Round 1 Round 2Ultimate Question

La La FolletteFollette

RoosevelRooseveltt

WilsonWilson

Too Too Proud toProud to

FightFight

Muck-Muck-rakersrakers

SocialSocialCrusadersCrusaders

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TRTRSplendidSplendid

LittleLittleWarWar

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MonroeMonroeDoctrineDoctrine

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The immediate cause of the Spanish

American War was this explosive event.

What is the the explosion of explosion of the the U.S.S. U.S.S.

MaineMaine??

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William Randolph Hearst and Joseph

Pulitzer were known by this term, for sensationalizing

events and stretching the truth. Answer

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What is Yellow Yellow Journalists?Journalists?

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This Filipino insurgent led a

guerilla war against the U.S. when the

Philippines became a U.S. protectorate

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Who is Emilio Emilio AguinaldoAguinaldo?

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The war actually began with the U.S.

destroying the Spanish fleet at this

location.Answer

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What is Manila Manila Bay Bay

(Philippines)?(Philippines)?

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This 1898 congressional declaration stated the

U.S. did not seek to take over Cuba, but sought only to help

Cuba become independent.

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What is the Teller Teller

AmendmentAmendment??

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This was the official U.S.

position during the early years of

World War I.Answer

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What is neutrality?neutrality?

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This war policy was the most important reason for why the U.S. entered World

War I.

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What is Germany’s Germany’s

Unrestricted Unrestricted Submarine Submarine Warfare?Warfare?

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This 1915 Titanic-like event was important in making U.S. public

opinion hostile towards Germany.

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What is the sinking of the sinking of the

LusitaniaLusitania??

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This intercepted secret message

sought to give U.S. land to Mexico in

exchange for being Germany’s ally.

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What is the Zimmerman Zimmerman

Note?Note?

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This agreement between Germany and Wilson stated that Germany

wouldn’t sink any more unarmed ships

(provided that Britain lifted its blockade).

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What is the Sussex Sussex Pledge?Pledge?

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TR became president when this “gold bug” was shot and

killed.

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Who is PresidentPresident William William

McKinley?McKinley?

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The resolution of this 1902 labor dispute showed Americans that TR wanted a

“Square Deal” between capital and

labor. Answer

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What is the Anthracite Anthracite

Coal Strike?Coal Strike?

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TR was hailed as a “trustbuster” for prosecuting this

railroad trust owned by J. P. Morgan et al.

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What is the Northern Northern

Securities Co.?Securities Co.?

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This 1906 act gave “teeth” to the Interstate Commerce Commission

and distinguished between “good” and

“bad” trusts.

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What is the Hepburn Act?Hepburn Act?

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This 1902 act provided irrigation control to western

states by damming up major western rivers.

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What is the Newlands Newlands

Reclamation Reclamation ActAct?

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This novel, by Upton Sinclair,

inspired Americans to demand a safer

meat supply.Answer

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What is The The JungleJungle??

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This 1890s photojournalist

exposed horrible living conditions in How the Other Half

Lives.Answer

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Who is Jacob Jacob Riis?Riis?

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This daughter of an oil man wrote an exposé that chronicled the

ruthless tactics of John D. Rockefeller in the oil

industry.

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Who is Ida Ida Tarbell?Tarbell?

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This muckraker’s Shame of the Cities detailed corruption between

political machines and trusts in municipal

government.Answer

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Who is Lincoln Lincoln Steffens?Steffens?

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This muckraker’s Bitter Cry of

Children revealed much about child

labor.Answer

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Who is John John Spargo?Spargo?

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She was among the first

progressives when she founded Hull House in 1889.

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Who is Jane Jane Addams?Addams?

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This former Hull-House worker

became the voice against the

exploitation of women and children.

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Who is Florence Florence Kelley?Kelley?

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This Harvard Ph.D led the Niagara Movement and later co-founded

the NAACP.

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Who is W. E. W. E. B. Du Bois?B. Du Bois?

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This militant feminist picketed the White House and went on

hunger strikes (before later proposing the

ERA).

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Who is Alice Alice Paul?Paul?

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This African American female

campaigned tirelessly to reduce

lynching in the South. Scoreboard

Who is Ida B. Ida B. Wells-Barnett?Wells-Barnett?

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The Monroe Doctrine was originally issued in

1823 during the presidency of James

Monroe and written by this secretary of state.

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Who is John John Quincy Quincy Adams?Adams?

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The Monroe Doctrine was enforced right after the Civil War

when France refused to leave this country.

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What is Mexico?Mexico?

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Grover Cleveland presided over this 1895-

96 crisis when Britain sought to change one of its colonies’ borders in

South America.

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What is the Venezuela Venezuela Boundary Boundary Dispute? Dispute?

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In 1902, TR invoked the Monroe Doctrine when

settling a conflict between Venezuela and this country, that sunk

two of Venezuela’s gunboats.

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What is Germany?Germany?

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Answer

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Doctrine and increase cooperation in the

Western Hemisphere, this new policy was advanced

by Secretary of State James G. Blaine in 1889.

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What is Pan-Pan-Americanism?Americanism?

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Home-Home-frontfront

PresidentPresidentWilsonWilson ReformsReforms

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TR’s “gunboat diplomacy” took

Panama away from this country

in 1903.

What is Colombia?Colombia?

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TR stated in 1902 that the U.S. was now the

“policeman of the Western Hemisphere” with this new policy.

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What is the Roosevelt Roosevelt

Corollary to the Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?Monroe Doctrine?

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So that the U.S. could retain “unofficial” control of Cuba, TR

supported this “amendment” in

1902.Answer

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What is the Platt Platt

Amendment?Amendment?

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Trying to discourage Japan from getting too feisty in Asia, TR sent this around the world

in 1907.

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What is the Great White Great White

Fleet?Fleet?

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TR began his policy of being the Western

Hemisphere’s “policeman” when he sent troops to this Caribbean

country in 1902 to organize customs

collections. Answer

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What is the Dominican Dominican Republic?Republic?

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This propagandistic organization was

created in order to sell World War I to

the American people.

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What is the Creel Creel Committee Committee (or Committee on Committee on

Public Public InformationInformation)?

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These two laws cracked down on

those who publicly opposed the war.

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What are the Espionage and Espionage and Sedition Acts?Sedition Acts?

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Bernard Baruch headed this weak organization to coordinate the

nation’s production during wartime.

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What is the War Industries War Industries

Board?Board?

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These two constitutional amendments were ratified in direct

response to patriotism and sacrifice at home

during WWI.

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What are the 1818thth and 19 and 19thth

Amendments?Amendments?

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This radical union of workers inadvertently hurt the Socialist Party due to their communist rhetoric and industrial

sabotage.Answer

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Who are the Wobblies Wobblies

(Industrial (Industrial Workers of the Workers of the World—IWW)?World—IWW)?

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Taft was criticized for this policy—providing military support for

U.S. investments abroad.

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What is Dollar Dollar Diplomacy?Diplomacy?

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Wilson’s statement that he would “teach Latin American republics to elect good men” was emblematic of this Wilsonian foreign

policy.Answer

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What is Moral Moral Diplomacy? Diplomacy?

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As a result of this compromise, TR and Japan

agreed to no more Japanese immigration

while allowing Japanese children to go to San

Francisco public schools. Answer

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What is the Gentleman’s Gentleman’s Agreement?Agreement?

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The U.S. and Germany nearly came to naval blows in the 1890s

regarding control over these South Pacific

islands.Answer

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What is Samoa?Samoa?

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Secretary of State John Hay was

responsible for this U.S. policy of free

trade in China.

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What is the Open Door Open Door

Policy?Policy?

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This 1913 law created

America’s modern banking

system.Answer

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What is the Federal Federal

Reserve Act?Reserve Act?

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This law created America’s first

permanent income tax in 1913.

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What is the Underwood Underwood Tariff Bill?Tariff Bill?

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This was the campaign slogan used by Wilson in 1912 as he promised

to tackle the “triple wall of privilege.”

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What is the “New New

Freedom?”Freedom?”

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This new agency closely monitored the activities

of businesses in interstate commerce and could issue “cease and

desist” orders.Answer

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What is the Federal Trade Federal Trade Commission?Commission?

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Wilson appointed this legal giant as the first

Jew to the Supreme Court.

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Who is Louis Louis Brandeis?Brandeis?

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This new voting method allowed

people to cast their votes privately, out of the watchful eyes of political machines.

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What is the Australian Australian

Ballot (or secret Ballot (or secret ballot)?ballot)?

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As a result of this amendment, the

voters of each state could now elect their

senators.

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What is the Seventeenth Seventeenth Amendment?Amendment?

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After a 1906 hurricane and tidal wave in

Galveston, Texas, the city reformed itself by

developing this.

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What is the Commission Commission

System?System?

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Many of this governor’s reforms in

the “Wisconsin Experiment” were

later instituted by the federal government.

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Who is Robert Robert La Follette?La Follette?

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This 1911 tragedy convinced New York and other cities to improve working

conditions in sweatshops.

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What is the Triangle Triangle

Shirtwaist Shirtwaist Co. FireCo. Fire?

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Wilson signed this labor law into effect in 1916 but the Supreme Court killed it two years later claiming the issue was a

local matter.

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What is the Child Labor Child Labor

Act?Act?

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This law created such controversy in the

Republican party that it split during the election of 1912.

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What is the Payne-Aldrich Payne-Aldrich Tariff, 1910?Tariff, 1910?

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These Supreme Court decisions collectively ruled the Constitution does not completely apply to peoples in newly conquered

territories.

What are the Insular Cases?Insular Cases?

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President Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace

Prize in 1906 for mediating an end to

this war.

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Japanese Japanese War?War?

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This organization was created as a

result of Woodrow Wilson’s

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These four colonies These four colonies were acquired by the were acquired by the U.S. as a result of the U.S. as a result of the

Spanish-American War.Spanish-American War.

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What are Hawaii, Hawaii,

Philippines, Philippines, Guam & Puerto Guam & Puerto

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