These "factors" explain why immigrants are motivated to leave their home countries.
What are "Push and Pull" factors
100
This fossil fuel was a critical ingredient that fueled steam engines during the industrial revolution
What is coal?
100
A war with this country happened in 1898, resulting in the United States acquiring possession of the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico,
What is Spain?
100
Covered with a thin layer of gold
What is Gilded?
100
This was the name of Rockefeller's trust
What is Standard Oil Company?
200
This country gave the Statue of Liberty to the United States
What is France?
200
Using the innovative "Bessemer Process", Andrew Carnegie mass produced this key ingredient which helped to ignite the rapid urbanization that occurred in the late 1800's.
What is steel?
200
Teddy Roosevelt is best known for this type of diplomacy, he said "Speak softly, but carry" one of these.
What is a Big Stick?
200
To add or attach a new territory to an existing country
What is annex?
200
This was completed when the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific met at Promontory, Utah, 1869
What is the First Transcontinental Railroad?
300
A potato famine in this country caused millions to immigrate to the United States in the late 1840's
What is Ireland?
300
Captains of Industry or Robber Barons? These two are perhaps the best known business magnates of the gilded age, known for their shrewd, ruthless tactics as well as generous philanthropy
Who are John Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie?
300
This U.S. naval vessel blew up in Havana Harbor in April 1898 and became a rallying call for the United States' declaration of war. The true perpetrator of this crime has never been entirely proven.
What is The Maine?
300
"Hands off" government approach to business
What is Laissez Faire?
300
He was the President of the United States that supported the Annexation of Hawaii
Who was William McKinley?
400
This controversial "act" by congress, if passed, would give undocumented immigrants who came to the United States before the age of 16, and who are attending or graduating from college, a path to citizenship.
The Dream Act
400
This label is used to describe the group of writers who worked to expose the corruption and problems that simmered beneath America's surface during the gilded age.
Who are the Muckrakers?
400
After the war in 1898, President McKinley declared that the people people of this nation were "unfit for self-government"
What is the Philippines?
400
These two terms are complete opposites. One refers to interfering in the affairs of another nation, the other refers to avoiding conflicts and alliances with other nations.
What are interventionist and isolationist?
400
This term refers to a set limit to the amount of immigrants that can enter into a given country
What is a quota?
500
"Exclusion Acts" passed in the late 1800's strictly limited immigration to the United States from this country
What is China?
500
The reformers of this "era" are known for their collective efforts to address and fix the problems caused by immigration and urbanization
What is the Progressive Era?
500
The word is used to describe the policy of establishing economic, political, and military dominance over weaker nations on humanitarian and moral grounds
What is imperialism?
500
The art or practice of conducting international relations
What is Diplomacy?
500
Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine both used this to expose the unsanitary living conditions and exploitation of children that occured during the Gilded Age