Round 1 Round 2Ultimate Question
La La FolletteFollette
RoosevelRooseveltt
WilsonWilson
Too Too Proud toProud to
FightFight
Muck-Muck-rakersrakers
SocialSocialCrusadersCrusaders
$100
$200
$300
$400
$500
$100 $100 $100 $100
$200 $200 $200 $200
$300
$400
$500
$300 $300
$400 $400 $400
$500 $500 $500
TRTRSplendidSplendid
LittleLittleWarWar
$300
$100
MonroeMonroeDoctrineDoctrine
$200
$300
$400
$500
AnswerScoreboard
$100$100
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??
$100$100
Scoreboard
William Randolph Hearst and Joseph
Pulitzer were known by this term, for sensationalizing
events and stretching the truth. Answer
$200$200
Scoreboard
What is Yellow Yellow Journalists?Journalists?
$200$200
Scoreboard
This Filipino insurgent led a
guerilla war against the U.S. when the
Philippines became a U.S. protectorate
Answer
$300$300
Scoreboard
Who is Emilio Emilio AguinaldoAguinaldo?
$300$300
Scoreboard
The war actually began with the U.S.
destroying the Spanish fleet at this
location.Answer
$400$400
Scoreboard
What is Manila Manila Bay Bay
(Philippines)?(Philippines)?
$400$400
Scoreboard
This 1898 congressional declaration stated the
U.S. did not seek to take over Cuba, but sought only to help
Cuba become independent.
Answer
$500$500
Scoreboard
What is the Teller Teller
AmendmentAmendment??
$500$500
Scoreboard
This was the official U.S.
position during the early years of
World War I.Answer
$100$100
Scoreboard
What is neutrality?neutrality?
$100$100
Scoreboard
This war policy was the most important reason for why the U.S. entered World
War I.
Answer
$200$200
Scoreboard
What is Germany’s Germany’s
Unrestricted Unrestricted Submarine Submarine Warfare?Warfare?
$200$200
Scoreboard
This 1915 Titanic-like event was important in making U.S. public
opinion hostile towards Germany.
Answer
$300$300
Scoreboard
What is the sinking of the sinking of the
LusitaniaLusitania??
$300$300
Scoreboard
This intercepted secret message
sought to give U.S. land to Mexico in
exchange for being Germany’s ally.
Answer
$400$400
Scoreboard
What is the Zimmerman Zimmerman
Note?Note?
$400$400
Scoreboard
This agreement between Germany and Wilson stated that Germany
wouldn’t sink any more unarmed ships
(provided that Britain lifted its blockade).
Answer
$500$500
Scoreboard
What is the Sussex Sussex Pledge?Pledge?
$500$500
Scoreboard
Answer
TR became president when this “gold bug” was shot and
killed.
$100$100
Scoreboard
Who is PresidentPresident William William
McKinley?McKinley?
$100$100
Scoreboard
The resolution of this 1902 labor dispute showed Americans that TR wanted a
“Square Deal” between capital and
labor. Answer
$200$200
Scoreboard
What is the Anthracite Anthracite
Coal Strike?Coal Strike?
$200$200
Scoreboard
Place a bet between $100 to $1000 (or higher if you have
more money)
Question
TR was hailed as a “trustbuster” for prosecuting this
railroad trust owned by J. P. Morgan et al.
Answer
$300$300
Scoreboard
What is the Northern Northern
Securities Co.?Securities Co.?
$300$300
Scoreboard
This 1906 act gave “teeth” to the Interstate Commerce Commission
and distinguished between “good” and
“bad” trusts.
Answer
$400$400
Scoreboard
What is the Hepburn Act?Hepburn Act?
$400$400
Scoreboard
This 1902 act provided irrigation control to western
states by damming up major western rivers.
Answer
$500$500
Scoreboard
What is the Newlands Newlands
Reclamation Reclamation ActAct?
$500$500
Scoreboard
This novel, by Upton Sinclair,
inspired Americans to demand a safer
meat supply.Answer
$100$100
Scoreboard
What is The The JungleJungle??
$100$100
Scoreboard
This 1890s photojournalist
exposed horrible living conditions in How the Other Half
Lives.Answer
$200$200
Scoreboard
Who is Jacob Jacob Riis?Riis?
$200$200
Scoreboard
.
This daughter of an oil man wrote an exposé that chronicled the
ruthless tactics of John D. Rockefeller in the oil
industry.
Answer
$300$300
Scoreboard
Who is Ida Ida Tarbell?Tarbell?
$300$300
Scoreboard
This muckraker’s Shame of the Cities detailed corruption between
political machines and trusts in municipal
government.Answer
$400$400
Scoreboard
Who is Lincoln Lincoln Steffens?Steffens?
$400$400
Scoreboard
This muckraker’s Bitter Cry of
Children revealed much about child
labor.Answer
$500$500
Scoreboard
Who is John John Spargo?Spargo?
$500$500
Scoreboard
She was among the first
progressives when she founded Hull House in 1889.
Answer
$100$100
Scoreboard
Who is Jane Jane Addams?Addams?
$100$100
Scoreboard
This former Hull-House worker
became the voice against the
exploitation of women and children.
Answer
$200$200
Scoreboard
Who is Florence Florence Kelley?Kelley?
$200$200
Scoreboard
This Harvard Ph.D led the Niagara Movement and later co-founded
the NAACP.
Answer
$300$300
Scoreboard
Who is W. E. W. E. B. Du Bois?B. Du Bois?
$300$300
Scoreboard
Answer
$400$400
This militant feminist picketed the White House and went on
hunger strikes (before later proposing the
ERA).
Scoreboard
Who is Alice Alice Paul?Paul?
$400$400
Scoreboard
Answer
$500$500
This African American female
campaigned tirelessly to reduce
lynching in the South. Scoreboard
Who is Ida B. Ida B. Wells-Barnett?Wells-Barnett?
$500$500
Scoreboard
The Monroe Doctrine was originally issued in
1823 during the presidency of James
Monroe and written by this secretary of state.
Answer
$100$100
Scoreboard
Who is John John Quincy Quincy Adams?Adams?
$100$100
Scoreboard
The Monroe Doctrine was enforced right after the Civil War
when France refused to leave this country.
Answer
$200$200
Scoreboard
What is Mexico?Mexico?
$200$200
Scoreboard
Grover Cleveland presided over this 1895-
96 crisis when Britain sought to change one of its colonies’ borders in
South America.
Answer
$300$300
Scoreboard
What is the Venezuela Venezuela Boundary Boundary Dispute? Dispute?
$300$300
Scoreboard
Answer
$400$400
In 1902, TR invoked the Monroe Doctrine when
settling a conflict between Venezuela and this country, that sunk
two of Venezuela’s gunboats.
Scoreboard
What is Germany?Germany?
$400$400
Scoreboard
Answer
$500$500To strengthen the Monroe
Doctrine and increase cooperation in the
Western Hemisphere, this new policy was advanced
by Secretary of State James G. Blaine in 1889.
Scoreboard
What is Pan-Pan-Americanism?Americanism?
$500$500
Scoreboard
Home-Home-frontfront
PresidentPresidentWilsonWilson ReformsReforms
$200
$400
$600
$800
$1000
$200 $200 $200 $200
$400 $400 $400 $400
$600
$800
$1000
$600 $600
$800 $800 $800
$1000 $1000 $1000
ForeignForeignPolicyPolicy
BigBigStickStick
$600
FeelingFeelingLucky?Lucky?
$200
$400
$600
$800
$1000
Answer
$200$200
Scoreboard
TR’s “gunboat diplomacy” took
Panama away from this country
in 1903.
What is Colombia?Colombia?
$200$200
Scoreboard
TR stated in 1902 that the U.S. was now the
“policeman of the Western Hemisphere” with this new policy.
Answer
$400$400
Scoreboard
What is the Roosevelt Roosevelt
Corollary to the Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?Monroe Doctrine?
$400$400
Scoreboard
So that the U.S. could retain “unofficial” control of Cuba, TR
supported this “amendment” in
1902.Answer
$600$600
Scoreboard
What is the Platt Platt
Amendment?Amendment?
$600$600
Scoreboard
Trying to discourage Japan from getting too feisty in Asia, TR sent this around the world
in 1907.
Answer
$800$800
Scoreboard
What is the Great White Great White
Fleet?Fleet?
$800$800
Scoreboard
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
$1000$1000
Scoreboard
What is the Dominican Dominican Republic?Republic?
$1000$1000
Scoreboard
This propagandistic organization was
created in order to sell World War I to
the American people.
Answer
$200$200
Scoreboard
What is the Creel Creel Committee Committee (or Committee on Committee on
Public Public InformationInformation)?
$200$200
Scoreboard
These two laws cracked down on
those who publicly opposed the war.
Answer
$400$400
Scoreboard
What are the Espionage and Espionage and Sedition Acts?Sedition Acts?
$400$400
Scoreboard
Answer
$600$600
Bernard Baruch headed this weak organization to coordinate the
nation’s production during wartime.
Scoreboard
What is the War Industries War Industries
Board?Board?
$600$600
Scoreboard
These two constitutional amendments were ratified in direct
response to patriotism and sacrifice at home
during WWI.
Answer
$800$800
Scoreboard
What are the 1818thth and 19 and 19thth
Amendments?Amendments?
$800$800
Scoreboard
This radical union of workers inadvertently hurt the Socialist Party due to their communist rhetoric and industrial
sabotage.Answer
$1000$1000
Scoreboard
Who are the Wobblies Wobblies
(Industrial (Industrial Workers of the Workers of the World—IWW)?World—IWW)?
$1000$1000
Scoreboard
Answer
Taft was criticized for this policy—providing military support for
U.S. investments abroad.
$200$200
Scoreboard
What is Dollar Dollar Diplomacy?Diplomacy?
$200$200
Scoreboard
Wilson’s statement that he would “teach Latin American republics to elect good men” was emblematic of this Wilsonian foreign
policy.Answer
$400$400
Scoreboard
What is Moral Moral Diplomacy? Diplomacy?
$400$400
Scoreboard
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
$600$600
Scoreboard
What is the Gentleman’s Gentleman’s Agreement?Agreement?
$600$600
Scoreboard
The U.S. and Germany nearly came to naval blows in the 1890s
regarding control over these South Pacific
islands.Answer
$800$800
Scoreboard
$800$800
What is Samoa?Samoa?
Scoreboard
Secretary of State John Hay was
responsible for this U.S. policy of free
trade in China.
Answer
$1000$1000
Scoreboard
What is the Open Door Open Door
Policy?Policy?
$1000$1000
Scoreboard
This 1913 law created
America’s modern banking
system.Answer
$200$200
Scoreboard
What is the Federal Federal
Reserve Act?Reserve Act?
$200$200
Scoreboard
This law created America’s first
permanent income tax in 1913.
Answer
$400$400
Scoreboard
What is the Underwood Underwood Tariff Bill?Tariff Bill?
$400$400
Scoreboard
.
This was the campaign slogan used by Wilson in 1912 as he promised
to tackle the “triple wall of privilege.”
Answer
$600$600
Scoreboard
What is the “New New
Freedom?”Freedom?”
$600$600
Scoreboard
This new agency closely monitored the activities
of businesses in interstate commerce and could issue “cease and
desist” orders.Answer
$800$800
Scoreboard
What is the Federal Trade Federal Trade Commission?Commission?
$800$800
Scoreboard
Place a bet between $200 to $2000 (or higher if you have
more money)
Question
Wilson appointed this legal giant as the first
Jew to the Supreme Court.
Answer
$1000$1000
Scoreboard
Who is Louis Louis Brandeis?Brandeis?
$1000$1000
Scoreboard
This new voting method allowed
people to cast their votes privately, out of the watchful eyes of political machines.
Answer
$200$200
Scoreboard
What is the Australian Australian
Ballot (or secret Ballot (or secret ballot)?ballot)?
$200$200
Scoreboard
As a result of this amendment, the
voters of each state could now elect their
senators.
Answer
$400$400
Scoreboard
What is the Seventeenth Seventeenth Amendment?Amendment?
$400$400
Scoreboard
After a 1906 hurricane and tidal wave in
Galveston, Texas, the city reformed itself by
developing this.
Answer
$600$600
Scoreboard
What is the Commission Commission
System?System?
$600$600
Scoreboard
Answer
$800$800
Many of this governor’s reforms in
the “Wisconsin Experiment” were
later instituted by the federal government.
Scoreboard
Who is Robert Robert La Follette?La Follette?
$800$800
Scoreboard
Answer
$1000$1000
This 1911 tragedy convinced New York and other cities to improve working
conditions in sweatshops.
Scoreboard
$1000$1000
What is the Triangle Triangle
Shirtwaist Shirtwaist Co. FireCo. Fire?
Scoreboard
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.
Answer
$200$200
Scoreboard
What is the Child Labor Child Labor
Act?Act?
$200$200
Scoreboard
This law created such controversy in the
Republican party that it split during the election of 1912.
Answer
$400$400
Scoreboard
What is the Payne-Aldrich Payne-Aldrich Tariff, 1910?Tariff, 1910?
$400$400
Scoreboard
Answer
$600$600
Scoreboard
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?
$600$600
Scoreboard
Place a bet between $200 to $2000 (or higher if you have
more money)
Question
Answer
$800$800
President Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace
Prize in 1906 for mediating an end to
this war.
Scoreboard
What is the Russo-Russo-
Japanese Japanese War?War?
$800$800
Scoreboard
Answer
$1000$1000
This organization was created as a
result of Woodrow Wilson’s
Fourteenth Point. Scoreboard
What is the League of League of Nations?Nations?
$1000$1000
Scoreboard
Make your wager on a sheet of paper.
Category: Category: ImperialismImperialism
Ultimate QuestionScoreboard
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.
Ultimate QuestionUltimate Question
AnswerScoreboard
What are Hawaii, Hawaii,
Philippines, Philippines, Guam & Puerto Guam & Puerto
RicoRico
Ultimate QuestionUltimate Question
Scoreboard Back to Question