1. Jeopardy: Imperialism, Progressivism & WWI
Rise of a Superpower
The Progressive Era
WWI: Origins
WWI: Impact 1 2 3 4 5

2. IMPERIALISM - 1
The U.S. purchased this piece of land, known as “Seward’s Ice-Box” from Russia in 1867 for $7.2 million.
Alaska
Category

3. IMPERIALISM - 2
The Open Door Notes, written by Secretary of State, John Hay argued that the U.S. should have unfettered access to markets in what nation?
China
Category

4. IMPERIALISM - 3
This U.S. Navy Admiral argued that whatever nation controls the seas will control the world in his influential book The Influence of Sea Power Upon History
Alfred Thayer Mahan

5. IMPERIALISM- 4
This 1890 piece of legislation strongly influenced American businessmen in Hawaii to obtain American annexation.
McKinley Tariff

6. IMPERIALISM - 5
The Roosevelt Corollary built off of what established American foreign policy?
Monroe Doctrine

7. SUPERPOWER - 1
This treaty signed in 1898 formally ended the Spanish-American War?
Treaty of Paris

8. SUPERPOWER - 2
America’s actions in the Philippines garnered much opposition, this opposition was led by this man who believed that the United States had promised independence.
Emilio Aguinaldo

9. SUPERPOWER - 3
Former President Grover Cleveland, Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan, Jane Addams and Mark Twain were leading members of this group which opposed America’s entrance into the Spanish-American War.
The Anti-Imperialist League

10. SUPERPOWER - 4
Prior to the construction of the Panama Canal, the United States offered Panama assistance in its liberation from what Latin American nation.
Colombia

11. SUPERPOWER - 5 List the components of the Treaty of Paris.
Spain frees Cuba
Guam and Puerto Rico belong to U.S.
Philippines sold to U.S. for $20 Million

12. The Progressive Era - 1
Identify the four major themes of the Progressive Movement
protecting social welfare
promoting moral improvement
creating economic reform
fostering efficiency

13. The Progressive Era - 2
This Muckraking journalist exposed the lack of sanitation in the meatpacking industry in his famous book The Jungle.
Upton Sinclair

14. The Progressive Era - 3
In 1911, New York City, this event which led to the deaths of nearly 150 workers inspired a surge of progressive legislation including work place safety and minimum wage.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

15. The Progressive Era - 4
This President used of the “Bully Pullpit” to communicate his legislative agenda directly to the American people.
Theodore Roosevelt

16. The Progressive Era - 5
The election of 1912 consisted of four major candidates; please identify each candidate and their political affiliation.
Eugene Debs (Socialist)
Woodrow Wilson (Democrat)
William Howard Taft (Republican)
Teddy Roosevelt (Bull Moose)

17. WWI: ORIGINS - 1 Complete the acronym. Militarism Alliances
Nationalism
Imperialism
Assassination

18. WWI: ORIGINS - 2 List the Allies France, England, Russia, U.S.
List the Central Powers
Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire

19. WWI: ORIGINS - 3
The sinking of this British liner by a German U-Boat greatly outraged Americans and strengthened ties with Great Britain.
The Lusitania

20. WWI: ORIGINS - 4
Germany promised to help Mexico recover “lost territory in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona” in this document which was intercepted by the British government and quickly dispatched to the United States.
The Zimmerman Note

21. WWI: ORIGINS - 5
Prior to World War I, this country regarded itself as “protector of the Serbs.”
Russia

22. WWI: IMPACT - 1
In an effort to limit disloyalty Congress passed these two laws in 1917, which some believe violated the first amendment.
Espionage & Sedition Acts

23. WWI: IMPACT - 2
Once Wilson received Congressional approval for the war, George Creel headed up this agency, responsible for popularizing the war.
Committee on Public Information

24. WWI: IMPACT - 3
Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points supported the belief that groups that claimed distinct ethnic identities were to form their own nation-states.
Self-Determination

25. WWI: IMPACT - 4
Please list the “Big Four” of the Versailles peace process and identify the country to which they belonged.
Woodrow Wilson (U.S.)
David Lloyd George (England)
Georges Clemenceau (France)
Vittorio Orlando (Italy)

26. WWI: IMPACT - 5
The Germans felt humiliated following the Treaty of Versailles, please list three major outcomes of the Treaty of Versailles on the Germans.
War Guilt Clause
Reparations
Loss of colonies