The Wild West
The 2nd Industrial Revolution
The Gilded Age
Imperialism
Progressivism
100
This linked the eastern railroad with the California railroad when it was completed in 1869.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
100
This was an ideal developed to prevent government involvement in business.
What is free enterprise?
100
He was the cartoonist who exposed Boss Tweed in the Tweed Ring Scandal.
Who is Thomas Nast?
100
Economic and political domination of a strong nation over other weak nations.
What is Imperialism?
100
This law made the production and sale of alcohol illegal.
What is prohibition?
200
Hundreds of innocent Sioux Indians were murdered by the United States Seventh Calvary during this battle.
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?
200
When the government does not interfere in business between private parties.
What is laissez-faire?
200
The act passed in 1887 that formed the first federal regulatory agency.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
200
The proposition that all countries should trade with China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
200
These girls were free and fun-loving, but the older generations frowned upon their actions
Who were the flappers?
300
This was a town established quickly and grew very rapidly, but was later abandoned.
What are boomtowns?
300
"Only the strong will survive".
What is Social Darwinism?
300
A nonviolent strike led by Eugene V. Debs which brought about a shut down of western railroads
What is the Pullman Strike?
300
The canal through Central America that provided commercial and military shipping.
What is the Panama Canal?
300
This amendment granted suffrage (voting rights) to all American citizens.
What is the 19th Amendment?
400
This act was accepted by Congress in 1887 and allowed the U.S. government to divide up Native American land into individual allotments for Indians.
What is the Dawes Act?
400
Controlled by Rockefeller, this was the first U.S. business to be monopolized.
What is standard oil?
400
A questionable man and the boss of the Steel Mill industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
400
The U.S. had to do this in order to gain territory, but other countries were also working toward the same goal.
What is annexation?
400
This organization was established to assist the development of colored people. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
500
The plan which involves foreign peoples giving up their culture in order to become a true American citizen.
What is assimilation?
500
A group in Chicago that helped new immigrants learn English.
What is the Hull House?
500
An American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation.
Who is J.P. Morgan?
500
Sensational, biased and often false journalism.
What is yellow journalism?
500
A national banking system, established in 1913, that controls the U.S. money supply and the availability of credit in the country.
What is the Federal Reserve System?
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