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Reformer who turned Hull House in Chicago as a place for immigrant children and their parents to learn, attend theatre, gather together as an immigrant community, and encourage artists.
Who is Jane Addams
100
Last Queen of Hawaii.
Who is Queen Liliuokalani?
100
Reporters who make up false stories and report them as if they are true are practicing what?
What is yellow journalism?
100
The water passageway from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Panama Canal?
100
Woodrow had learning difficulties as a child. How did he overcome them?
He practiced writing and thinking clearly. His minister father read aloud to him.
200
People who populated Hawaii from the Marquesas Island.
Who is the Polynesians?
200
He was looking for northwest passage through the American continent and he ran into the gorgeous islands of Sandwich Islands or Hawaiian islands.
Who is Captain James Cook?
200
The policy of expanding a nation by claiming foreign lands.
What is imperialism?
200
The place were the Wright Brothers successfully flew an airplane.
What is Kitty Hawk, NC?
200
Name one of the causes that started the war with Spain.
What is American sympathy with Cuban revolutionaries, yellow journalism, the desire to get Spain out of American hemisphere.
300
Princeton Professor, became a reforming governor of New Jersey and became the president of US in 1912.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
300
Provided the lyrics to "Over There," The song the nation was singing at the start of World War I.
Who is George Cohen?
300
Greek work meaning many tongues.
What is a polyglot?
300
This archipelago in the Pacific fought the US valiantly when the US tried to annex it. It took 75,000 US soldiers, four times the number that fought in Cuba to conquer the island.
What is the Philippines?
300
Today some Cuban Americans refer to the Spanish-American war as the Spanish-American-Cuban War. Explain reasons why they might give the war this name.
The war started as a Cuban struggle for independence from Spain.
400
He called Hawaii the loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean.
Who is Mark Twain?
400
Political insider who had been persuaded to help get TR out of New York and into the "safe" job of vice president.
Who is Mark Hanna?
400
A large fire.
What is conflagration?
400
The point where an English captain turned south from and fatefully discovered the Hawaiian Islands.
What is Icy Cape in the Bering Straits?
400
Name at least 2 ways the "movers and shakers" in Chapters 29 to 37 bring about changes that would benefit the mass of people.
Addams expanded justice through child labor laws and juvenile court, Ford democratized the car and paid fair wages, TR went trust busting and passed safe food laws, Wilson improved working conditions, helped farmers with their problems, change the banking system, control monopolies, and lower tariffs. TR created a safe passage from the Atlantic to Pacific.
500
First president who went trust busting and enforced the Sherman anti-trust act.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
500
The admiral who sank every Spanish ship in Manila Bay.
Who is Admiral Dewey?
500
Term used for working like robots...the ultimate goal of Ford's system.
What is automation?
500
The island where Hilo lies, the second-largest city in Hawaii
What is the Island of Hawaii?
500
Name three features of traditional Hawaiian culture?
What is monarchy, rich oral tradition, irrigated plantations, strong navigators, feudal system, religion with strong taboo system and belief of various gods.