Emergence as a World Power
A policy for the U.S. to remain neutral and avoid global conflicts.
What is Isolationism?
A law making it illegal to mislabel meat products sold as food.
Meat is processed under strict regulated sanitary conditions.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
To be coated in a layer of gold, coined by an author and representing a time period.
What is the Gilded Age?
Forced Native American children to be assimilated from their culture to American culture.
What is Americanization?
The treaty that ended WWI, and restricted Germany's powers.
Made Germany pay for the damage that was caused by them, give up their territory, and lay their weapons down to submit defeat.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
A law that prohibits Europe from intervening with South America.
Increased the U.S. involvement in Latin America.
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
Ran for president for a party that split the Republican vote.
Led to Wilson's presidency
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
The first railroad that linked from the east to west.
It connected Sacramento to Omaha.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
A scandal in the 1920s involving oil companies and government officials secretly drill holes via bribery.
What was the Teapot Scandal?
Soldiers who return home from WWI experience PTSD from anything that represents their time in war.
What is Shell Shock?
A U.S. Naval captain who led to the expansion of the Modern Navy.
Wrote "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History."
Who is Alfred Thayer Maham?
A policy passed in response to a muckraker who wrote a book about the corruption of food companies.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
A policy of protecting the interests of established inhabitants opposed by immigrants.
What is Nativism?
A Russian Revolution beginning as a worker revolt.
American citizens feared this party would overthrow the U.S. government.
What was the Red Scare?
The Archduke of Austria was assassinated on the wrong street they turned on. Leading to the start of WWI
Who was Franz Ferdinand?
Responsible for this president's assassination after believing they are running for a corrupt government.
Would be sentenced to death in an electric chair.
Who was Leon Czolgosz?
An economic policy that protected businesses from the government from interfering and adding regulations.
What is Laissez-Faire?
This labor union allowed all workers varying in race, gender, and experience.
What is the Knights of Labor?
The embodiment ideals of people consist of short skirts, short hair, makeup, and the prohibition of constricting styles.
What are flappers?
The state declared war on Germany due to unrestricted submarines and the sinking of the Lusitania, which killed over one thousand people.
The state was also called into war because of a private conversation with Germany and Mexico, but was intercepted by British Intelligence.
What is the reason why the United States joined WWI?
Became president of this place to be annexed and expand the U.S. by overthrowing their queen.
This person would build a military base there. (Pearl Harbor).
Who is Sanford B. Dole?
The first federal law to regulate businesses.
Led to ICC that monitored railroad pricing.
Expanded other companies. (ex. Oil)
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
Inventor of Telephone, born in the 1840's
Who is Alexander Bell?
Italian immigrants charged with robbery and murder at a shoe factory.
Were sentenced to death in 1921.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
The most prepared American soldier.
Fought on the offensive, responsible for taking out 25 Germans, 32 machine gunners, and capturing 132 prisoners.
The soldier was only armed with a revolver and a rifle during that period.
Who is Alvin York?