Moving Around
This New York Harbor island processed millions of arriving immigrants starting in 1892.
What is Ellis Island?
Andrew Carnegie made an enormous fortune in this metal industry, which allowed the construction of railroads and skyscrapers.
What is steel?
The 18th Amendment banned the making and selling of alcohol, a period known by this name.
What is prohibition?
When a powerful nation extends its control over weaker countries or territories, it is practicing this.
What is imperialism?
Henry Ford made cars affordable by using this production method and the Model T.
What is the assembly line?
In the late 1800s, millions of Americans left farms and moved to cities, a trend known by this term.
What is urbanization?
When one company, like Rockefeller’s Standard Oil, controls nearly an entire industry, it has formed one of these.
What is a monopoly?
Ratified in 1920, this amendment gave women the right to vote nationwide.
What is the 19th Amendment?
The U.S. gained the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico after winning this 1898 war.
What is the Spanish-American War?
Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington helped popularize this lively music genre of the 1920's.
What is jazz?
This term describes favoring native-born Americans over immigrants, often driven by fear of “foreign” cultures and job competition.
What is nativism?
When workers refuse to work until their demands for better pay or conditions are met, they are doing this.
What is a strike?
This reform movement of the early 1900s worked to improve problems like corruption, unsafe working conditions, and women's rights.
What is progressivism?
"Speak softly and carry a big stick" was the foreign policy of this U.S. President, who supported imperialism.
Who is Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt?
This name was given to FDR's plan to recover the US economy.
What is The New Deal?
In the early 1900s, millions of African Americans left the rural South for cities like Chicago and Detroit in this movement.
What is the Great Migration?
This incident, worsened by unsafe working conditions and locked doors, led to the deaths of over 100 workers in 1911.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
Reformers like Upton Sinclair, who wrote The Jungle, earned this nickname for exposing corruption and unsafe conditions in the press.
Who are muckrakers?
This type of publishing spread misinformation in order to boost support for the Spanish-American War.
What is yellow journalism?
What is laissez-faire?
In 1882, Congress passed this first major law banning a specific nationality of workers from entering the U.S.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Passed in 1890, this law was the first federal attempt to break up monopolies and trusts.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Ratified in 1913, this amendment lets voters, rather than state legislatures, choose U.S. senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
The five main causes of World War I can be remembered with the acronym 'MANIA'. Name any two of them.
In 1929, this event started the Great Depression.
What was Black Tuesday / Stock Market Crash?