Key Dates

Question 1

What year started the lengthy period of Republican political dominance?

Answer 1

1896. McKinley.

Question 2

What year does Theodore Roosevelt become president?

Answer 2

1901 after the assassination of McKinley

Question 3

What year was the Platt amendment passed by congress?

Answer 3

1901

Question 4

What year did Roosevelt proclaim the Roosevelt corollary to the Monroe Doctrine after establishing US influence over Panama?

Answer 4

1904

Question 5

What year did the Russo-Japanese war end?

Answer 5

1905. Roosevelt acts a mediator

Question 6

What year did the republican part split

Answer 6

1912. Roosevelt runs for progressives. Ensuring the defeat of president Taft

Question 7

What year did Woodrow Wilson come into power?

Answer 7

1912. Democrats.

Question 8

What year did Wilson send US forces to occupy the port of Vera Cruz?

Answer 8

1914

Question 9

What year did the Lusitania sink?

Answer 9

1915. Worsened relations with Germany.

Question 10

What year did the film ‘birth of a nation’ become popular?

Answer 10

1915. Gave a favourable impression of the KKK

Question 11

What year was the discovery of the Zimmerman telegraph?

Answer 11

1917. Pushes the USA into entering WW1.

Question 12

What year was the espionage act passed?

Answer 12

1917.

Question 13

What year was the Volstead act?

Answer 13

1919 brings in the era of prohibition.

Question 14

When where thousands of arrests made due to the red scare?

Answer 14

1919.

Question 15

When was Sacco and Vanzetti?

Answer 15

1920.

Question 16

What year was Wilson’s attempt to join the League of Nations?

Answer 16

1920.

Question 17

What year did Harding with the election?

Answer 17

1920. Republican. ‘Normalcy’

Question 18

When was the Washington Naval conference?

Answer 18

1922. Agreed restriction on building battleships

Question 19

What year does Coolidge become prime minister?

Answer 19

1923 after the death of Harding

Question 20

What year was the Sherman Anti-trust act passed?

Answer 20

1890

Question 21

What year was the national origins quota act?

Answer 21

1924. Quotas for immigration into the USA are tightened.

Question 22

What year did the US stock market reach record heights?

Answer 22

1928.

Question 23

What year was the Kellogg-Briand pact?

Answer 23

1928. Attempted to secure international agreement to renounce war.

Question 24

What year did Herbert Hoover become president?

Answer 24

1928.

Question 25

What year was the Wall Street Crash?

Answer 25

1929.