Where were American forces engaged in a guerilla war after the end of the Spanish-American War?
The Philippines
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What treaty ended the Spanish-American War?
Treaty of Paris of 1898
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Russia, Great Britain, and what other European country was an ally of the U.S. during WWI
France
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What did the 18th Amendment establish?
A ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol
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What era in the U.S. involved changes in income tax, direct election of Senators, Prohibition, and women’s suffrage?
Progressive Era
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What helps to explain the reason for American expansionism in the mid-1800s and early1900s?
U.S. sought new markets for agricultural and industrial products
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What new possessions did the U.S. gain after the Spanish-American War?
Puerto Rico and Guam
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What was Germany practicing that led the U.S. to get involved in WWI?
Unrestricted submarine warfare
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Duke Ellington and Langston Hughes' work illustrated the achievements of the...?
Harlem Renaissance
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Yellow Journalism created support for the Spanish-American War by writing stories about what explosion?
The sinking of the U.S. Maine battleship
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The U.S. gained control of the land it needed to build the Panama Canal by supporting whose independence?
Panama's from Colombian control
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Who told the artist Frederic Remington, "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war"?
William Randolph Hearst
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U.S. Senators were against joining what because it would drag the U.S. into European conflicts?
The League of Nations
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Who helped spread jazz music from New Orleans to northern cities?
Louis Armstrong
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The trial and executions of these two Italian immigrants illustrated what?
The bias against immigrants
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The Panamanian revolt, the Russo-Japanese War, and the creation of the national parks system occurred during the presidency of
Theodore Roosevelt
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On what did the Roosevelt Corollary build?
The Monroe Doctrine
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What event caused WWI to begin?
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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What film proved the advancement of technology following WWI?
The Jazz Singer
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Charles Lindbergh was a famous what?
Pilot
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American imperialism in the Philippines is similar to Spanish imperialism in...?
Cuba
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Who was being criticized in the de Lôme letter?
President McKinley
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The PRIMARY goal of Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points was to
Prevent another world war
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During the 1920s, Congress passed a series of immigration laws that were primarily designed to limit immigration from southern and eastern...?
Europe
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The principle that the U.S. has the right to act as the "policeman of the Western Hemisphere" and intervene in the internal affairs of Latin American nations was established by the