The Gilded Age
What does the term "Gilded Age" mean?
What is a time (1870–1900) of economic growth that looked good on the outside, but had corruption and poverty underneath?
Who were muckrakers?
What are writers or photographers who exposed problems in society?
What was the 19th Amendment?
What is the amendment that gave women the right to vote?
What is imperialism?
What is when a country takes over and controls new lands?
What is militarism?
What is building strong armies and weapons?
What is a monopoly?
What is when one business controls an entire industry, limiting competition?
What was The Jungle and why was it important?
What is a book exposing problems in the meatpacking industry?
Who were Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
What are two leaders of the suffragist movement?
What is Yellow Journalism?
What is exaggerated news to stir up public emotion?
What are two reasons the U.S. joined WWI?
What are the sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman Telegram?
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
What is a businessman who made a fortune in oil and founded Standard Oil?
What was one result of The Jungle?
What is the Meat Inspection Act or Pure Food and Drug Act?
What was the NAWSA?
What is the National American Woman’s Suffrage Association that worked for women’s voting rights?
Why did the U.S. want to build the Panama Canal?
What is to make ocean travel between coasts faster?
What is trench warfare?
What is fighting from deep ditches, common in WWI?
Name two problems with tenement housing.
What are overcrowding and poor sanitation?
Name three reforms of the Progressive Era.
What are fire safety laws, child labor restrictions, and better wages?
Name three methods used to spread the message of suffrage.
What are speeches, pamphlets, and writing to politicians?
What was the Treaty of Paris (1898)?
What is the treaty that ended the Spanish-American War and gave the U.S. Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines?
What was the League of Nations and why didn’t the U.S. join?
What is a group to prevent future wars, and the U.S. didn’t join to avoid entangling alliances?
What is a political machine and how did it maintain power?
What is a group that kept control by giving jobs or favors in exchange for votes?
How did Jacob Riis expose tenement conditions?
What is through photos and writing in How the Other Half Lives?
What’s the difference between suffragists and suffragettes?
What is suffragists wanted voting rights; suffragettes used protest?
Name three reasons the U.S. practiced imperialism.
What are trade, military power, and spreading culture?
What did the Treaty of Versailles do to Germany?
What is it forced Germany to pay reparations, lose colonies, and reduce its military?