Westward Expansion
Industrialization
Progressivism
Imperialism
People, Places, & Things
100
Belief that the United States was ordained to expand from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean?
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
The time period in which the power driven machinery was applied to manufacturing. And when people stopped making stuff at home and started making stuff in factories.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
100
Amendment that allowed woman to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
100
The policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies. In pushing ones culture.
What is Imperialism?
100
An American inventor, scientist and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb, etc.
Who is Thomas Edison?
200
It provided 160 acres in the West to any citizen or intended citizen who was head of a household and would cultivate the land for five years; much of the land given to settlers had been reserved for Native Americans through treaties.
What is The Homestead Act?
200
When one company controls the entire industry.
What is a Monopoly?
200
Law passed in 1887 to regulate railroad shipping and rates.
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission?
200
Ship that exploded causing the outbreak of war between the United States and Spain.
What is U.S.S. Maine?
200
American industrialist. Who revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy. In 1870, he founded the Standard Oil Company and aggressively ran it until he officially retired in 1897.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
300
It was enacted on May 28, 1830, it proceeded to shift most of the nations of Indian tribes in the eastern United States to reservations in what was deemed Indian territory in present-day Oklahoma.
What is The Indian Removal Act?
300
People who loot an industry and don’t give back
What are Robber Barons?
300
The political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle with the privileged elite
What is Populism?
300
An ex-U.S. Army General who quickly moved up the ranks after the war. Became President of the United States, and was famous for his conservation efforts, and his Big Stick Policy.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
300
An expedition sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the northwestern territories of the United States; traveled from St. Louis to the mouth of the Columbia River from 1803 to 1806.
What is The Lewis and Clark Expedition?
400
It was a railroad line linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the U.S., 1st line completed in 1869
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
400
Migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there)
What is Immigration?
400
Era in the United States was a period of reform that flourished from the 1890's to the 1920's. Keeping corruption out of politics was a main goal, and with many trying to expose and undercut political machines and bosses
What is The Progressive Era?
400
War fought over Cuban independence.
What is The Spanish-American War?
400
United States inventor from Scotland who invented the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
500
This was the relocation and movement of Native Americans, including many members of the Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, and Choctaw nations among others in the United States, from their homelands to Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma) in the Western United States.
What is the Trail of Tears?
500
Assimilation into American culture.
What is Americanization?
500
This amendment lets the people from each state elect their state's senators. Prior to this, Senators were appointed by the state legislature, which could be manipulated.
What is 17th Amendment?
500
Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers.
What is Yellow Journalism?
500
United States civil rights leader and political activist who campaigned for equality for Black Americans (1868-1963)
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
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