New Industrial Age/ Labor Movement
Immigrants/ Urbanization
The Progressive Era
Imperialism
WWI
100
This industry allowed manufactures to build their factories away from rivers and other water sources.
What is railroads
100
The place where arriving immigrants from Europe were received and processed from 1892 to 1954:
What is Ellis Island
100
This political reform allows voters to vote on a bill after it has been passed by the state legislature.
What is referendum
100
The doctrine did the Roosevelt Corollary built upon?
What is Monroe Doctrine
100
The land between the trenches known as?
What is "No Man's Land"
200
This inventor invented the incandescent light bulb as well as a system to produce and distribute electricity
Who is Thomas Edison
200
By the year 1900, where were the “new” immigrants most likely to have come from
What is Eastern Europe
200
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution allows for the direct election of U.S. Senators.
What is 17th Amendment
200
The name for the policy of conquering other nations to build an empire?
What is Imperialism
200
The refusal to take part in a war between other nations?
What is neutrality
300
Industrial consolidation and trusts were created to reduce ____________ in the late 1800s.
What is competition
300
From what part of the world did most of the immigrants come prior to 1890?
What is Northern and Western Europe
300
The phrase that best describe Roosevelt’s attitude towards trusts
What is "the only good trust is a dead trust"
300
One of the biggest proponents of imperialism was ___________________, who maintained that the US needed to establish bases and gain territory including the control of a canal to connect the Atlantic and Pacific.
Who is Admiral Alfred T. Mahan
300
What helped protect supply ships from German submarines in World War I?
What is Convoy System
400
This person was the first to successfully use the steam engine to drill for oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania.
Who is Edwin Drake
400
Strict fire codes and a maximum 54 hour work week were results of the incident at
What is Triangular Shirtwaist Factory fire
400
This organization was created to operate the monetary policy of the USA.
What is Federal Reserve
400
The United States had a moral responsibility to deny recognition of any Latin America government viewed as oppressive, undemocratic, or hostile to U.S. interests. This was the policy of President Wilson and became known as…
What is “Missionary Diplomacy”
400
The term is used for pulling away from involvement in world affairs?
What is isolationism
500
This attitude/philosophy states that businesses operate best when the government leaves them alone to operate as they wish.
What is laissez-faire
500
This person helped bring down the Tweed Ring with political cartoons
Who is Thomas Nast
500
The first trust that was busted.
What is Northern Securities.
500
Sending the Great White Fleet around the world was an example of
What is Roosevelt’s Big Stick philosophy
500
This contained a suggestion of an alliance between Mexico and Germany that deeply angered the American people.
What is Zimmermann Note
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