Gilded Age
Bombing that would contribute to a negative view of labor unions.
What was the Haymarket Square bombing?
Amendment that gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
War that would result in the United States receiving the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
What was the Spanish American War?
What is laissez faire?
Amendment that led to direct elections of senators.
What is the 17th amendment?
Idea established that the United States and other Western powers will have access to China.
What is Open Door policy?
Philosophy that the accumulation of wealth can be good for society.
Exam to help stop the corruption caused by the spoils system.
What are civil service exams?
Who was Alfred T. Mahan?
Biggest example of a political boss and corruption of politics during the gilded age.
Who was Boss Tweed?
Example of journalism that uncovers corruption by businesses and government.
What was muckraking?
Zone or territory taken from Colombia by Teddy Roosevelt for the economic improvement of U.S. shipping.
What is the Panama Canal zone?
Law that would attempt assimilation of Native Americans but resulted in Land taken from native trbes.
What was the Dawes Act
Laws that were established to improve society by encouraging and discouraging certain people to have children.
What were eugenics laws?
Series of court rulings that established the idea that people in territories that were taken by the U.S. did not have the protections under the U.S. Constitution.
What were the Insular cases?