Industrialization & Labor (SSUSH11)
This innovation allowed factories to operate 24 hours a day and changed urban infrastructure by replacing gas lamps.
What is the electric light bulb? (SSUSH11c)
The construction of the Transcontinental Railroad relied heavily on these two immigrant groups to lay tracks across western mountains and plains.
Who are Chinese and Irish immigrants? (SSUSH12a)
Investigative journalists like Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, and Jacob Riis were given this nickname by Theodore Roosevelt for exposing corporate corruption and social poverty.
Who are Muckrakers? (SSUSH13a)
Sensationalized reporting by yellow journalists following the sinking of the USS Maine helped push the U.S. into this 1898 war.
What is the Spanish-American War? (SSUSH14a)
This event laid the groundwork for the American Revolution by setting the stage for further conflict in the United States after 1763.
What is the French & Indian War?
John D. Rockefeller gained control of 90% of the oil refining industry by buying out competing refiners, a business strategy known as this.
What is horizontal integration? (SSUSH11b)
This 1874 invention allowed homesteaders to enclose private land in the West, effectively ending the open cattle range and traditional migrations.
What is barbed wire? (SSUSH12b)
This Supreme Court ruling in 1896 established the legal doctrine of "separate but equal," leading to the rapid expansion of Jim Crow laws across the South.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson? (SSUSH13c)
Following the Treaty of Paris in 1898, American troops fought a three-year war to suppress an independence movement led by Emilio Aguinaldo in this newly acquired territory.
What are the Philippines? (SSUSH14a)
What is James Madison?
Unlike Ellis Island, immigrants arriving at this California processing station faced harsher interrogations, long detentions, and strict enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion Act.
What is Angel Island? (SSUSH11d)
The U.S. government actively encouraged the slaughter of this animal on the Great Plains to force Plains Indians onto reservations.
What is the American Bison (or Buffalo)? (SSUSH12b)
Founded in 1909 by W.E.B. Du Bois and civil rights advocates, this organization was created to legally challenge Jim Crow laws and racial violence.
What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)? (SSUSH13c)
Theodore Roosevelt’s "Big Stick" foreign policy led directly to U.S. intervention in Colombia to secure rights for constructing this massive trade corridor.
What is the Panama Canal? (SSUSH14b)
This religious revival in the United States had four different social movements associated with it leading to the eventual outbreak of civil war. Name the revival and the four movements.
What is the Second Great Awakening, Temperance, Public Education, Abolitionism, Women's Suffrage?
This labor organization, led by Samuel Gompers, focused primarily on "bread and butter" issues like higher wages and shorter workdays for skilled workers.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)? (SSUSH11e)
Lakota leader Sitting Bull famously led Native resistance against the U.S. Army at this 1876 battle after gold was discovered in the Black Hills.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn? (SSUSH12c)
Jane Addams established Hull House in Chicago to assist low-income immigrant families, representing the growth of this reform organization model.
What is the Settlement House Movement? (SSUSH13b)
The Roosevelt Corollary added to this 1823 doctrine, asserting that the U.S. had the right to exercise "international police power" in Latin America.
What is the Monroe Doctrine? (SSUSH14b)
The battle of Saratoga was a pivotal battle in the American Revolution due to securing a head on head victory in which the continental army defeated the British by using the river and highground which led to this.
What is the French Alliance?
Andrew Carnegie lowered steel production costs using the Bessemer Process and controlled every step of production—from iron ore mines to shipping networks—a tactic known as this.
What is vertical integration? (SSUSH11a, b)
This 1887 federal law attempted to assimilate Plains Indians by breaking up communal tribal reservation lands into individual family farming allotments.
What is the Dawes Act? (SSUSH12c)
Progressive political reforms such as the initiative, referendum, and recall aimed to achieve this overall political goal for citizens.
What is expanding voter empowerment / direct democracy? (SSUSH13d)
Anti-imperialists like Mark Twain argued against territorial expansion in the Caribbean and Pacific primarily on this constitutional ground.
What is the argument that imperialism violates the principle of "consent of the governed"? (SSUSH14a)
The fulfillment of Manifest Destiny came after this individual annexed Texas and achieved Oregon through a treaty with the British.
James K. Polk