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The leader of the Oil Industry
Who is John Rockefeller?
These steel monuments added a new dimension to the formation of the American city during the Gilded Age.
What are skyscrapers?
Journalists produced sensational stories during the Spanish-American War using this type of journalism.
What is yellow journalism?
This product redefined the American landscape in two ways, horizontally and vertically.
What is steel?
A term that applies to individuals who wrote about the corrupt business practices (monopolization), conditions of certain industries, and exposing the lives of immigrants living in major US cities.
Who are "muckrakers"?
Upton Sinclair's novel that exposed the conditions of meat-packing industries.
What is The Jungle?
This muckraker advocated against the living situation of immigrants in New York City by using flash photography to expose the filth of tenement living.
Who is Jacob Riis?
The term given to men during the Gilded Age who used unethical methods to get rich.
Who are robber barons?
This event sparked the quest for American imperialism as it saw the death of one of the world's oldest empires, and saw the birth of a new.
What is the Spanish-American War?
Rockefeller used this type of business model to monopolize independent oil companies into one large one.
This muckraker exposed life for African Americans in during the Jim Crow era by writing about the frequency of lynchings in the South.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
US forces were sent here to squash a rebellion by locals who were attempting to overthrow the Spanish colonial rule.
What is Cuba?
This muckraker exposed the corrupt business practices of John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
This act of 1882 served as the first act of Congress that targeted a specific ethnic group.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This island nation was annexed by the United States in 1893 following the overthrown of its queen by a group of sugar plantation owners.
What is Hawaii?
The introduction of this invention during the Gilded Age allowed for cold meats and other items that needed to be kept cold to be transported across the United States.
What is the Refrigerated Railcar?
This amendment granted women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This political reform from the Progressive Era allowed individuals from the electorate to remove someone elected to office.
What is Recall?
The President of the United States at the beginning of the Twentieth Century.
Who is Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt?
This island served as the check-in location for Asian immigrants during the 1880s.
What is Angel Island?
Issued by Roosevelt, this piece of foreign policy made an addition to the Monroe Doctrine from 1820, stating that the United States would intervene in any affairs of countries in the Western Hemisphere of economic or civil concern.
What is The Roosevelt Corollary?
Formed in 1869, this joined the nation from east to west, allowing the distribution of goods to expand.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
The years of the Progressive Era.
What are 1890-1920?
This invention introduced during the Gilded Age allowed the transportation of goods to go up and down.
What is the Otis Elevator?
This African-American man caused the creation of the phrase "separate but equal" after he refused to move from an all-white railcar.
Who is Homer Plessy?
This concept, introduced by Herbert Spencer, said that there were superior races and inferior races, and brought for the idea that only those who could survive would be those from the superior race.
What is Social Darwinism?
This island-nation, once owned by Spain, came under the possession of the United States during the Spanish-American War; at the end of the war, the US bought the island-nation for $20 mil.
What are The Philippines?
Responding to unsafe and unethical labor conditions, this strike of 1894 was one of the first to have the US government use its power to suppress an event.
What is the Pullman Strike?
This type of political reform grants individual regular voting citizens to decide on a new proposal and share their opinions on it rather than the government only voting on it.
What is a referendum?
This type of political reform introduced during the Progressive Era focused on allowing members of the electorate to form a petition in order to allow an item to be voted on; it can be both direct or indirect.
What is an Initiative?