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62 Cards in this Set
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Name the man who helped rid the Panama Canal of infectious diseases
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William Gorgas |
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Whose assassination sparked World War I? |
Archduke Ferdinand |
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Name the common type of housing for settlers on the prairie |
sod houses |
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Who designed and built the Brooklyn Bridge? |
Washington and John Roebling |
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Give the name for American infantrymen during World War I |
doughboys |
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What was the purpose of the Interstate Commerce Act? |
regulated shipping rated charged by the railroads |
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Who developed hundreds of uses for the peanut |
George Washington Carver |
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Name the founder of the Union Oil Company |
Lyman Stewart |
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Name the President who sent the Great White Fleet around the world |
President Theodore Roosevelt |
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What was the purpose of the Dawes Act? |
It offered land and citizenship to any Indian willing to take up farming |
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Name the battle where George Custer was killed |
Little Bighorn |
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Name the was that came about because of a conflict in Cuba |
Spanish-American War |
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Name the person who sponsored the Pendleton Civil Service Act |
Chester Arthur |
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Who led the American expeditionary force during World War I? |
General John Pershing |
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Who helped produce the first practical commercial typewriter? |
Christopher Sholes |
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Name the only President to be inaugurated by his father |
Calvin Coolidge |
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World War I years |
1914-1918 |
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Name Dwight L. Moody's song leader |
Ira David Sankey |
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Name the occupation of Louis Sullivan |
Architect |
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Name the three Central Powers |
Germany, Bulgaria, and Austria-Hungary |
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Name the document that promised land to Mexico in return for helping |
Zimmerman Note |
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Name the father of modern psychology |
Sigmund Freud |
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Name the document written by the Spanish ambassador to Cuba that infuriated the American people |
Delome Letter |
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The President that served two non-consecutive terms |
Grover Cleveland |
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The document that provided for examination for political office seekers |
Pendleton Civil Service Act |
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The city in which Dwight L. Moody found the Moody Bible Institute |
Chicago |
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The first inter-racial hospital in the United States |
Providence hospital |
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The President who suffered under the Teapot Dome scandal |
Warren G. Harding |
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The American battleship that blew up in the harbor at Havana, Cuba |
U.S.S. Maine |
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The amendment that made income tax legal |
16th Amendment |
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The political party that supported a free silver policy |
Populist Party |
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Yellow journalism= |
is the printing of sensational stories intended to excite the reader |
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What promoted free trade in China? |
Open Door Policy |
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The year Titanic sank from being struck by an iceberg |
1912 |
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imperialist = |
a person who wants to control governments |
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The event where the United States was determined to enforce the Monroe Doctrine without relying on Britain |
Boundary Dispute |
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The war where President Theodore Roosevelt won a Nobel Peace Prize |
Russo-Japanese War |
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The chief of the Apache Indian tribe |
Geronimo |
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The dates of the Progressive Era |
1900-1916 |
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The best known hero of World War 1 |
Alvin York |
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Dwight L. Moody's former profession |
Shoe salesman |
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The most popular American poet in the late 19th and 20th centuries |
James Whitcomb Riley |
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The document that opened the Great Plains for settlement |
Homestead Act |
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The first automobile produced on an assembly line |
Model T |
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The father of modern socialism |
Karl Marx |
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The nickname of Robert La Follette |
Battlin' Bob |
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The two men who worked together to control yellow fever |
Dr. Walter Reed and Dr. Carlos Finlay |
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The President during World War 1 |
Woodrow Wilson |
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The complete due date World War 1 ended |
November 11, 1918 |
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The amendment that prohibited the sale and consumption of alcohol |
18th Amendment |
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The event that was a for evolutionists |
Scopes or Monkey Trial |
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The leader of the Rough Riders |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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Who wrote corollary to the Monroe Doctrine |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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The philanthropist who made hid fortune in the steel business |
Andrew Carnegie |
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Who wrote the song "Blessed Assurance"? |
Fanny Crosby |
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Who invented the incandescent light bulb? |
Thomas Edison |
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How much did the United States purchase the Philippines for? |
$20 million |
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The nickname for Charles Lindbergh |
The Lone Eagle |
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What is Charles Lindbergh remembered for? |
first nonstop transatlantic flight |
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The founder of Grange |
Oliver H. Kelly |
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Who became President after the assassination of President William McKinley? |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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Whose death led to the Pendleton Civil Service Act? |
James Garfield |