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A key factor driving U.S. engagement in World War I was ________.

The late 1890s saw the height of ________, in which newspapers such as the New York Journal, led by William Randolph Hearst, and the New York World, published by Joseph Pulitzer, competed for readership with sensationalistic stories.

African American poet, playwright, and novelist of the realist period, ___________  dealt with issues of race at a time when most reform-minded Americans preferred to focus on other issues.

Political philosopher ___________ took Darwin’s theory of evolution further, coining the actual phrase “survival of the fittest,” and later helping to popularize the phrase social Darwinism to posit that society evolved much like a natural organism, wherein some individuals will succeed due to racially and ethnically inherent traits, and their ability to adapt.

The ________ of the early 1920s gave rise to the first generation of movie stars.

On the eve of ________, the country lacked the means to establish a strong position in international diplomacy.

Republican President Herbert Hoover became president at a time of ________ in the country. 

________ was ruthless in his pursuit of total control of the oil refining business.

________ causes fell under the Progressive label.

________ drew public attention to some of the most glaring inequities and scandals that grew out of the social ills of the Gilded Age and the hands-off approach of the federal government since the end of Reconstruction. These writers by and large addressed a White, middle-class and elite, native-born audience, even though Progressive movements and organizations involved a diverse range of Americans.