The Gilded Age-World War I

Inventors

100

Credited with inventing the Model T Car

Henry Ford

200

Credited with inventing the light bulb

Thomas Edison

300

Credited with inventing the Airplane

The Wright Brothers

400

Credited with inventing the telephone

Alexander Graham Bell

500

Credited with inventing the Cotton Gin

Eli Whitney

The Gilded Age

100

factors that push a person out of their native country, such as famine, unemployment, religion, or war

Push Factors

200

age in American history, roughly between 1877-1900, which refers to the extravagant wealth and the terrible poverty that lay underneath

The Gilded Age

300

factors that pull a person toward a certain country, such as a better economy, jobs, or peace

Pull Factors

400

Movement by native born American citizens against immigrants 

Nativism

500

President assassinated by Charles Guiteau

James Garfield

The Progressive Era

100

Wrote The Jungle

Upton Sinclair

200

middle class Americans who worried about unrest among on the poor, excesses of the rich, corruption of the government, and decline of morality

Progressives

300

Theodore Roosevelt's motto

"speak softly and carry a big stick"

400

Believed in direct election of senators, single term for President and Vice-President, and a graduated income tax (political party)

Populist Party

500

Founded the Socialist Party of America

Eugene Debs

World War I

100

Immediate cause of World War I

Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife

200

Name the four long-term causes of World War I

militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism

300

Year America entered World War I

1917

400

temporary peace agreement to end fighting

armistice

500

Famous telegram sent from Germany to Mexico, intercepted by the British

Zimmerman Telegram

US Presidents/Vocabulary

100

national policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs

isolationism

200

President during World War I

Woodrow Wilson

300

5 national parks created under his presidency

Theodore Roosevelt

400

policy that calls for expanding a nation's boundaries

expansionism

500

Second President to serve two terms

Thomas Jefferson

Random Questions

100

Number of elements on the periodic table

118

200

Current President of Russia

Vladimir Putin

300

Second longest serving British monarch

Queen Victoria

400

Who played the voice of Darth Vader

James Earl Jones

500

Posted 95 Theses to a church door, beginning the Protestant Reformation

Martin Luther