People and People Groups
This union leader founded the AFL and promoted collective bargaining.
Samuel Gompers
Samuel Morse invented this device for long-distance coded messages.
Telegraph
The belief that the U.S. was destined to expand across the continent.
Manifest Destiny
Immigrant processing station in New York Harbor.
Ellis Island
Journalists who exposed corruption and social problems.
Muckrackers
These immigrant groups built most of the Transcontinental Railroad.
Chinese and Irish
Alexander Graham Bell’s invention improved instant voice communication.
Telephone
The sinking of this ship helped spark the Spanish-American War.
U.S.S. Maine
Immigrant processing station in San Francisco Bay.
Angel Island
Movement that won women the right to vote in 1920.
Women's Rights
She wrote The Jungle to expose unsafe food practices.
Upton Sinclair
Thomas Edison’s most famous invention lit homes and factories.
Light bulb
This 1898 treaty gave the U.S. Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
Treaty of Paris
Location where the Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869.
Promontory, Utah
This organization was founded in 1909 to fight segregation.
NAACP
He led the Rough Riders in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
Teddy Roosevelt
This farming innovation blocked buffalo migration and harmed Plains Indians.
Barbed wire
This policy gave the U.S. the right to intervene in Latin America to protect its interests.
Roosevelt Corollary
Canal completed in 1914 that boosted U.S. global power.
Panama Canal
Limited monopolies and restore competition.
Sherman Anti-Trust Laws
These Native American leaders resisted U.S. expansion at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse
This massive project, completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah, connected east and west.
Transcontinental Railroad
Filipino leader who fought U.S. control after the Spanish-American War.
Emilio Aguinaldo
1898 annexation of this Pacific island gave the U.S. a valuable base.
Hawaii
Name of the Book written by Upton Sinclair to expose the meat packing industry.
The Jungle