Westward Expansion
First railroad that connected the Eastern coast with the Western coast of the United States.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
When one company or person controls an entire market.
What is a monopoly?
Roosevelt is credited in constructing this major project outside of the United States
What is the Panama Canal?
Form of journalism that exposed corruption and malpractice in government and business
What is muckraking?
Car designed by Henry Ford that became the first commercial car sold to American citizens
What is the Model T
The extreme limit of settled land beyond which lies wilderness.
What is the Frontier?
A share of a corporation, entitling the owner to a portion of the company’s profits.
What is a stock?
Roosevelts catchphrase for being polite with foreign powers yet preparing for military conflict if needed.
What is "Speak softly and carry a big stick"?
This literary piece pushed Roosevelt to enact the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 which led to the creation of the FDA
What is The Jungle
Method of production in which the manufacturing process of something is broken down into simple individual tasks
What is the Assembly Line?
Belief that it was both inevitable and justified that the United States expand westward to the Pacific coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
To provide financial help, usually used when a government helps a business.
What are subsidies?
Form of sensational journalism that would lead the United States into a war with spain.
What is Yellow Journalism?
Abstinence from alcohol
What is Temperance?
Something that is covered thinly in gold leaf or gold paint
What is Gilded?
Opposition to immigration usually as a result of fears that immigrants would not be able to assimilate into American culture.
What is Nativism?
In economics this term means the loss of potential gain from other alternatives when one alternative is chosen.
What is an opportunity cost?
Animal that Roosevelt used to love to hunt but helped protect from extinction due to his conservation efforts
What is the Buffalo?
Educational institutions were largely created in the United States in order to stop this in the workplace.
What is child labor?
Richest individual in American history who created the company Standard Oil and had a monopoly on the product
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This was a result of better paying jobs and more opportunities available in the United States.
What is an Immigration Wave?
Belief that the government should not interfere when it comes to business
What is Laissez-Faire?
Niece and Nephew of Theodore Roosevelt who would occupy the Whitehouse years later as husband and wife.
Who are Franklin and Elenore Roosevelt
Influential organization founded by W.E.B DuBois to help legally protect the rights and freedoms of African Americans.
What is the N.A.A.C.P (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)?
Allowed the final major developments in manufacturing methods of the Second Industrial Revolution, namely the assembly line and mass production.
What is Electrification?