Westward Expansion
This is the name for the belief that it was God's will for the American settlers to expand west all the way to the Pacific Ocean
What is manifest destiny?
This is the reason that people moved from rural areas to the cities in the late 1800s
What are factory jobs, entertainment, infrastructure, etc.?
In the 1850s, Commodore Matthew Perry was sent to Japan to establish a trade agreement between them and the US.
Japan preferred to keep to themselves, which is also referred to as this term.
What is isolationism?
Progressives wanted to fix the problems created by which era?
What is the Gilded Age?
This system allowed people to make larger purchases because they could pay them off later
What is the credit system?
This invention put an end to the open range and cattle drives
What is barbed wire?
This man began his steel business in Pittsburgh and eventually became the second richest American ever
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Name two reasons why the US wanted to take possession of Hawaii
What is good for growing sugarcane, convenient resting/refueling point for ships, made Asia more accessible?
Ida B. Wells and Jacob Riis are examples of ____________________, investigative journalists who exposed political corruption and social conditions
What are muckrakers?
This amendment outlawed the manufacturing, transportation, and sale of alcohol in the US.
What is the 18th amendment?
This act gave Native Americans 160 acres of land for free so they could learn to farm
What is the Dawes Act?
These groups dominated cities and rigged elections through bribery in order to stay in power. The most famous of these was known as Tammany Hall, in New York City
What are political machines?
In his book, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, Alfred Mahan argued that if America wanted to be a global power, they needed to ___________________.
What is build up their navy?
Define the term "suffrage"
What is the right to vote?
This was FDR's plan to bring America out of the Great Depression
What is the New Deal?
This act gave white settlers 160 acres of land for $10 in 1862
What is the Homestead Act?
This was the name of the new third party that ran in the 1892 presidential election. They ran on a platform that included issues such as women's suffrage, 8 hour work days, and free coinage of silver
What is the Populist Party (People's Party)?
This term is used to describe overexaggerated stories that are meant to attract more readers
What is yellow journalism?
The disgusting conditions of the meat-packing industry were exposed by author Upton Sinclair in his book _____________________.
What is The Jungle?
The scandal where one of President Harding’s cabinet members was selling U.S. land for his profit.
People start to lose faith in gov.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
In order to keep the land they bought from the Homestead Act, what did the settlers have to do?
What is farm the land for 5 years?
This 1896 court case ruled that it was legal to segregate based off of race. They infamously used the phrase "separate but equal" to justify their ruling.
At the end of the Spanish-American war in 1898, the US establishes itself as a dominant world power. What three territories did the US gain at the conclusion of that war?
What is Puerto Rico, Philippines, Guam?
This major act was a direct result of people's disgust towards what was written about in The Jungle. It requires manufacturers to accurately label a list of ingredients on the outside of their products.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This New Deal program was created in order to put young men back to work and hopefully fix the high unemployment rate
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?