Big Business, Immigration, Labor Union, Muckrakers, & Progressives
Used monopolies and trusts to build his oil empire
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
The Transcontinental Railroad allowed people in the ______________ access to resources and goods in markets in the ______________.
What is west and east?
Reforms like recall and referendum gave ________ more of a voice in government.
Who are the voters/people?
Nation that gained Independence after the Spanish-American war
What is Cuba?
Woodrow Wilson's plan to promote world peace after World War I
What is Wilson's Fourteen Points?
This female Progressive established the Hull House to provide social services to immigrants
Who is Jane Addams?
Two groups largely responsible for the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad
The concept of "separate but equal" is most associated with this court case
The phrase "speak softly and carry a big stick" is most associated with this foreign policy
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
What is Great Migration?
Jacob Riis' work "How the Other Half Lives" focused on exposing...
Technological innovations out west allowed farming to take place on a larger scale. Name three major technological innovations in the west (think farming).
What are the steel plow, barbed wire, and the mechanical reaper?
The United States gained these three territories after the Spanish-American War
What are Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico?
Three events that caused a shift in the United States from isolationism to support of WWI
What are Zimmerman telegram, Lusitania, and unrestricted submarine warfare?
Three major goals of labor unions (ex. American Federation of Labor)
What are better wages, better working hours, and better working conditions?
Final major conflict between the United States and the Plains Indians
What is Massacre of Wounded Knee?
President responsible for the Conservation Movement and the push to protect national lands, resources, etc.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Name two reasons for American Imperialism.
What are need for raw materials, desire to protect smaller nations, Manifest Destiny, etc.?
Similar to the John Adams' Sedition Act
Wanted to stop critics and "traitors"
Led to the imprisonment of Eugene Debs
What is the Espionage Act?
Major impacts of the lightbulb and the telegraph/telephone
What are ability to illuminate factories without oil lamps and ability to communicate quickly over long distances?
Policy that drove westward expansion and settlement including the Transcontinental Railroad
What is Manifest Destiny?
Developed from Black Codes and were implemented to limit the rights and freedoms of African Americans
What are Jim Crow laws?
Main benefit of the construction of the Panama Canal
What is a faster sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
One of the only portions of Wilson's Fourteen Points that actually made it into the Treaty of Versailles; designed to keep peace although the United States never actually joined
What is the League of Nations?