The Gilded Age
What is laissez faire capitalism?
This was implemented by state governments during the Progressive Era to increase citizens' control of their state and local governments(three possible answers).
What is initiative, referendum, or recall?
This refers to when a stronger country exerts its economic, political, or military strength over weaker countries/territories:
What is imperialism?
A style of newspaper reporting that emphasized sensationalism over facts.
What was yellow journalism?
This term was used to describe monopolists when they restricted the rights of workers to form unions or use their power to influence the government to create policies favorable to their interests.
Who are Robber Barons?
In the early 20th century, this group of people was able to influence American society by exposing corruption in business and government, primarily through newspapers and journalistic contributions.
Who were the muckrakers?
This foreign policy by President Teddy Roosevelt depended on strong military to achieve America's goal.
What was the "Big Stick" diplomacy.
The explosion of this naval vessel drew the U.S. into war with Spain.
What was the U.S.S Maine?
This group of people argued for legislation(ex: the Chinese Exclusion Act) to restrict the amount of immigrants entering the U.S.
Who were the Nativists?
This constitutional amendment granted women suffrage.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This term refers to the belief that it was the responsibility of Europeans and Americans to “civilize” the “inferior races” of the world
The U.S. gained access to this large and populated archipelago in the Pacific after the Spanish-American War.
What is the Philippine Islands?
This concept used evolutionary principles to justify why men, such as Carnegie and Rockefeller, should have a lot of wealth, while a large portion of the nation was impoverished.
What is Social Darwinism?
This novel described the living and working conditions in the meat-packing factories.
What is the Jungle by Upton Sinclair?
This policy was created to make sure that the U.S. could be involved in trade with China.
What was the Open Door Policy?
This president asked Congress to declare war on Spain in 1898.
Who was William McKinley?
This business process involved a business or person controlling every stage of production. This was utilized by Carnegie in the Steel Industry.
What is vertical integration?
The efforts of the Temperance Movement led to this change with alcohol, initiated by the 18th Amendment.
What was prohibition?
This future state was seized by American missionaries and plantation owners with the help of the American military in the late 1800s.
What is Hawaii?
Teddy Roosevelt led this cavalary in a successful charge in the Spanish colony of Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
Who were the Rough Riders?