This Republican president helped to restore the power and influence of the presidency in American politics and society, though his immediate successor had a much greater effect
Who is William McKinley?
100
This "splendid little war" expanded America's territory and established it as a minor imperial power
What is the Spanish American War?
100
Though little-used for the first few years of its existance, this critical monopoly-busting legislation was heavily used by Roosevelt and Taft to increase business competition
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
100
This system of party loyalty-based rewards allowed winning politicans and parties to hand out jobs
What is the "spoils system?"
100
This "writing machine" revolutionized the publishing and jounalism world
What is the typewriter?
200
This Sioux leader led his follwers in the Great Sioux War and was later shot by police due to fears that he would support the "Ghost Dance" movement
Who is Sitting Bull?
200
This "last hurrah" for Native American rebels proved a temporary humiliating defeat for the US Military but was the beginning of the end for Indian insurrectionists
What is Custer's Last Stand?
200
This important piece of legislation allowed settlers to be granted a piece of Federal land that they lived on and took care of for a certain amount of time
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
200
This racist philosophy argued that genetics determined a "people's" place in the world and their right to power
What is social darwinism?
200
This aspect of public education univeralized schooling for all Americans
What is compulsary attendance?
300
This railroad tycoon bought up many rail companys throughout the east and was considered a "robber baron"
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
300
This final American gold rush to "Seward's Folly" did much to help build up America's "last frontier"
What was the Alaska Gold Rush?
300
This first law to regulate private industry in the history of the United States was aimed at controlling runaway railroad rates
What is the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887?
300
This fiscal policy was heavily supported by poor, debt-ridden farmers who hoped widespread inflation would ease their financial troubles
What is the silver standard?
300
This famous scientist revolutionized the way we understood how humans became ill
Who is Louis Pasteur
400
This influential historian's thesis argued that the west had "closed up" forever and that a critical chapter in American history was over
Who is Frederick Jackson Turner?
400
This series of Chicago strikes got rid of a lot of good will the country felt for organized labor, as many felt that escalating violence against police went to far
What are the haymarket riots?
400
This McKinley-era legislation increased the import tax on foreign goods (especially wool) to the higest rates in American History
What is the Dingley Tariff?
400
This racist policy allowed whites to circumvent the legal policies that kept freed blacks from voting in the South
What are "grandfather clauses?"
400
This new field of academic study revolutionized the way we thought about the way we thought
What is psychology?
500
"Maple Leaf Rag," this composer's most famous composition, provided America with its first true "number one hit"
Who is Scott Joplin?
500
This severe economic depression was the result of railroad overbuilding and speculation, and resulted in a very different type of "gold rush"
What is the Panic of 1893?
500
This attempt to break up Indian land into small plots and encourage Native American assimilation into white culture through private land ownership was largely a failure, and was revoked by FDR in the 1930s
What is the Dawes Severalty Act?
500
This anti-labor policy argued that wages should be based purely on supply/demand
What is the "iron law of wages?"
500
This railway revolution made it possible for trains to be transfered to any line regardless of who build it