A "titan of industry" who owned all of the standard oil company and created company "trusts"
Who is John Rockefeller?
100
Henry Ford introduced this production technique to the automobile, greatly increasing output and decreasing costs.
What is the assembly line?
100
Journalists who worked to expose corruption and injustice in society
What are muckrakers?
100
This nineteenth century American policy told Europeans to keep out of the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
100
A literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that started a new black cultural identity in the U.S.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
200
A business that is owned by many investors
What is a corporation?
200
A negotiation between an employer and a labor union usually on wages, hours, and working conditions
What is collective bargaining?
200
A muckraking book by Upton Sinclair that exposed the meat packing industry and made people aware of problems.
What is the Jungle?
200
1919 Supreme Court case which established the "clear and present danger" precedent.
What is Schenck v. United States?
200
Italian anarchists convicted of armed robbery and murder in Boston. They were executed as a result.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
300
The nickname for the period of tremendous economic growth in the U.S. during industrialization.
What is the Gilded Age?
300
This theory was used to justify laissez faire policies, imperialism, and racism and to discourage social reform
What is Social Darwinism?
300
This industrial tragedy led to the creation of more laws to ensure worker safety.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
300
The de Lome letter, yellow journalism, and USS Maine were all causes which led to this conflict.
What is the Spanish American War?
300
President Wilson's plan for a peaceful world.
What are the Fourteen Points?
400
This business strategy involves buying out all of one's competitors to control a majority of the market
What is horizontal integration? (Trust/monopoly)
400
Labor organization that supported skilled workers and focused on collective bargaining
What is the American Federation of Labor?
400
An act preventing the sale of misbranded and poisonous food and medicine. It was introduced in 1906.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
400
The leader of the Filipino resistance movement.
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo?
400
By using this method of payment, on credit and in multiple payments over time, Americans were able to purchase new items they could never have afforded before.
What is an installment plan?
500
It's french... it means government should have no role in the economy.
What is laissez faire?
500
A bomb was thrown at this labor demonstration in 1886, turning public opinion against organized labor.
What is the Haymarket Affair?
500
A bill originated by people rather than lawmakers
What is the initiative?
500
DAILY DOUBLE (make wager)
Name THREE contributing events/trends which led to the U.S. joining WWI on the side of the Allies.
500
The U.S. Senate refused to ratify this, fearing it would lead to American involvement in world affairs.