Dates
Statue of Liberty
Big businessman at the time wanted complete control over an area of business. What is that called?
Monopoly
Where was the originating area of contact for the Spanish American War?
Cuba
Which of the big businessman made his fortune primarily off of steel and was a Scottish immigrant?
1897 Who became president?
McKinley
What is it called when someone is killed by a mob / group, historically done often for racist reasons.
Lynching
What type of journalism pushed the Spanish American War forward?
Yellow Journalism
Many men who built America were called Robber Barons. What does this mean?
a person who became rich through ruthless or unscrupulous business practices
What decade / year was Yellowstone National Park established?
1872
Suffragette
Someone fighting for women's voting rights
How long did the War last?
113 days
Two men became philanthropists towards the ends of their lives. What is a philanthropist, and who were the men?
a person who seeks to promote the welfare of others, especially by the generous donation of money to good causes
Rockefeller, Carnegie
What year did the U.S.S Maine sink?
1898
A member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
Wobblies
Name 3 placed the US gained control of because of the Spanish American War.
Guam, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Wake Island
3 businessman got together to help get a president elected and a vice president selected. Who were the businessman, the president, and the VP?
Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan
Mckinley
Roosevelt
Explain this story:
A woman named Nevada Taylor was attacked and raped in Chattanooga, TN. She didn’t see her assailant, but someone accused a black man, Ed Johnson, of being the attacker. Johnson is caught and jailed by Sheriff Joseph Shipp. Johnson is found guilty by a highly biased jury and sentenced to execution by hanging. The case is appealed and goes all the way to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court “stays” the execution on appeal, and in response Sheriff Shipp leaves a lone guard on duty who allows a mob into the jail and lynches Johnson. The Supreme Court then opened a new case - U.S. vs. Shipp - and found Shipp guilty of not only allowing, but “aiding and abetting” the lynching to occur.
"Enemy Infernal Machine"
This was a made up term by a newspaper referring to the reason for the explosion of The U.S.S Maine.
Explain the U.S.S. Maine story, and what two stories were being told, and by who?
U.S.S. Maine was a US. Navy ship that exploded and killed many US sailors.
US story- Spanish Bomb was the cause
Spanish- No bomb, must have been the boat
Truth- It was the boat from the inside
Homestead Strike. Tell us the story.
Workers at the Homestead Steel Mill in Pennsylvania were being overworked and underpaid.
Carnegie left to Scotland to let his business partner, Frick, deal pretty harshly with the workers.
The workers got together to start a union, but they were threatened to be fired by Frick. The union went on strike and barricaded the plant.
Frick hired a force of 300 Pinkerton agents who fought the mill workers.
3 Pinkertons and 7 Mill workers were killed.