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Henry Ford
Who is an American inventor, businessman, and car manufacturer?
100
This invention, by Henry Ford, was a game-changer in the manufacturing field.
What is the assembly line?
100
Someone who believes in the absence of government.
What is an anarchist?
100
This is the first black man to eat at the White House as an invited guest of President TR.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
100
Rallying cry that Americans and yellow journalists cried out for the United States to join the Spanish-American war.
What is "Remember the Maine?"
200
This was TR's handpicked Presidential successor.
Who is William Howard Taft?
200
This was President Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy motto.
What is speak softly and carry a big stick?
200
This banned the sale, consumption, and distribution of alcohol in the United States.
What is the 18th Amendment?
200
This man was the Vice President of TR in his first term in office.
What is no one?
200
The illness that wiped out around 100 million people around the world in 1918-1919, including a mortality rate of 10%.
What is the Spanish Flu?
300
This is the only man to hold the Presidency and be the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Who is William Howard Taft?
300
President Taft is most infamous for this event...
300
The League of Nations
What was President Wilson's 14th point?
300
This is the all-African American air force group that fought fiercely in WWI..
Who are the Harlem Hell Fighters?
300
List for me at least two new weapon technolgies used in batter for the first time in WWI?
What are the unterseeboots, (German u-boats), the blimp, machine guns, tanks, and chemical warfare?
400
This is the 1st Southerner elected President of the United States since the Civil War.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
400
This declared federal income tax to be paid by all workers was here to stay in the USA.
What is the 16th Amendment?
400
This was the outcome of the Spanish-American War.
What did the United States win, and what did Spain leave behind on the North American continent, and we acquired new imperialistic territories?
400
TR's "cowboy group" who led the charge up San Juan Hill.
Who are the Rough Riders?
400
This describes what the jungle was about...
What is the meat packing industry, the horrible working conditions and unsanitary areas of work for those in the food market industry?
500
Leon Czolgosz
Who is the man who shot President William McKinley?
500
Russia suddenly left World War I because of....
What is the Russian/Communist Revolution?
500
Explain how the teddy bear came to be.
What is that someone tied up a bear and told TR to shoot it for his game trophies, he refused and said shooting a tied-up creature is no kind of sport, and he let the bear go, making toy manufacturers think of the "Teddy Bear" toy?
500
***Daily DOUBLE****
This man shot then Presidential candidate, Theodore Roosevelt.
Who is John Schrank?
500
These are the territories the US acquired after the Spanish-American War.
What are Puerto Rico, the Phillipines and...
600
This person wrote the book, The Jungle.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
600
Define imperialism for me.
What is the taking of lands outside of your own borders to obtain them and for them to benefit said mother country?
600
This event marked the start of the Great War.
What is the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand?
600
William McKinley's assistant secretary to the navy...
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
600
Name for me at least three things that came out of the Treaty of Versailles.
What is Germany had to take full blame for the war, Germany had to pay reparations for the war, and Germany could have no air force, no u-boats, and only 6 navy battleships for the foreseeable future?