Industrialization
Urban America
Politics and Reform
Becoming a World Power
The Progressive Movement
100
The total value of all goods and services produced by a country is
What is the Gross National Product. GNP.
100
The most basic and cheapest accomodations on a steam ship.
What is steerage?
100
When government jobs go to supporters and friends of the winning party after an election is called
What is patronage?
100
The economic and political domination of a strong country over a weaker one is
What is Imperialism?
100
Crusading journalists who investigate social conditions and political corruption were called
What is Yellow Journalism?
200
Supporters of this French phrase believe that government should keep it's 'hands off' the economy.
What is laissez-faire.
200
This is a preference for native-born people and a desire to limit immigration.
What is Nativism?
200
This legislation declared any "combination in the form of trust..or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce between several states was called
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
200
When writers exaggerated and made up stories to gain readers was called
What is yellow journalism?
200
This movement advocated the moderation or elemination of alcohol.
What is temperance?
300
When prices go down and the value of money goes up is called
What is deflation?
300
Dark and crowded multi-family apartments are called
What are tenements?
300
A time when prices of goods go up and the value of money declines is called
What is inflation?
300
An area where a foreign nation controls economic development is called
What is the sphere of influence?
300
Laws banning the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol?
What is prohibition?
400
An organization owned by many people but treated by law as though it were a single person is a
What is a corporation?
400
An informal political group designed to gain and keep power is a
What is a political machine?
400
Laws enforced and perpetuating segregation were called
What are Jim Crow Laws?
400
The 16 new battleships of the United States navy that became known as
What is the Great White Fleet?
400
The idea that government should own and operate industry for the whole family.
What is Socialism?
500
These American brothers made the first manned, powered flight in history on the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
Who are the Wright Brothers?
500
Assimilating immigrants into American culture is known as
What is Americanization?
500
The Supreme Court Decision that endorsed the 'seperate but equal' ideology.
What is Plessey v. Ferguson?
500
This presidential order prevented European nations from sending troups to the Carribean or Central America.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
500
A direct tax on earnings of individuals and corporations.
What is income tax?
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