Work environment
When groups of workers band together for higher pay and better working conditions they form?
A labor union (they unionize)
What treaty ended the Spanish American War giving the US new territories like Guam, Puerto Rico and The Philippines?
Treaty of Paris 1898
Economic opportunities, religious freedom, political equality in America vs. poverty, poor jobs, government oppression abroad are examples of what immigration idea?
Push Pull factors
Journalists embellishing stories during the Gilded Age were known as?
Yellow Journalist
Raise import duties to protect U.S. manufacturers; increased consumer prices and angered farmers/consumers in Hawaii was done by which President
William McKinley (Mckinley Tariffs)
Workplace safety reforms, stricter fire/safety codes, improved labor laws, and stronger support for unions were changed because of this event
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
The group of cowboys and college students led by Teddy Roosevelt in Cuba were called?
Rough Riders
what is the term for people from different cultures coming together to form a common shared American culture?
Melting pot
In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed what industry?
meatpacking industry
The U.S. asserted the right to intervene in Latin American nations to preserve order and prevent European intervention (extension of the Monroe Doctrine) is called
Roosevelt Corollary
Total control of a product/industry that prevents competition is called?
Monopoly
“Remember the Maine!” was the start of the Spanish American War and the rallying cry for U.S. intervention for which country’s independence?
Cuba
This policy was created to stop immigration from china after the railroads had been completed
Chinese Exclusion act
An apartment house in cities with deplorable living conditions is called?
Tenement Housing
A strong country taking over a weaker one for power, money, resources, or cultural superiority is called?
Imperialism
Business strategy used by Andrew Carnegie involving buying out ore sources is called?
Horizontal Integration
This Cuban poet and journalist in exile in New York who organized guerrilla attacks on American-owned property in Cuba was named?
Jose Marti
The main federal processing center for millions of East Coast immigrants; symbol of entry and legal inspection was what island?
Ellis Island
Covered with a thin layer of gold — a prosperous surface hiding underlying problems is the definition of the term that Mark Twain used for the thus time period. what is the term?
Gilded Age
Teddy Roosevelt’s foreign policy of peaceful negotiations backed by the threat of force is called?
Big Stick Diplomacy
What theory did Robber Barons used to justify their actions in business.
Social Darwinism
Who was the Rough Rider that was the Sheriff of Prescott, Arizona when he was shot and killed in Cuba?
William "Buckey" O'Neill
A general hatred toward immigrants during the Progressive Era is called?
Nativism
This groups exposed industrialists called both “Captains of Industry” and “Robber Barons” from the corruption that they created?
Muckrackers
Conservation, Control of Corporations, Consumer Protection are the 3 C's of Teddy Roosevelt's presidential policy, What did he call the policy
The Square Deal