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A term that describes a business that dominates an industry and faces little or no competition (common in the late 1800's and early 1900's).
2X Bonus: Name the exceedingly large company founded by J.D. Rockerfeller.
What is a Monopoly?
2X Bonus: Standard Oil
This era, following the Civil War, attempted to rebuild the South and establish citizenship rights for formerly enslaved people.
2X BONUS: Name the amendment that established birthright citizenship and equal protection.
What is Reconstruction?
2X BONUS: the 14th Amendment
This system of laws enforced racial segregation in the American South.
5X BONUS: Name the Supreme Court decision that upheld separate-but-equal segregation.
What is "Jim Crow"?
5X BONUS: Plessy v. Ferguson
Progressive journalists who exposed corruption and social problems were known by this nickname.
4X BONUS: Name one specific muckraker.
Who were the Muckrakers?
BONUS: Ida Tarbell, Ida B Wells, Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair, Jacob Riis, etc
The Women's Suffrage movement fought for, and eventually won this essential democratic right.
4X BONUS: What amendment to the constitution eventually enshrined this right as law?
What is Voting?
4X BONUS: 19th Amendment
This war was fought between the United States and Filipino independence fighters after the Spanish American War.
5X BONUS: Name one of the Islands obtained by the United States after the Spanish American War that WAS NOT Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Cuba, Guam or Hawaii.
What was The Philippine-American War?
5X BONUS: The Marshall Islands, American Samoa, Wake Island, etc.This essay argued that wealthy individuals had a responsibility to use their fortunes for the public good.
4X Bonus: Name the famous industrialist that authored this essay.
What is The Gospel of Wealth?
4X Bonus: Andrew Carnegie
During this era, the United States increasingly acquired overseas territories and asserted itself as a world power.
2X BONUS: Identify two territories acquired from Spain in 1898.
What is Imperialism or the Imperial Era?
2X BONUS: Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico
his 1882 federal law restricted immigration based on nationality.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This photographer and journalist exposed New York City's tenement conditions in How the Other Half Lives.
2X BONUS: Name the process of rapid population growth in cities that helped produce these conditions.
Who is Jacob Riis?
2X BONUS: UrbanizationThis 1902 strike marked the first time the federal government remained neutral in labor negotiations, forcing Business and Labor work out a deal.
5X Bonus: Name one other significant American strike from the late 1800's where the Federal government used military force against strikers.
What was the Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902?
5X BONUS: Haymarket, Pullman, Great Railroad Strike, etc.
This Kingdom was overthrown by American sugar companies in the 1890's, eventually leading to Annexation by the United States to provide a naval base for the Spanish-American War.
8X BONUS: Who was the Queen of this Kingdom that continued to fight against Annexation until her death in 1917.
What is Hawai'i?
8X BONUS: Queen Lili'uokalani
This business structure allowed J.D. Rockefeller to bring multiple companies under centralized control.
4X BONUS: Name the 1890 federal law designed to prevent the consolidation of these large businesses?
What is a Trust?
4X BONUS: The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
This era was named for its glittering surface of wealth and prosperity that concealed deep social problems.
8X BONUS: Name the famous author who gave the era its name?
What is the Gilded Age?
8X BONUS: Mark Twain
This constitutional amendment established the direct election of U.S. senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This Black journalist investigated lynching and challenged the racial violence of the Jim Crow South.
10X BONUS: Name one the publications she wrote exposing lynching.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
10X Bonus: Southern Horrors or A Red Record
This 1911 New York City disaster killed 146 garment workers, most of them young immigrant women.
5X BONUS: Identify two workplace reforms the disaster helped inspire.
What was The Trianlge Shirtwaiste Factory Fire?
5X: Fire safety regulations, improved exits, workplace inspections, etc.
5X BONUS: Name the Rebellion in China that resulted from this Policy.
What was the Open Door Policy?
The Boxer Rebellion
This "theory" applied ideas about competition and survival of the fittest to justify inequality in human society.
4X BONUS: British Imperialist and Author Rudyard Kipling "positively" applied this idea, and asked the United States to take up what?
What is Social Darwinism?
4X BONUS: "The White Man's Burden"
This era saw reformers attempt to use government, journalism, and organized activism to address the problems of industrial society.
3X BONUS: Identify one of these government reforms
What is Progressivism?
3X BONUS: Food Regulation, Anti-Trust, Direct Election of Senators, etc
The belief that certain people are incapable of having rights due to their race is known as what?
4X BONUS: This 1901 series of Supreme Court decisions addressed whether constitutional rights automatically extended to people living in newly acquired territories.
What is Racial Paternalism?
4X BONUSL What were the Insular Cases?
This author exposed the meatpacking industry in his 1906 novel The Jungle.
5X BONUS: Name both major federal food-safety laws passed in 1906.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
5X BONUS: Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
This 1887 federal law attempted to assimilate Native Americans by dividing tribal lands into individual allotments.
Name the 1890 massacre where US Soldiers open fire into 300 Lakota men, women, and children.
What was the Dawes Act?
Wounded KneeThis 1899 speech by Senator Albert Beveridge defended American expansion into the Philippines.
5X BONUS: Identify TWO distinct justifications Beveridge offered for expansion.
What is "March of the Flag"?
5X BONUS: Commercial/Markets, Strategic Power, Paternalism, Religion, National Destiny/Patriotism.
This term describes the use of financial investment and economic influence to advance American foreign policy.
5X BONUS: Name the president most closely associated with this policy.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
5X BONUS: William Howard Taft
This president promised Americans a "Square Deal" and challenged powerful corporate trusts.
10X BONUS: Name the President whose assassination brough the above president to office.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
10X BONUS: William McKinley
This 1901 amendment limited Cuba's sovereignty by allowing extensive American intervention.
5X BONUS: Name the American Naval base that was acquired permanently from Cuba, still used today to hold prisoners of the War on Terror.
What was the Platt Amendment?
5X BONUS: Guantanamo Bay
This form of sensationalized reporting helped shape American public opinion during the crisis with Spain.
10X BONUS: What was the name of the creepy bald comic book character from the later 1800s and early 1900s?
What is Yellow Journalism?
10X BONUS: The Yellow Kid
Name one of the "legal" ways Southern states like Louisiana denied Black voting rights starting in 1898.
10X BONUS: Name the only successful coup in American history, where a white supremacist mob killed the sitting city government, replacing it with an all white extremists that occurred the same year.
Literacy Tests, Poll Taxes, Property Requirements, Grandfather Clauses
The Wilmington Coup and Massacre
This Caribbean island was the focus of an independence struggle against Spain that helped lead to war in 1898.
5X BONUS: Name the American ship that was controversially destroyed near this island, ultimately kicking off the Spanish-American War.
What is Cuba?
5X BONUS: the USS Maine