AND CONSERVATION

500

This Supreme Court decision declared that the federal government could limit the 1st Amendment right of "freedom of speech" in time of war and if there was a "clear and present danger."

What is Schenck v. US

500

Supreme Court Cases that ruled the people in territories taken over by the US during Imperialism are not automatically entitled to the same rights and freedoms as Americans.

What are the Insular Cases

500

This pamphlet was influential in convincing many Americans that the colonies should declare their independence from Britain

What is Common Sense