Thinking like a historian
1776 message to Great Britain.
What was The Declaration of Independence?
A golden apple with a rotten inside.
What is the symbol for The Gilded Age?
The banning of alcoholic beverages.
What was the temperance?
This award is the highest form of decoration and was given to many brave soldiers who put their life on the line.
What is the Medal of honor.
The term for a new beginning after the World War.
What was the return to normalcy?
The people who wanted Independence from Great Britain.
Who were patriots?
A law granting settlers 160 acres of land.
What was the homestead act?
Known as the first form of "click bait".
What was yellow journalism?
The removal of relations and conflict with other countries.
What is Isolationism?
The fear that Russians would influence the US government.
What was the Red Scare?
The effect of the corruption of the Catholic churches.
Why did patriots revolt against their own country?
When gold was discovered in Alaska
What was the Klondike gold rush?
A term for journalists uncovering corrupted business.
What is a muckraker?
Because that region had good land for a Naval base (Pearl Harbor).
Why did the US invade Hawaii?
The definition of equal opportunity.
What is egalitarianism?
The general was killed at the wounded knee massacre.
What battle did General Custer get killed in?
The hands off method to running a society.
What is Laissez-Faire?
The US Naval captain who led the Navy to success and wrote "The influence of sea power upon history".
A French historian and philosopher who spent 8 months in America to study it.
Who was Alex de Tocqueville?
The desire to promote your welfare to others.
What is philanthropy?
This stood for the National Association for the advancement of colored people.
What did NAACP stand for?
It was the reason the US didn't join the league of Nations.
What was Henry Cabot Lodge?