The Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads reached Promontory Summit on...
What is May 10th 1869
100
*growth
*materialism
*big business and corruption
*laissez-faire
*waste
*disregard for minorities
What are the characteristics of the Gilded Age
100
Leading proponent of Imperialism by sea power
Who it Alfred Thayer Mahan
100
A series of political and cultural responses to the new urban-industrial order and its by-products
What is Progressivism
200
* 10%
* Republication of Constitution
* Permanent freedom for African-Americans
*Education for Freedmen
What is Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction
200
* it brought people to the west
* it helped to set up political organizations and formed governments
* it stimulated transportation and extraction industries
*it brought foreign investments
What are the benefits of the Mineral Rushes
200
A form of corporate organization that aggressively forces out its competitors, by buying them out or pricing products below cost to strangle their business.
What is a Trust
200
An independent island nation that was proclaimed a US territory "to protect American lives and property"
What is Hawaii
200
The Progressive Era signaled and end to laissez faire in favor of....
What is Regulations
300
Laws passed by southern state that limited the rights of the freedmen ie. could not vote, hold office, own fire arms etc....
What are Black Codes
300
"free soil, free labor, free men"...a measure that provided free land on the Great Plains to those who were willing to live there and develop it.
What is The Homestead Act of 1862
300
Magnates & Inventors in the Gilded Age include all except:
Westinghouse
Edison
Roosevelt
Vanderbilt
Carnegie
Who is Roosevelt
300
After the New York Journal and the New York World sensationalized the Cuban crises, Pres. McKinley sent this ship to Havana Harbor to "protect US property"
What are the characteristics of the Progressive Era
400
An amendment to the Constitution that Abolished Slavery
What is the 13th Amendment
400
The Iron Age met the Stone Age when the railroad met the...
What is Buffalo
400
Unsafe working conditions, low pay and long hours inspired workers to form.....
What are Labor Unions
400
Leading the "Rough Riders" up San Juan Hill, Theodore Roosevelt helped end this war that liberated the Philippines from Spanish control
What is The Spanish-American War
400
Prohibits certain business activities that federal government regulators deem to be anticompetitive. It also requires the federal government to investigate and pursue trusts, companies and organizations suspected of being in violation.
What is The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
500
The end of Reconstruction signals the beginning of .....
What is Segregation
500
Requires smeltering to get the silver out
What is Argentiferous Ore
500
What percentage of children worked 70 hours per week
What is 34%
500
The Peace of Paris of 1899 ensured that Cuba would remain independent, that the US would set up its government and that 20 square miles at Santiago would be given to the US for.....
What is Guantanamo Naval Base
500
Writers and cartoonists that would discover and expose urban corruption and wrongdoing