Native Americans
This animal was essential to the survival of the Plains Indians
What is the American Bison (buffalo)?
From 1867 to 1871 this trail saw 1.5 million head of cattle travel from Texas to the railroad depot in Newton, Kansas
What is the Chisholm Trail?
TR signed the Pure Food & Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act into law as a result of this book by Upton Sinclair
What is "The Jungle"?
The U.S. parked a battleship just off the coast of Colombia in order to support a revolution and get a canal built here
What is Panama?
This northwest region of North America was at first considered a foolish purchase from Russia
What is Alaska?
This tribe was the most dominant on the northern Great Plains, with the legendary Sitting Bull as its cheiftan
What are the Sioux?
This invention by Glidden and Ellwood is credited with bringing about an end to the open range cattle grazing business
What is barbed wire?
In settling the Coal Strike of 1902 TR offered both sides this, which also became how his domestic agenda is known
What is a "Square Deal"?
The invitation of the Russians and Japanese to Portsmouth, New Hampshire for a peace summit had more to do with this U.S. policy in China
What is the Open Door Policy?
This central Pacific archipelago was once ruled by monarchs and valued for it's natural deep sea harbor and sugar production
What is Hawaii?
Paiute Indian holy man Wovoka began preaching a message of a savior that would bring an end to the white man and restore the buffalo and raise Native American dead if tribes would just do this
What is the Ghost Dance?
Boom towns would often turn into Ghost towns when these precious metals dried up (two responses)
What is gold and silver?
TR filed the first anti-trust lawsuit in U.S. history going after the Northern Securities Company headed by this tycoon
Who is J.P. Morgan?
This U.S. president tried to right the "wrongs" of Big Stick Diplomacy by signing a treaty with Panamanian President Torrijos in 1977
Who is Jimmy Carter?
The U.S. nearly went to war with Germany over these Pacific Islands, one of which housed a U.S. naval base at Pago Pago
What is (American) Samoa?
This massacre in 1890 brought an end to the period known as "The Indian Wars"
Where is Wounded Knee, South Dakota?
This law allowed settlers to possess 160 acres of land after 5 years with a fee of only $1.25 per acre
What is the Homestead Act?
TR coined this term to describe investigative journalists in what was intended to be a criticism of their practices
What is a muckraker?
Sixteen brand-new battleships went on a world tour before they could even be given a final coat of paint and came to be known as this
What is the Great White Fleet?
These TWO territories on opposite sides of the world were prizes gained as a result of the Spanish-American War and residents born there in 2025 are American citizens
What is Puerto Rico and Guam?
This law eliminated tribal ownership of land, and allotted 160 acre tracts to individual Indians instead, along with U.S. citizenship
What is the Dawes (Severalty) Act?
The 7th Cavalry under the command of George Armstrong Custer lost this famous battle, and his life, to Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull in 1876
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club, took the President on a national tour of natural scenic wonders, leading to a dramatic increase in these during his administration
What are national forests?
When Germans began bombing Venezuela, the U.S. intervened and the Roosevelt Corollary was added to this foreign policy statement of the 5th president of the United States
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Emilio Aguinaldo led a bloody but unsuccessful rebellion against the United States in this Asian archipelago
What is the Philippines?