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Steel & Oil
Steel & Oil
This term describes the economic model where a single company controls the entire process of a product, from raw materials to distribution.
Vertical Integration
This herd animal was an integral part of the lives of Plains Indians.
Buffalo / Bison
This 1896 Supreme Court decision upheld ‘separate but equal’ segregation laws, leading to the spread of Jim Crow.
Plessy v. Ferguson
This term refers to the U.S. policy of extending its influence and power through military force or diplomacy.
Imperialism
This treaty would end the French and Indian War.
Treaty of Paris 1763
This island served as the processing center for many Asian immigrants on the West Coast.
Angel Island
The US Seventh Cavalry would fight in this final battle between the US Army and the Plains Indians.
Battle of Wounded Knee
This writer stated that he aimed for America's heart but instead hit its stomach in reference to his novel: "The Jungle".
Upton Sinclair
This 1898 conflict marked the emergence of the U.S. as a world power and sparked debate over American imperialism.
Spanish-American War
The Treaty of Paris 1783 would end this founding conflict for the United States.
American Revolution
This invention by Samuel Morse revolutionized long-distance communication.
Telegraph
He was a prominent Lakota leader who resisted U.S. government policies and encouraged the performance of the Ghost Dance.
Sitting Bull
Founded in 1909, this organization worked to secure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights to eliminate race-based discrimination.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
This infrastructural project connected the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and provided a shortcut around South America.
Panama Canal
These two battles were the turning points of the American Civil War.
Battle of Vicksburg and Battle of Gettysburg
This famous labor progressive led the American Federation of Labor in fighting for better worker conditions.
Samuel Gompers
This colossal infrastructural project connected the eastern and western United States.
Transcontinental Railroad
This progressive activist would expose John D. Rockefeller's corrupt business practices to avenge their father's ruined business.
Ida Tarbell
This sensational style of writing, which exaggerates the news to lure and enrage readers was known as
Yellow Journalism
This American congressman would introduce the American System to aid American Businesses.
Henry Clay
This kind industrialist created the first American billion-dollar company and would donate much of his wealth to universities.
Andrew Carnegie
He was an American rancher who, alongside his wife, would invent barbed wire, a cheap alternative to wooden ranch fencing.
Joseph Glidden
This amendment allowed for the direct election of senators by the American public.
17th Amendment.
This late addition would add military force to the Monroe Doctrine in protecting the Western Hemisphere from European countries.
Roosevelt Corrolary
This trio of amendments, passed during the Reconstruction era, collectively abolished slavery, granted citizenship regardless of race, and protected the voting rights of all male citizens.
13th, 14th and 15th Amendments