Random!
A style of newspaper reporting that relies on sensationalized headlines, exaggerated facts, and dramatic illustrations rather than well-researched truth to boost sales.
What is Yellow Journalism
A violent confrontation on May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago
What is the Haymarket Riot
A left-leaning political philosophy and reform movement that uses active government intervention to improve the human condition, protect rights, and regulate the economy.
Prohibits the federal government and the states from denying a citizen the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude
What is the Fifteenth Amendment
A 19th-century United States Navy officer and military historian whose theories on naval dominance reshaped global foreign policy and military strategy.
Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan
Theodore Roosevelt's domestic reform program as U.S. President from 1901 to 1909. It focused on fair play, equal opportunity, and breaking down the power imbalances between wealthy corporations and the public.
What is The Square Deal
A famous 1876 armed conflict where a coalition of Native American tribes decisively defeated the U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry Regiment.
Were reform-minded American journalists, writers, and photographers during the Progressive Era (the 1890s to the 1920s) who exposed corruption, waste, and scandal in government and big business.
What is Muckrakers
A landmark U.S. law signed by President Abraham Lincoln that gave 160 acres of public land to citizens who agreed to live on and farm the property.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862
Electrified the 1896 Democratic National Convention with his famous speech attacking the gold standard, famously declaring, "You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold," which won him his first presidential nomination at age 36.
Who is William Jennings Bryan
What is the "Lost Cause"
The killing of an estimated 250 to 300 Lakota Sioux men, women, and children by the U.S. Army on December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre
A political approach that splits society into two groups: the pure, ordinary people and a corrupt, self-serving elite.
What is Populism
Was signed on December 10, 1898, and officially ended the Spanish-American War.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1898)
A trailblazing civil rights activist, sociologist, and intellectual who co-founded the NAACP and wrote the landmark book The Souls of Black Folk.
Who is W.E.B Dubois
A powerful group of 16 United States Navy battleships sent by President Theodore Roosevelt to circumnavigate the globe from December 16, 1907, to February 22, 1909
What is the Great White Fleet
A major five-month walkout by nearly 150,000 members of the United Mine Workers of America in eastern Pennsylvania who demanded higher wages, shorter workdays, and union recognition
What is the Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902
Formed in 1891 out of the Farmers' Alliance and labor groups like the Knights of Labor, the party represented rural farmers and working-class people who felt squeezed by banks, railroads, and industrial monopolies.
The People's Party
A law signed by President Abraham Lincoln on July 1, 1862, that provided federal government support to build the nation's first transcontinental railroad and telegraph line.
A prominent American educator, author, and leader who rose from enslavement to become the most influential spokesperson for Black Americans from 1895 until his death.
A violent, anti-foreign, and anti-Christian uprising in China led by a secret martial arts group called the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists, whom Westerners called "Boxers"
What is The Boxer Rebellion
A horrific and unprovoked surprise attack by U.S. volunteer forces on a peaceful village of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, resulting in the slaughter of an estimated 230 people
What is The Sand Creek Massacre
A progressive political philosophy calling for active federal intervention to promote social justice, economic welfare, and human rights over corporate property rights
What is New Nationalism
Two major agreements signed in 1851 and 1868 between the United States government and various Native American Plains tribes to address territorial rights and settler safety
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie
An influential American historian best known for formulating the "Frontier Thesis," which argued that the moving western frontier shaped American democracy, character, and identity.
Who is Frederick Jackson Turner