Vocab
An agreement to stop fighting.
Armistice
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone in what year?
1876
The U.S. becomes a world power by winning what war?
The Spanish-American War
What are Progressives?
A system in which products are made as they move in a line from worker to worker.
Assembly Line
Thomas Edison invents the phonograph in what year?
1877
The U.S. becomes a world power by winning the Spanish-American War and building what?
The Panama Canal
What is yellow journalism?
a dishonest and exaggerated way to tell the news
To travel by air
Aviation
The Wright brothers complete the first flight in what year?
1903
What led the U.S. into War?
Yellow Journalism
This African American women worked to help African Americans obtain their civil rights and end segregation.
Ida B. Wells
the rights guaranteed to all U.S. citizens by the Constitution
Civil Rights
Henry Ford sells the Model T for $825 in what year?
1908
What made people's lives quick and easier in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
Inventions
Why did Teddy Roosevelt name his plan the Square Deal?
a company that has little or no competition
Monopoly
The Panama canal is completed in what year?
1924
Who worked to improve life in the U.S. by passing laws to reform (change) government and society?
Progressives
What amendments were passed during the Progressive movement.
The 16th and 17th