Gilded Age
This inventor of the practical light bulb ran a research lab in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
A: Thomas Edison
Most European immigrants arriving in New York were processed at this island station.
A: Ellis Island
Journalists who exposed corruption and unsafe conditions in business and government were called this.
A: Muckrakers
This amendment, ratified in 1920, gave women the right to vote.
A: 19th Amendment
This U.S. battleship exploded in Havana Harbor in 1898, helping start the war with Spain.
A: USS Maine
The U.S. bought this territory from Russia in 1867. Critics called it "Seward's Folly."
A: Alaska
This steel tycoon wrote "The Gospel of Wealth," saying the rich should use their money to help society.
A: Andrew Carnegie
These crowded, poorly lit city apartment buildings housed many immigrant families.
A: Tenements
Jane Addams founded this Chicago settlement house to help immigrants.
A: Hull House
This amendment gave Congress the power to collect an income tax.
A: 16th Amendment
Exaggerated, sensational news that Hearst and Pulitzer used to stir up support for war.
A: Yellow journalism
Completed in 1914, this waterway shortened the trip between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
A: Panama Canal
This belief that government should stay out of business and the economy was popular during the Gilded Age.
A: Laissez-faire
This 1882 law was the first U.S. law to ban immigration based on nationality.
A: Chinese Exclusion Act
Upton Sinclair's novel about the meatpacking industry.
A: The Jungle
This amendment let voters directly elect U.S. Senators.
A: 17th Amendment
Theodore Roosevelt led this volunteer cavalry unit at the Battle of San Juan Hill.
A: The Rough Riders
The U.S. annexed this Pacific island chain in 1898 after American planters overthrew Queen Liliuokalani.
A: Hawaii
Rockefeller bought up competing oil refineries to control one stage of production. This strategy is called this.
A: Horizontal integration
Samuel Gompers led this labor union, which organized skilled workers and fought for better wages and hours.
A: American Federation of Labor (AFL)
This photographer showed the terrible conditions of New York tenements in "How the Other Half Lives."
A: Jacob Riis
This amendment banned the making and selling of alcohol.
A: 18th Amendment (Prohibition)
The U.S. entered the war claiming to support independence for this island nation.
A: Cuba
Secretary of State John Hay's policy calling for all nations to have equal trading rights in China.
A: Open Door Policy
Carnegie owned the iron mines, railroads, and ships needed to make steel. This strategy is called this.
A: Vertical integration
Angry about low crop prices and high railroad rates, farmers formed this third party in 1892.
A: Populist Party (People's Party)
This African American journalist led a national campaign against lynching.
A: Ida B. Wells
These three state-level reforms let citizens propose laws, vote directly on laws, and remove officials from office.
A: Initiative, referendum, and recall
After the war, the U.S. gained these three territories from Spain.
A: Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines
This 1904 addition to the Monroe Doctrine said the U.S. could act as an "international police power" in Latin America.
A: Roosevelt Corollary
This 1890 law tried to break up monopolies but was weakly enforced and even used against labor unions.
A: Sherman Antitrust Act
A bomb killed police at this 1886 Chicago labor rally, turning much of the public against unions.
A: Haymarket Riot (Haymarket Affair)
Unlike Booker T. Washington, this leader demanded full civil rights immediately and helped found the NAACP in 1909.
A: W.E.B. Du Bois
Signed by Woodrow Wilson in 1913, this law created a national banking system to regulate the money supply.
A: Federal Reserve Act
This 1901 agreement let the U.S. intervene in Cuba and keep a naval base at Guantánamo Bay.
A: Platt Amendment
President Taft's policy of using American investments instead of military force to influence Latin America and Asia.
A: Dollar diplomacy