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What amendment prohibited the sale and consumption of alcohol?
18th
Who was a skyscraper architect?
Louis Sullivan

What was the first state to grant women voting rights?

Wyoming

Who was one of the earliest progressive leader?
Robert M. La Follette

What city was destroyed by a fire in 1871 that led to the architecture of the modern skyscraper?

Chicago
Who is known as the Hoosier poet?
James Whitcomb Riley

What Union general led the March to the Sea from Atlanta?

William Sherman

Who is considered the Father of Progressive Education?

John Dewy

What President proposed the League of Nations??
Woodrow Wilson

What is Elisha Otis remembered for inventing?

safety elevator

_____ tells a story using the scenery, customs, and dialect of a particular region of the country.

Local color

____ built the largest steel manufacturer in the world.

Andrew Carnegie

____ founded the Hull House to help improve living conditions for women.

Jane Addams

In the Zimmermann note ____ promised land from the United States to Mexico.

Germany

The Teller Resolution stated that the United States intended only to free ____.

Cuba

The first major battle of the Civil War was at ____.

Bull Run

President McKinley passed an act that made ____ the only standard for monetary value.

gold

The ____ Amendment gave Congress the power to tax personal incomes.

16th

_____ was the first commercial broadcasting station.

KDKA

The ____ Party was the first to express that the government could solve practically all problems.

Populist

Who was the first U.S. Vice President to sit in on cabinet meetings?

Calvin Coolidge

Who defended the Bible and won the Scopes trial?

Williams Jennings Bryan

Who is remembered as the March King?

John Philip Sousa

Who was the baseball evangelist from 1900's?

Billy Sunday

What country pulled out of World War I with the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?



Russia

Why is the Age of Industry also called the Gilded Age?



Although modern conveniences of industry were enjoyed,corruption plagued society and politics.

According to Booker T. Washington, what is the best way to be successful?



Hard work provides the avenue for success.

set a precedent for government regulation of business

Sherman Antitrust Act

balanced the upset between slave and free states

Compromise of 1850

offered land and citizenship to the had of an Indian family

Dawes Act

controlled immigration of Japanese laborers to the United States

Gentleman's Agreement

provided for Cuban independence

Platt Amendment

Number the following events in order they occurred.

end the Civil War


sinking of the Titanic


completion of the first transcontinental railroad


Spanish-American War


the United States enters World War I



1 - end the Civil War -1865

4 - sinking of the Titanic -1912


2 - completion of the first transcontinental railroad - 1869


3 - Spanish-American War - 1898


5 - the United States enters World War I - 1917

Number the following events in order they occurred.


beginning of the Civil War


compromise to end Reconstruction


end of World War I


Emancipation Proclamation

1 - beginning of the Civil War -1861

3 - compromise to end Reconstruction - 1877


4 - end of World War I - 1918


2 - Emancipation Proclamation - 1863

greatest war hero from Word War I

Alvin York

one of the first men to reach the North Pole

Robert Peary

formed the Standard Oil Company

John D. Rockefeller

found the NAACP

W.E.B. Du Bois

established the first successful labor union

Samuel Gompers

founder of the Grange

Oliver Kelley

represented South Carolina

John C. Calhoun

proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Stephen Douglas

Why did the United States hold onto several Pacific islands after the Spanish-American War?

To prepare them for self-government

Why did the League of Nations and the Kellogg-Briand Pact fail to prevent war?

They ignored the sin nature.

How did false philosophies such as Modernism and evolution affect the United States?



Although many Americans rejected false philosophies during the 19th century, many began to accept them in the 20th century.

first to be impeached

Andrew Johnson

served as President during the Civil War

Abraham Lincoln

supported Dollar Diplomacy

William Taft

popularized the progressive movement

Theodore Roosevelt

served two terms nonconsecutively

Grover Cleveland

What state was admitted to the Union during the Civil War?

West Virginia

Who made the first nonstop transatlantic flight?

Charles Lindbergh

Who was the greatest inventor America has ever produced?

Thomas Edison

What U.S. amendment outlawed slavery?

13th Amendment

Who was the Union commanding officer at the end of the Civil War?

Ulysses Grant

What senator declared his loyalty to the Union in the Seventh of March Speech?

Daniel Webster

What economic system successfully affected the Age of Industry in the United States?

capitalism or free enterprise

What act created a privately controlled central banking system under the sponsorship of the government?

Federal Reserve Act

What organization was created by leaders of Communism that met Moscow?

Third International

What act required men of specific ages to register with local drafts boards?

Selective Service Act

Belize
Gulf of Panama
Lake Nicaragua
Panama Canal
Gulf of Honduras
Guatemala
Honduras
Costa Rica

Belize


Gulf of Panama


Lake Nicaragua


Panama Canal


Gulf of Honduras


Guatemala


Honduras


Costa Rica

6 - Belize

1 - Gulf of Panama


4 - Lake Nicaragua


5 - Panama Canal


2 - Gulf of Honduras


7 - Guatemala


8 - Honduras


11 - Costa Rica