Empires
Immigration and Growth
Social Tension
Politics & Economic
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100

A country that is under the protection of a larger, stronger country.

What is a protectorate?

100
Poorly constructed apartment building, often built in long rows with poor sanitation and ventilation; usually located near factories;
What are tenements?
100

The process of rapid industrial growth.

What is industrialization? 

100
Use gold as the basis of the nation's currency.
What is the gold standard?
100

 The political boss of Tammany Hall. He has a funny name.

Who is Boss Tweed?
200

Led to the American occupation of the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico. 

What is the Spanish-American War?

200
Built upward. Cities could have large populations.
What are skyscrapers?
200
Segregation laws enacted in the South after Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow laws?
200

This is the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service by a single company or person.

What is a monopoly?

200

Many cultures blending together to create a new identity 

What is a Melting Pot?

300

This document told Europeans to "Stay Away" and that "America was in charge" of the Western Hemisphere.

What is the Monroe Doctrine?

300

the exodus of black Americans to the North from the South.

What is the Great Migration?

300

A women who fought for equal rights during the Progressive Era

Suffragette 

300

Created to combat the meat packing industry during the Progressive Era 

What is the FDA?

300
Term applied by Mark Twain in the late 1800s to America that describe the political corruption, greed, and poverty that lurked below the surface of society's prosperity.
What is the Gilded Age?
400

 An area in which another country has the power to affect developments economically and politically although it has no formal authority.

What is a sphere of influence?

400

Most immigrants during this time came from this part of the world at this time.

What is southern or eastern Europe?

400

a person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices.

What is a Robber Barron? 

400

an organization of workers that negotiates with employers over wages and working conditions.

What is a union?

400
established Hull House ( a settlement house in Chicago in 1889.
Who is Jane Addams?
500

A direct result of colonization and alliance bartering by European Empires. 

What is the First World War?

500
The growth of cities due to the influx of people?
What is Urbanization?
500

He showed the world how the poor lived in tenement buildings in the center of cities.

Who is Jacob Riis?

500
Well organized political parties that dominated city and state governments in the 1800s
What are Political machines?
500

The process of taking away the right to vote. Happened to black Americans in the South during the Gilded Age.

What is disenfranchisement?

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