PEOPLE
PLACES
CONCEPTS
REACTIONS
REFORM
100

Who wrote The Jungle and what type of journalism was it called?

Upton Sinclair & muckraking

100

What buildings did immigrants live in, and who photographed their deplorable conditions?

Tenements & Jacob Riis

100

What is the headline, "DESTRUCTION OF THE WARSHIP MAINE WAS THE WORK OF AN ENEMY," an example of?

Yellow journalism

100

What event in 1892 made people intently question the violence of labor unions?

Homestead Riot

100

What did the 19th amendment do, and when was it ratified?

It gave women suffrage in 1920.

200

Who were two great "robber barons" of the steel and oil industry, respectively?

John D. Rockefeller & Andrew Carnegie

200

What was the process by which the United States acquired Hawaii as a territory?

Annexation

200

What were two related processes related to growth during the Gilded Age?

Industrialization and urbanization

200

What court case justified "separate but equal" segregation and when?

Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896
200

What was the goal and intended practice of the Eugenics Movement?

To improve society by sterilizing certain groups of people

300

Who were THREE black activists to react to racial segregation in the South, and what were their focuses or approaches (in brief)?

1. Ida B. Wells - anti-lynching, 2. Booker T. Washington - "cast down your bucket" or work hard to improve yourself, 3. W.E.B. Du Bois - a "talented 10th" should insist on political rights now

300

Which two countries did the United States go to war with during the Gilded Age?

Spain and the Philippines

300

Who was the other notable theorist of Social Darwinism, and what was his theory?

Herbert Spencer & "survival of the fittest"

300

What was the second national labor organization to form in reaction to worsening conditions, and what was membership like?

The American Federation of Labor & membership was exclusive, mostly for skilled workers

300

Who started the first settlement house in Chicago, what was it called, and what did it do?

Jane Addams, Hull House (1889), and it helped people (especially immigrants) with various social services

400

When was the Alaska purchase, who was responsible for the us buying it, and how was his name used in a pun?

1867, William Seward, & Seward's "Folly" or "Icebox"

400

What was the nickname for the People's Party, and which socioeconomic group supported its platform?

Populists & rural farmers

400

What was the name used to describe the fear of Asians starting in the late 19th century, and what Act of Congress  prohibited the entry of a particular ethnic group in 1882?

Yellow peril & Chinese Exclusion Act

400

What was interesting and/or significant about the Pullman Strike in 1894?

There was a sympathy strike by the Railway Union, which showed great concern for the working class
400

Which presidents could be considered presidents of the progressive era??

William McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson

500

Who were the four "lost presidents" after the Civil War?

Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester Arthur, & Benjamin Harrison

500

Which territories did the United States acquire after the Spanish-American War

Cuba, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, & Guam

500

What theory of distinct gender roles broke down to allow the birth of the "New Woman," and what did some notice was men's response?

Separate spheres & "primitive masculinity"

500

For some anti-imperialists, what was it that should be required for the United States, as a self-governing state, to "accept sovereignty" over another "people"?

Those people had to be "willing."

500

Who were the four candidates in the 1912 Election, and to which parties did they belong?

Taft (Rep), Teddy Roosevelt (Bull Moose Party), Woodrow Wilson (Dem), and Eugene Debs (Socialist)

M
e
n
u