People
Owner of Standard Oil Company. One of the richest men in American
John D. Rockefeller
Type of warfare used in WWI that quickly reached a stalemate
trench
Term used to describe the period of corruption and the fancy lives of the rich after Reconstruction
Gilded Age
Cramped, poorly built apartment buildings inhabited by many immigrants in the large urban cities.
Tenement houses
nationalism
Owner of leading RR in the nation; consolidated many smaller railroads into a large monopoly on northeastern RR traffic.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Group of countries who formed the Triple Entente during WWI- Britain, France, Russia
Allies
Movement to reform society between 1890s-1920
Progressive Era
State & local laws that enforced racial segregation in the South
Jim Crow laws
Exaggerated news to lure readers; one of the reasons for the Spanish-American War
yellow journalism
Middle class reformer who founded Hull House as a place to help immigrants in their new home
Jane Addams
Peace-keeping organization formed after WWI
League of Nations
Ended the Spanish-American War; US got Philippines, Guam, & Puerto Rico
Treaty of Paris 1898
Law that gave 160 acres of land for $10 if they lived on the land for 5 years & improved it
Homestead Act
imperialism
Wrote a book about the living conditions of the poor called "How the Other Half Lives"
Jacob Riis
Wilson's speech or plan for postwar world; included no secret treaties, lower tariffs, reduce armaments
Fourteen Points
This ship was blown in the Havana Harbor; one of the major reasons for US fighting Spain
USS Maine
Wrote "Century of Dishonor" that exposed the gov'ts broken promises and treaties with the Native Americans
Helen Hunt Jackson
Union that only accepted skilled workers. Led by Sameul Gompers
American Federation of Labor
He wrote "The Jungle" which exposed the horrors of the meat packing industry
Upton Sinclair
Attempt to get Mexico involved in war vs. the US- one of the reasons US entered the war
Method of forming a big business by controlling all the same type of business
horizontal integration
Famous for "Cross of Gold" speech; ran for president in the 1896 election
William Jennings Bryan
Law that attempted to regulate efforts of big business by declaring trusts to be illegal. Passed in 1890
Sherman Anti-Trust Act