Newspaper journalists who pointed out societal problems.
What is a muckraker?
100
Helped spread migration in the West.
What is the Homestead Act?
100
Train route that connected the U.S. in every way, changed the U.S., and completed in 1869.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
100
Increased immigration in the late 1800s and early 1900s led to this.
What is nativism?
100
Policy in which a strong country dominates others politically, economically, and socially.
What is Imperialism?
200
Book by Upton Sinclair that led to the 1906 Meat Inspection Act.
What is The Jungle?
200
Trail used in the 1800s to transport cattle from ranches in Texas to Kansas.
What is the Chisholm Trail?
200
System in which people are free to produce the goods and services they choose.
What is the Free Enterprise System?
200
Farmers moved to cities due to better pay, electricity, water, plumbing, and entertainment
What are reasons farmers moved to cities?
200
Applies evolution and survival of the fittest into society.
What is Social Darwinism?
300
Farm-based movement in the late 1800s that arose from Texas to the Dakotas and became a joint between farmers and labor groups.
What is Populism?
300
Native Americans determined where buffalo lived, where the next meal was, and how they used buffalo to survived.
What is the importance of buffalo?
300
Inventor of the telephone.
What is Alexander Graham Bell?
300
Housing complexes workers lived in.
What is a tenement?
300
Loyalty to a nation and its interests above all others.
What is nationalism?
400
1902 coal mining strike that called for 8-hour work days and higher wages. Once Teddy Roosevelt stepped in, miners received better conditions.
What are the United Mine Workers?
400
Town that goes through rapid growth due to mining.
What is a boomtown?
400
Founder of Standard Oil. Became the world's richest man and world's first billionaire in terms of US dollars.
What is John D. Rockefeller?
400
Subways, trolleys, and elevated railroads.
What is mass transit?
400
Journalism that distorts or exaggerates the news to create sensations.
What is Yellow Journalism?
500
An election open to all votes and parties, which decides candidates.
What is a direct primary?
500
Set up as the temporary terminal of the Transcontinental Railroad. Due to violence, this town only lasted 60 days.
What is Benton, Wyoming?
500
Known for the invention of the light bulb, recording on wax cylinders, and motion picture.
What is Thomas Edison?
500
Political group that provided essentials to city dwellers in exchange for votes.
What is a political machine?
500
An 1898 conflict between the U.S. and Spain, in which the U.S. supported Cuban independence. The U.S. gained territories in the Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico, and Cuba.