Vocabulary
a constructed waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans across the Isthmus of Panama
What is panama canal
invented the Model T
What was Henry Ford invention ?
Act allowed the federal government to break up tribal lands
What is the Dawes Act
best-known for there novel "The Jungle"
Upton Sinclair
on the frontline of the settlement house movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Jane Addams
a policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries poitically, socially, and economically.
What is Imperialism ?
spinning jenny
James Hargreaves
Act that rush to settle on free or cheap land in the Great Plains
Homestead Act
launched the Birth Control Review
Margaret Sanger
publicized the crises in housing, education, and poverty at the height of European immigration to New York City in the late nineteenth century.
Jacob A. Riis
the promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism, anarchism or other leftist ideologies by a society or state.
What is the red scare?
cotton gin
Eli Whitney
federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry
Interstate Commerce Act
became America's first billionaire through his oil company
John D. Rockefeller
earned a reputation as a "trust buster" through his regulatory reforms and antitrust prosecutions
Theodore Roosevelt
period of gross materialism and blatant political corruption in U.S. history during the 1870s.
What is the Gilded Age
the second industrialization
Henry Bessemer
the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
gained his wealth through the steel industry
Andrew Carnegie
the Progressive movement with his economic reform package, "the New Freedom."
Woodrow Wilson
unregulated exchange of goods/services would come to help everyone, not just the rich
What is laissez-faire ?
the first industrialization
Britian
created a central banking system, consisting of twelve regional banks governed by the Federal Reserve Board.
Federal Reserve Act
one of the powerful 19th-century American industrialists and financiers who made fortunes by monopolizing huge industries through the formation of trusts
Robber Barons
an ardent peace activist and advocated nuclear disarmament
WEB DuBois