Thomas Edison and George Washington both worked wonders with this shocking new technology.
What is Electricity
100
This term was used to describe the era in which the nation appeared prosperous, but was actually ugly on the interior. Ooh. Shiny.
What is "The Gilded Age"
100
The ability to read and write.
What is literacy?
100
Devotion to one's country. More so than patriotism.
What is nationalism?
100
This term was coined to describe journalists who brought scandal in the government and bad business practices to light.
What is muckrakers?
200
This process was used by Andrew Carnegie to produce steel at a more efficient and cheaper rate.
What is the Bessemer Process
200
This president, a member of the Half-Breeds, was shot in 1881 by man who exclaimed afterwards, "I am a stalwart and Arthur is President now!"
Who is James Garfield?
200
This group, led by W.E.B. Du Bois, called for full civil rights for African Americans.
What is the Niagara Movement?
200
These profitable U.S. influenced nations in Central America soon became known by this yellow name.
What are banana republics?
200
This system gave cities a limited degree of self-rule.
What is home rule?
300
Andrew Carnegie used this type of consolidation in his company, controlling all steps of the manufacturing process.
What is vertical consolidation?
300
This type of agreement was made between homeowners who refused to sell or rent property to other people of different ethnicity.
What is a restrictive covenant?
300
These statues which encouraged segregation in the late 1800s and early 1900s often caused tensions in both the north and the south.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
300
This group of ships sailed around the globe to display American naval power to other nations.
What is the Great White Fleet?
300
This process allowed voters to directly vote on a law that was placed on a ballot.
What is a referendum?
400
This riot happened in Chicago in 1886 when workers demanded to have an eight hour work day. Dozens were killed in the process.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
400
This term describes the process by which native-born Americans were favored over immigrants.
What is nativism?
400
Court Case: "Separate but Equal"
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
400
This message to congress said that the U.S. did not want any more territory, but would intervene to prevent foreign intervention in acts that were not in the best interest of the United States.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
400
Woodrow Wilson partially owes his 1912 victory to these two gentlemen who split the Republican vote.
Who are William Taft and Theodore Roosevelt?
500
This term is used to describe the declining per-unit price as a company grows larger.
What is economies of scale?
500
This was the name of the political machine in New York City, famously run at one point by William Marcy "Boss" Tweed.
What is Tammany Hall.
500
This modern day organization was formed with the help of Mary White Ovington and the Niagara Movement in 1909. In 5 years, it had over 6,000 members.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People? (NAACP)
500
This country got the short end of Theodore's Roosevelt's "big stick" diplomacy when they lost control of the Canal Zone.
What is Columbia?
500
Susan B. Anthony was arrested in 1872 for partaking in this, a nonviolent refusal to obey a law in an effort to change it.