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Owner of U.S. Steel.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
100
This amendment gave women the right to vote and was highly controversial during its passage.
What is the 19th Amendment?
100
This revolution toppled the Czar and took Russia out of WWI.
What is the Russian Revolution?
100
This war marked America's entrance onto the world stage in 1898.
What is the Spanish American War?
100
The US entered World War I this year.
What is 1917?
200
A substandard multi-family dwelling in the urban core, usually old and occupied by the poor.
What is a tenement?
200
The name for a woman of the 19th and 20th Century's that advocated for women's right to vote.
What is a suffragette?
200
This German attack on this British ocean liner resulted in 1198 deaths including 128 Americans and moved America closer to war with Germany.
What is the RMS Lusitania?
200
The sinking of which ship gave America pretext or a reason to declare war on the Spanish.
What is the USS Maine?
200
The Allied Powers in WW I consisted of these countries___
Who are Britain, France, and Russia (the original Triple Entente, allied in 1907), but also included Italy in 1915 and U.S. in 1917. Japan was also an important member and Belgium, Serbia, Greece, Montenegro, and Romania were secondary members.
300
Known for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the poor and often the young street urchins of New York City.
Who is Jacob Riis?
300
Investigative journalists that spotlighted social ills.
What are muckrakers?
300
The assassination of this man sparked WW I.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand from Austria?
300
Why did President McKinley feel the need to annex the Philippines?
Answers may vary but include: possible resources, fear of the islands falling back into other Colonial powers' hands, and the people need to be educated and taken care of.
300
Which cable between the Foreign Secretary of Germany and the German Ambassador to Mexico helped lead to U.S entrance into the war on April 2, 1917.
What is the Zimmerman Note.
400
This economic practice of buying up the supply chain for production to drive down cost.
What is vertical integration?
400
Muckraker that wrote the Jungle, a book highlighting the abuses and working conditions in Chicago meatpacking industry, leading to governmental regulations to ensure public health.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
400
This president pushed his 14 Point Plan that helped create the League of Nations. His plan wasn't well received back home, and was defeated. He later died shortly after its defeat.
Who is Woodrow Wilson.
400
A poem written in the late 19th Century by Rudyard Kipling, but also a ideology that "white men" or obligated to protect and educate the less advanced people in the colonial world.
What is the "White Man's Burden".
400
Muckraker who was critical of John D. Rockefeller and best known for her 1904 book The History of Standard Oil.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
500
Philosophy based on Darwinism that supported the idea that people lived in a world of survival of the fittest, and if you were strong and talented you would rise in society, but if you were not particularly bright or gifted you would be poor.
What is Social Darwinism?
500
Leader of the militant movement of the Suffrage Movement that led "silent sentinels" at the White House and helped to develop the National Woman's Party.
Who is Alice Paul?
500
This treaty was imposed upon Germany at the conclusion of the war and led in part to World War II.
What is the treaty of Versailles?
500
Leader of the "Rough Riders" or members of the 1st U.S. Volunteer Calvary that fought in Cuba during the Spanish American War. He later became president of the U.S.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
500
Term that characterized sensational journalism that used some yellow ink in a circulation war during the 1890's between Hearst and Pulitzer.
What is Yellow Journalism?