Urban Life
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire took place in this US city
What is New York City?
The Open Door Policy asked for open trade with this country
What is China?
The US went to war with this country for 3 months in 1898
What is Spain?
The US purchased Alaska from this country in the 1860s
What is Russia?
What is Ellis Island?
The US is experiencing an economic _____ during the 1890s?
What is a depression?
This country won the Sino-Japanese War in 1895
What is Japan?
The process of turning iron into steel is mass quantities
What is the Bessemer Process?
Jane Addams started this settlement house in Chicago to provide food and housing to immigrants in need
What is Hull House?
The US built this waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean in Central America
What is the Panama Canal?
The explosion of this ship led the US to declare war on Spain in 1898
What is the USS Maine?
The results of this war made China look weak and sparked the carving up of China by other countries
What is the Sino-Japanese War?
The idea that people born in a certain country are superior to those who immigrated to that country
What is nativism?
The US went to war with this country/new territory shortly after the Spanish-American War
What are the Philippines?
The Spanish-American War was supposed to be about the independence of this country
What is Cuba?
A style of newspaper reporting where facts are exaggerated in order to create interesting headlines increase sales
What is Yellow Journalism?
This wealthy person made his money off of the oil business
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
The US gained control of these 3 territories as a result of the Spanish-American war
What are Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines?
This treaty ended the Spanish-American War
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This person was US president at the time of the Spanish-American War
Who is (William) McKinley?