Abby Esco's and Jillie's

Question 1

W.E.B. Dubois

Answer 1

American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, and editor
1st African American to get a PhD from Harvard
Launched Niagra Movement and NAACP

Question 2

Frederick Jackson Turner

Answer 2

Wrote “The Significance of the Frontier in American History”
Turner thesis claimed the settlement of the West by Whites was the central story of American history
(Desolate land to modern civilization)

Question 3

Booker T Washington

Answer 3

Founder and president of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
Born into slavery
Became a spokesman for education and blacks

Question 4

Grover Cleveland

Answer 4

The only president to leave the White House and return for a 2nd term four years later (only 2 term not consecutive)
1st democrat elected after the Civil War (1885)

Question 5

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 5

Carnegie Steel = vertical integration
Scottish immigrant who opened steelworks in Pittsburgh
Led the steel industry
Morgan bought his co. and made the United States Steel Co.

Question 6

John D. Rockefeller

Answer 6

Standard Oil Co. of Ohio (largest and most powerful monopoly)
Created the “trust” and a “holding company”

Question 7

William McKinley

Answer 7

(Pres 1896) Gold Standard Act
Victory in 1898 Spanish-American War, annexed Hawaii
Established the open door policy to China
Passed the Dingley Tariff Act
Assassinated in 1901

Question 8

Alfred Mahan

Answer 8

Most effective apostle of imperialism
Captain and admiral in the navy
Wrote The Influence of Sea Power Upon History

Question 9

John Hay

Answer 9

McKinley’s Secretary of State

Called the Spanish American War a “splendid little war”

Question 10

John Pershing

Answer 10

Led the American expeditionary force across the Mexican border in pursuit of Villa
All US troops in WWI under his command

Question 11

Pancho Villa

Answer 11

Led rebel army in Mexico and staged raids across the US border

Question 12

Robert LaFollette ON TERMS SHEET

Answer 12

ON TERMS SHEET
Rand for president in 1924
Turned governor of Wisconsin into a “laboratory of progressivism”
American Republican politician aka “fighting Bob”

Question 13

Theodore Roosevelt

Answer 13

McKinley’s Vice President and youngest man to assume the presidency
Developed the “Square Deal” and “New Nationalism”
Bull Moose Party

Question 14

Woodrow Wilson

Answer 14

President from 1913-1921 led the US into WWI and promised a return to normalcy
Won reelection in 1916 with the saying “he kept us out of war”
Instituted conscription/ draft
Developed 14 points and the League of Nations

Question 15

Warren Harding ON SHEET

Answer 15

ON SHEET
Ohio senator became president in 1921 (elected in 1920)
Republicans called him a “good second-rater”
Teapot Dome Scandal

Question 16

Calvin Coolidge

Answer 16

Succeeded Harding when he died in 1923
Elected president in 1924
Governor of Massachusetts
Less active than Harding

Question 17

Herbert Hoover

Answer 17

Republican, president during 1923-1933 during the Great Depression

Question 18

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Answer 18

32nd president of the US
President during the Great Depression
His recovery program was the New Deal

Question 19

Frances Perkins

Answer 19

American sociologist and workers-rights advocate
Secretary of Labor
First woman appointed to the US cabinet

Question 20

Truman

Answer 20

33rd president
Presided over the victory of World War II
Former Vice President for FDR
Policy of communist containment start the Cold War

Question 21

Hitler

Answer 21

Leader of the Nazi Party

Initiated fascist policies that led to WWII

Question 22

Mussolini

Answer 22

Leader of the National Fascist Party in Italy

Italian Dictator

Question 23

Stalin

Answer 23

Leader of the Soviet Union during WWII

Ruled by terror and transformed peasant society into industrial and military superpower

Question 24

Churchill

Answer 24

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Rallied British people during WWII

Question 25

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Answer 25

34th president

Commanding general of the victorious forces in Europe during WWII

Question 26

John Kennedy

Answer 26

35th president
Youngest man elected
Democratic (I think)
Assassinated in November of 1963

Question 27

Lyndon B. Johnson

Answer 27

36th president

Carried on the rapidly growing struggle to restrain Communist encroachment in Vietnam

Question 28

Richard Nixon

Answer 28

37th president
Became the only president to resign from office
Successfully ended the American fighting in Vietnam
Resigned over the Watergate scandal

Question 29

Douglas MacArthur

Answer 29

American five-star General and field marshal of the Philippine army
Chief of staff of the US Army during the 1930s
Played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during WWII

Question 30

Martin Luther King Jr

Answer 30

American Baptist minister and activist
Leader in the Civil Rights Movement
Advocated nonviolent civil disobedience

Question 31

James Garfield ON SHEET

Answer 31

ON SHEET 20th president
Assassinated after 200 days
Strengthened federal authority over the New York Customs House
Shot by stalwart
A half-breed

Question 32

Benjamin Harrison ON SHEET

Answer 32

ON SHEET 23rd president
Conducted one of the first “front-porch” campaigns
Helped shape the vigorous foreign policy

Question 33

Eugene Debs

Answer 33

American Union leader

Founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World

Question 34

William Taft ON SHEET

Answer 34

ON SHEET 27th president
10th Chief Justice of the US
Only person to have held both offices
Gave the people some participation in government