Progressives
Big Business
Imperialism
WWI
Immigration
100
What groups was the NAACP formed to help?
African Americans
100
What was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act passed to regulate?
Trusts or big business
100
What is the policy of large, powerful nations taking over weaker regions?
Imperialism
100
When World War I first began, how did the U.S. respond?
We remained neutral.
100
What symbol stands in New York City's Harbor to welcome immigrants?
Statue of Liberty
200
What were journalists and authors who wrote to expose problems in society and government?
muckrakers
200
What business organization is owned by investors who buy shares of stock?
Corporation
200
How did the U.S. gain Alaska?
By purchase
200
What type of warfare prevailed in WWI?
Trench warfare
200
Where were many immigrants from Europe processed during the 1890s?
Ellis Island
300
What did Southern states pass to try to keep African Americans from voting?
Literacy tests & poll taxes
300
What term means to manufacture products in large quantities quickly and cheaply?
Mass Production
300
What is the name of the scandalous reporting style that uses exaggeration to influence public opinion and gain readers?
Yellow Journalism
300
What did the Germans use to attack enemy ships, both military and civilian?
U-boats, or submarines
300
Why did many native-born Americans turn against immigrants in the late 1800s?
These "new" immigrants came from different religious and cultural backgrounds
400
What did both the Temperance Movement and the Suffrage Movement attempt to pass to achieve reform?
Amendments to the Constitution
400
What President wanted to break up bad trusts and control good trusts?
Theodore Roosevelt
400
What was the immediate cause of the U.S. entering the Spanish-American War against Spain?
Blowing up of the Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba
400
What was the immediate cause of the outbreak of WWI in Europe?
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
400
What laws passed in the 1920s restricted immigration from certain countries by setting limits to the number of immigrants we would accept?
Quota Laws
500
What book exposed problems in the meat packing industry?
Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"
500
What event led to the passing of safety laws to protect workers?
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
500
Who led the Filipino rebels against the U.S. when we gained the Philippines after the Spanish-American War
Emilio Aguinaldo
500
What was the name of the British passenger ship sunk by a German u-boat off the coast of Ireland in 1915?
Lusitania
500
What was the term for people who opposed immigration?
Nativists
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