Gilded Age
This process changed the U.S. economy from mostly agricultural to one based on factories and manufacturing.
industrialization
Journalists and writers who exposed problems and corruption in American society were known by this name.
muckrakers
This term describes a nation expanding its political or economic influence into other territories.
expansionism
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism can be remembered using this acronym for the major causes of World War I.
MAIN
This economic idea favors very little government interference in private business.
laissez-faire
Completed in 1869, this connected the eastern and western United States and made moving people and goods faster.
Transcontinental Railroad
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle helped build public support for this federal law protecting consumers from unsafe food and medicine.
Pure Food and Drug Act
This 1898 conflict is identified as a major turning point in the rise of the United States as a world power.
Spanish-American War
Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare and this message proposing a German-Mexican alliance helped push the United States toward war.
Zimmermann Telegram
These organizations gained political power by providing jobs or services in exchange for votes and political support.
political machines
This law encouraged western settlement by offering settlers land if they lived on and improved it.
Homestead Act
This amendment established the direct election of U.S. senators.
17th Amendment
These four territories are specifically connected to American expansionism: Guam, Hawaii, the Philippines, and this Caribbean island.
Puerto Rico
Before entering World War I, the United States officially followed this policy of not taking either side in the conflict.
neutrality
Native American boarding schools and other Americanization programs attempted to accomplish this process of absorbing groups into the dominant culture.
assimilation
This 1882 law restricted immigration from China.
Chinese Exclusion Act
This amendment expanded political participation by guaranteeing women the right to vote.
19th Amendment
This naval strategist is identified as one of the individuals who helped move the United States toward becoming a world power.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Woodrow Wilson proposed this plan for creating a lasting peace after World War I.
Fourteen Points
The Spanish-American War makes this year an important U.S. History turning point because the nation began taking a much larger role in world affairs.
1898
Passed in 1887, this law marked an important change because the federal government began regulating railroad business practices.
Interstate Commerce Act
These three Progressive reforms increased direct democracy by allowing citizens to propose laws, vote on laws, and remove elected officials.
initiative, referendum, and recall
This 1904 policy expanded the Monroe Doctrine by claiming the United States could intervene in Latin American nations to maintain stability.
Roosevelt Corollary
This agreement officially ended the war with Germany and became a major source of debate in the United States after World War I.
Treaty of Versailles
The Interstate Commerce Act and Pure Food and Drug Act both demonstrate this major change from the Gilded Age into the Progressive Era.
increased federal regulation of private business