Laws and Inventions
The Bessemer Process made what strong material cheaper and faster that helped build railroads, bridges, and the first skyscrapers.
Steel
A rush of people who traveled to the West hoping to get rich quickly by finding gold.
Gold Rush
Follow up question - How did settlement and mining of settlers affect territory in the West?
Ratified in 1920, this amendment granted women the constitutional right to vote in the United States.
19th Amendment
Don't forget: Suffrage = The Right to Vote
What waterway increased trade and reduced travel time between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
The Panama Canal
In 1917, President Wilson declared war on Germany due to their unrestricted _______________ warfare and sinking of neutral ships like the Lusitania where innocent Americans were killed.
Submarine
This invention allowed factories to stay open later by providing artificial lighting, increasing production and allowing workers to work longer hours.
Light Bulb or Electric Lighting
This form of transportation helped businesses ship goods faster and cheaper, connected cities and towns, and encouraged westward expansion in the United States.
Railroad
Ratified in 1913, this amendment gave Congress the power to collect a federal income tax.
16th Amendment
Alfred Thayer Mahan believed we had to have a strong _______ in order for our nation to become a world power.
Navy
In 1917, this secret message from Germany proposed an alliance with Mexico against the United States and helped push America toward entering World War I.
Zimmerman Telegram
Passed in 1882, this law banned most Chinese laborers from immigrating to the United States and reflected growing anti-Chinese discrimination. This was an example of nativism.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Factory workers went on strike for three main reasons. What are they?
Better pay, shorter workdays, and safer working conditions
Jane Addams was a social reformed who founded the Hull House in Chicago in 1889. The Hull House provided education and childcare to which group of people?
Immigrants or Those in Poverty
Territory that was ceded to the United States as a result of winning the Spanish-American War as written in the Treaty of Paris.
During World War I, soldiers wore protective devices to protect their lungs against what new type of weapon?
Poison Gas
Passed in 1862, this law allowed settlers to claim up to 160 acres of public land if they lived on it and improved it for five years.
The Homestead Act
The Carlisle Indian School led to the _________ of Native American children. It took away their culture and choice of religion, language, and dress.
Assimilation
What group of people did Elizabeth Cady Stanton want to have more say or voice in the government?
Women
Sandford B. Dole argued that the annexation of __________________ would benefit the United States because we would gain bases in Pacific Ocean and have access to resources such as fruit and sugar.
Hawaii
During WWI, life on the Homefront was different. Americans conserved food and bought less in stores and ______________ were hired to fill company and factory jobs.
Women
Passed in 1887, this act divided Native American tribal lands into individual plots to encourage assimilation and opened remaining lands to non-Native settlers.
Dawes Act
The growth of these two things led to the closing of the frontier by increasing settlement and reducing the amount of unsettled land in the West.
___________ Migration
Expansion of ______________
Westward Migration and Expansion of Railroads
Upton Sinclair was a muckraking journalist who wrote The Jungle in 1906 exposing the unsafe conditions in what industry? This led to food safety reforms.
Meatpacking Industry
This foreign policy of President Theodore Roosevelt used diplomacy while maintaining a strong military to protect American interests and increase U.S. influence.
WWI started in Europe first and the U.S. was not a part of it. What are the M.A.I.N. reasons why war broke out in Europe?
Militarism - Countries building up armies
Alliances - Each country had back up
Imperialism - Countries wanted power/to expand
Nationalism - Countries were prideful and/or wanted independence