The Gilded Age
The Main port of Entry for Immigrants
What is Ellis Island?
The Inventor of the light bulb
Who is Thomas Edison?
American policy until the 1890's set on staying out of Foreign Affairs
What is Isolationism?
Sensationalized or exaggerated accounts written in newspapers or media
What is Yellow Journalism?
FTC
What is the Federal Trade Commision?
A Society which allows the freedom to invest in order to make a profit
What is Capitalism?
Survival of the fittest as applied to economics
What is Social Darwinism?
Invading, conquering or manipulating with money in order to gain control over other countries
What is Imperialism?
The war fought to free Cuba from Spanish rule
What is the Spanish American War?
FRS
What is the Federal Reserve System?
The first Trust in America
What is Standard Oil? Or Who is Rockefeller?
Placing a higher value on things over God
What is Materialism?
Flexing military strength applied by Roosevelt
What is Big Stick Policy
Use as the reasoning to go to war with Spain
What is the explosion of the USS Maine?
19th Amendment
What is Women's Suffrage?
Built a shipping and Railroad Empire
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
Organizations designed to defend workers rights
What are Labor unions?
Using Money to get your way in Foreign Affairs associated with Taft
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
Treaty signed in 1903 in offering protection in exchange to protect this zone
What is the Panama Canal Zone?
18th Amendment
What is Prohibition?
Multiple companies being combined together
What is Consolidation?
A company owned by a single individual
What is a Sole Proprietorship?
Using good intentions and spreading the pure American way to nations less fortunate
What is Moral Diplomacy?
An uprising in China in response to the Open Door Policy which the US help put down
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
17th Amendment
What is the Direct Election of Senators?