Gilded Age
Progressive Era
US Imperialism
Reforms
Miscellaneous
100

What were two major issues America faced during the Gilded Age?

Corruption, monopolies, child labor, crowded urban areas, poor working conditions

100

This law prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol

What is the 18th amendment

100

Why did the US want to gain access to the Panama Canal?

Shorten the trip by water from US coast to coast

100

Term for a journalist that exposed the problems of society during the Progressive Era

Muckraker

100
What year was the Spanish-American War?
What is 1898.
200

The time period that was named for looking good on the outside, but bad on the inside. There was lots of wealth and lots of poverty.

Gilded Age

200

This gave people the ability to vote for their senators instead of them being appointed by the state.

What is the 17th Amendment.

200
Conflict which led to the acquisition of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines, began with yellow journalism and the sinking of the USS Maine.
What is the Spanish-American War.
200

What are the 3 Cs of the Square Deal?

Conservation

Control of Corporations

Consumer Protection

200

Who picketed the White House hoping to gain the right for women to vote?

Alice Paul NWP

300
Big business formed these to harm the economy by unfairly limiting competition.
What is Monopolies and Trusts.
300

What state allowed women the right to vote first?

Double Points for the year!

Wyoming

1869

300
When you become an empire, gain territories, take over smaller, weaker countries in hopes of gaining natural resources.
What is Imperialism.
300

What was a Settlement House?

Living areas that improved education, healthcare and sanitation for the poor

300

Had a Big Stick Policy; President from 1901-1909. Member of the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War. 

Who is Theodore Roosevelt

400

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

What are tenements?

400

What were three political reforms that gave people more rights when voting?

What is 17th Amendment, Direct Primaries, Initiative, Referendum, and Recall.

400

Policy where all nations could come and trade in China

What is the Open Door Policy.

400

The amendment that gave women the right to vote.

What is the 19th?

400

Aside from suffrage, women fought for this during the 1900's.

What is temperance? or prohibition.

500
Law assimilated and Americanized Native Americans by abolishing their tribes and giving them 160 acres of land to make them a farmer.
What is the Dawes Act.
500
The two laws passed thanks to muckrakers uncovering abuses and President Theodore Roosevelt wanting to clean up American industries.
What is The Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act.
500

What were three causes of imperialism in the US?

Economic growth

Protecting American Security (military)

Social Darwinism

Spread Christianity

American Frontier closed

Growing public opinions

500

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony organized this meeting for women in 1848.

What is the Seneca Falls Convention?

500

This amendment to the Constitution led to the development of the Income Tax.

What is the 16th Amendment?

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