Gilded Age
American Imperialism
WW1
Key people
Innovations
100

This trend during the Gilded Age allowed for the creation of many businesses and massive increase in production in the US.

What is Industrialization?

100

This war gave the US new colonial territories pushing the US to become a world power.

What is the Spanish American War?

100

This Message between Germany and Mexico prompted the United States to enter WW1 on the Allied side.

What is the Zimmermann telegram?

100

Creator of the Standard oil trust which monopolized the oil and gas industry during the Gilded age

John D. Rockefeller

100
A new technology that allowed for faster communication and precursor to the Telephone.

What is the telegram?

200

This political policy allowed businesses and people to live generally unregulated by the government.

What is Laisses-faire policy?

200

These places were territorial claims given to the US after defeating the Spanish in 1898.

Guan, Puerto Rico, The Philippines, Cuba

200

This war tactic used by Germany in WW1 blocked resources from reaching British and French ports in the Atlantic but drove a wedge between the US and Germany after the sinking of the passenger ship Lusitania.

What is unrestricted Submarine warfare?

200

The Creator of the Gospel of Wealth and owner of US steel trust

Who is Andrew Carnegie?

200

This innovation allowed for the rapid transportation of goods, people, and ideas westward across the North American continent.

What is the Transcontinental Railroad?

300

This trend led to the rapid increase of population is American cities

What is Urbanization?

300

This document stated that European nations could no longer attempt to colonize Middle or South American lands.

What is the Monroe Doctrine?

300

This policy prevented the US form joining WW1 until it became obvious that the Central Powers were a threat to the US.

What is Neutrality (Isolation)?
300

Sugar and Fruit importer who pushed for the Annexation of Hawaii.

Sandford B. Dole

300

This innovation used compressed air to create a strong type of steel more quickly than previous methods?

What is the Bessemer Steel process?

400

These dominated business and politics during the gilded age often forming monopiles or creating illegal agreements with other companies.

What are Corporations (trusts)? 

400

The statement of principles initiated by the United States in 1899 and 1900 to protect equal privileges among countries trading in China while supporting China's territorial integrity.

What is the Open Door Policy?

400

This War tactic was used to help soldiers move around the battlefield while remaining covered and safe from enemies? 

What is trench warfare?

400

Three muckrakers the worked to end racial oppression and violence against African Americans.

Who are Ida B. Wells, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois

400

This innovation helped section off land in the Great Plains region of the US leading to a massive increase in ranching and the cattle industry.

What is Barbed Wire?

500

This trend driven by pull factors such as land and jobs helped increase the US population in the Gilded age

What is Immigration?

500

Theodore Roosevelt added this idea, stating that the U.S. was justified in attempting to influence Latin American countries if they directly affected the U.S.

What is the Roosevelt Corollary?

500

These three technologies made pervious war tactics obsoletely and force armies to develop new ways of fighting. 

What are airplanes, tanks, chemical weapons?

500

This man became President of the US after participating in the Spanish American war and created laws to conserve natural resources, break up big businesses, and expand control of North and South America

Theodore Roosevelt

500

These political innovations allowed US citizens to have more power over the Government.

What are, Recalls, Referendums, Initiatives?
600

Deep distrust or hatred of foreigners 

What is Nativism?

600

This infrastructure project was built in another country to help the US quickly move ships from the Pacific to Atlantic Ocean and back.

What is the Panama Canal?

600

This acronym for the primary causes of World War I,

What is Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism. 

600

This man ran for President on a policy of isolation but later declared war on the Central powers

Who is Woodrow Willson?

600

These business innovations allowed industrialists, like J. P. Morgan, Rockefeller, Carriage, and Vanderbilt to create massive companies and avoid competition.

What are Horizontal and Vertical integration?

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