Westward Ex./Gilded Age
Vocabulary word for one person controlling one industry.
Monopoly
Journalists and writers who exposed the government are called...
Muckrakers
The name of the war that made the United States a world power.
Spanish American War
List one reason the United States joined WWI.
SUSSEX PLEDGE
LUSITANIA SINKING
UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE
TELEGRAM (ZIMMERMAN)
The reason the U.S. joined WWII.
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Vocabulary word for little to no government involvement.
laissez-faire
Author of the "Jungle"
Upton Sinclair
Describe the Open Door Policy in China
Equal trade with European countries and the United States in China.
Women in opposition of traditional women in the United States.
Flapper
What year did the stock market crash?
1929
Old immigrants that dislike or mistreat new immigrants.
Nativists
Name the act passed by the government to dissolve or stop monopolies.
Sherman Anti-trust Act
Who was President during the construction of the Panama Canal?
Theodore Roosevelt
The reason the U.S. did not sign the Treaty of Versailles
Punishment on Germany was too harsh.
Why did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor?
The U.S. sanctions on Japan's oil, rubber, etc.
What are the three reasons for westward expansion?
Homestead Act 1862
Gold Rush
Transcontinental Railroad
Jacob Riis is a muckraker who exposed how the __________ lived.
Immigrants
What two states were added to the United States as a result of imperialism?
Alaska and Hawaii
The reason the United States did not join the League of Nations
An isolated America did not want to be entangled in another war.
What event ended the Great Depression?
WWII
Name the four industrialists.
Carnegie
Rockefeller
Vanderbilt
Morgan
Jane Addams started what type of houses for immigrants?
Settlement Houses
What country was blamed for the U.S.S. Maine explosion?
Spain
Who was the president during WWI?
Woodrow Wilson
Name two presidents during the Great Depression.
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt