Gilded Age
Shiny on the outside; rotten on the inside
What is the definition of "gilded"?
Leader of the "Rough Riders"
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
Railroad across the US
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
The leader of Germany during WWI
Who is Kaiser Wilhelm?
Became president as a result of the Compromise of 1877
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
Immigrants from Frnace, Germany, England and Ireland
What are "old immigrants"?
American warship sunk in Havana Harbor
What is the USS Maine?
Theory that individuals, groups, and people are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection.
What is Social Darwinism?
Militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism
What were the long-term causes of WWI?
Supreme Court case that created separate but equal
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Immigrants from Bulgaria, Russia, and Greece
What are "new immigrants"?
A country owned or controlled by a mother country
What is a colony?
Journalists exposing the horrible living and working conditions of the poor
What are muckrakers?
The most decorated soldier in WWI
Who is Alvin C. York?
Officially ended slavery
What is the 13th amendment?
J.D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Pierre DuPont, Cornelius Vanderbilt
Who are the captains of industry or who are robber barons?
The US paid $20 million for this country
What is the Philippines?
Processing center for immigration into the US that sat outside New York City.
What is Ellis Island?
The leader of the American Expeditionary Force
Who is John J. Pershing?
Laws denying most lefal rights to newly freed slaves
What are black codes/Jim Crow laws
One company owns all the cows > trains to transport cows > all meat processing factories
What is a vertical monopoly?
President Taft's foreign policy of giving money to foreign countries
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
A “hands-off” government policy towards the economy which allowed business to be unrestrained.
What is Laissez-faire?
14 Point Plan
What is President Wilson's plan for peace after the war?
System where farmers worked the land but had to share the profits with the owner of the farm
What is sharecropping?