Important People
The steel tycoon
Andrew Carnegie
The assassination of _________ was one of the main events at the end of the Civil War and the beginning of Reconstruction
Abraham Lincoln
The __________ stopped all people from that country from coming to the United States
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
This island was won by the U.S. after the Spanish-American War and remains a U.S. commonwealth to this day
Puerto Rico
Someone who moves from one country to another
The oil tycoon
John D. Rockefeller
The sinking of the ________ was exaggerated by "yellow journalist" newspapers, causing the U.S. to go to war with Spain
The Food and Drug Act of 1906 was created to solve the issue of...
Unsafe or Unsanitary Food
Formerly an independent kingdom, taken over by the U.S. in 1898 during the reign of Queen Liliuokalani
Hawai'i
A business that has no competition and dominates their market
Monopoly
This U.S. president fought in the Spanish-American War, was shot in his chest, and was known as "the Progressive"
Theodore Roosevelt
This workplace disaster took place in NYC and was so devastating since there was no safe way of exiting the building
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
The 13th Amendment was created following the Civil War to end _______
slavery
Bought from Russia for $7.2 million, known as "Seward's Folly" until oil was found there
Alaska
When a country tries to gain more influence and power in other places in the world
Imperialism
One of the most famous "muckrakers", ______ took pictures in tenements to expose poor living conditions
The Haymarket Square Bombing that took place in ______ started because of a workers strike, which caused an anarchist to throw a bomb into the crowd
Chicago
Laws that were created to stop African-Americans from exercising voting rights and pushing for equality were called
Jim Crow laws
The Platt Amendment enabled the U.S. to intervene freely in _____, but became useless after a revolution in the 1950s led by Fidel Castro
Cuba
Belief that those born in one's country are better, often tied into the fear of foreigners (xenophobia)
Nativism
The largest president in U.S. history, famous for "dollar diplomacy" and getting stuck in the White House bathtub
William Howard Taft
The assassination of ______ took place in Buffalo and was done by Polish anarchist Leon Czolgosz, leading to Theodore Roosevelt becoming president
The __________ gave the U.S. the right to intervene in any and all affairs within Latin American countries
Roosevelt Corollary
Known as the Steel City, this city became the home of Andrew Carnegie's company as well as Carnegie-Mellon University
Pittsburgh
System where African-Americans could not own land and would instead be stuck in a debt cycle, constantly owing money to their landlord
Sharecropping