Gilded Age
This invention by Thomas Edison allowed factories to operate at night.
What is the lightbulb?
This term refers to favoritism for native-born Americans over immigrants.
What is nativism?
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle led to this act ensuring food safety.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
Name the law that required merit-based government hiring.
What is the Pendleton Act?
This telegram encouraged Mexico to ally with Germany.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This act gave free land to settlers willing to work it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
This act aimed to assimilate Native Americans by granting individual land.
What is the Dawes Act?
The 18th Amendment banned the production of this.
What is alcohol?
This group of writers exposed corruption and societal issues.
Who are muckrakers?
The Roosevelt Corollary expanded which earlier doctrine?
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This railroad connected the east and west coasts of the U.S.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
What law was passed to regulate monopolies?
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This woman campaigned to end lynching in the South.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This constitutional amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This type of warfare involved soldiers fighting from ditches.
What is trench warfare?
This process made steel production faster and cheaper.
What is the Bessemer Steel Process?
The NAACP fights for the rights of which group of people?
Who are African Americans?
The 18th Amendment started Prohibition; what repealed it?
What is the 21st Amendment?
Name the naval strategist who wrote about the importance of sea power.
Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan?
He built a steel empire and believed in the "Gospel of Wealth."
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This term describes the era marked by a surface of wealth and underlying problems.
What is the Gilded Age?
This court decision legalized segregation under “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
What Progressive Era issue did Ida B. Wells expose in her writings?
What is racial injustice/lynching?
This treaty ended WWI and imposed harsh terms on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?