Vocab
The right to vote.
What is suffrage?
One of the most celebrated presidents in American history, known for his 'Square Deal' policy.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
Nickname given to late 1800s America due to the growing corruption underneath seemingly 'golden' times.
What is the Gilded Age?
The largest oil company in U.S. history, owned by John D. Rockefeller and eventually shut down by Teddy Roosevelt.
What is Standard Oil?
Prohibited immigrants from China from entering the country for 60 years.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
A general dislike of immigrants by native born people.
What is nativism?
President who, after intense pressure, signed the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Infamous court case that legalized segregation throughout the United States.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This cavalry regiment was led by Teddy Roosevelt and became iconic for their cowboy-style look.
Who are the Rough Riders?
Required all meat products sold in America to contain ingredients, expiration dates, and be thoroughly inspected before sale.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
A deal between two or more companies to unethically set prices to gain an unfair advantage.
What is a trust?
Writer of the Declaration of Sentiments and co-founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
Teddy Roosevelt's contributions in the military came with major victories in this war.
What is the Spanish-American War?
The first major immigration station in U.S. history - located in New York and primarily taking immigrants from Europe in the late 1800s.
What is Ellis Island?
Amendment that formally established birthright citizenship and applied it to African Americans for the first time.
What is the 14th Amendment?
The idea that through hard work and dedication, anyone from any background can succeed.
What is individualism?
First president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association - also a co-founder of the earlier NWSA.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
The first official women's rights convention in American History.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
Women's Rights group that was viewed as much more radical and publicly did not support the 15th Amendment.
Who was the National Woman Suffrage Association?
Passed by Teddy Roosevelt - allowed the government to establish areas of the country as federally protected.
What is the Antiquities Act?
The growth of a company through the process of buying out other companies in the same area.
What is horizontal integration?
This President set the first limitations on immigration with two major federal laws in 1882.
Who is Chester Arthur?
The largest women's rights protest in U.S. history, involved a lengthy, contested march in Washington D.C.
What is the 1913 Women's Rights Procession?
Potentially the largest company in U.S. history, the United States Steel Company, was owned by this person.
Who is J.P. Morgan?
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?