Rise of Big Business
The richest man in US History who owned 90% of the oil industry
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
Group of workers trying to protect their rights
What is a labor union?
Growth of cities, in large part due to industrialization
What was urbanization?
War fought in Cuba and the Philippines
What was the Spanish-American War?
US policy at the start of World War I
What was neutrality?
This was the intense fear of the spread of communism.
What was the Red Scare?
This man created the Model T, the first mass-produced automobile, by using assembly lines.
Who was Henry Ford?
Total control over a product or industry
What is a monopoly?
Immigration center in New York through which over 12million European immigrants entered the US
What was Ellis Island?
These journalists wanted to uncover and expose the issues associated with urbanization.
Who were muckrakers?
This man-made waterway links the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, shortening the time it takes to sail from one coast to the other
What is the Panama Canal?
The sinking of this ship was one of the causes of US involvement in World War I.
What was the Lusitania?
The 18th Amendment led to this era, in which alcohol was banned
What was Prohibition?
Buying more products
What is consumerism?
This invention led to longer work hours in factories, since people could now work through the night
What is the lightbulb?
These immigrants passed through Angel Island, where they faced extreme discrimination and often were reject from entering the US
Who were Asian or Chinese immigrants?
Supreme Court case that legalized segregation
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
Teddy Roosevelt's group of soldiers who helped win the Spanish-American War
Who were the Rough Riders?
The movement of African Americans from the South to the North and West
What was the Great Migration?
This right was granted with the 19th Amendment
What was women's suffrage?
Flourishing of African-American culture, art, music, dance, literature, etc. centered in New York City
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Nickname given to this time period based on the fact that society seemed better on the outside than it was
What was the Gilded Age?
Three things that workers wanted
What are better wages, better hours, and safer working conditions?
Community centers that particularly provided support to immigrant women and children
What were settlement houses?
"Speak softly and carry a ___ ______"
What is a big stick?
Message from Germany to Mexico, asking Mexico to attack the US
What was the Zimmermann Telegram?
What was the League of Nations?
This style of music emerged from the Harlem Renaissance
What is jazz?
Company that has a monopoly over a certain industry or product; no longer allowed due to the amount of power one company would get
What was a trust?
Tactics used by labor unions
What are strikes, protests, and collective bargaining?
Overcrowded urban apartments that barely met or failed to meet the minimum standards of safety, sanitation, and comfort
What were tenements?
This addition to the Monroe Doctrine stated that the US was willing to use force to protect Latin American countries from European powers.
What was the Roosevelt Corollary?
The abbreviation for these 5 causes of World War I is MANIA
Militarism, alliances, nationalism, imperialism, assassination
An unintended side effect of prohibition that emerged as a result of people illegally producing alcohol
What was the rise in organized crime?
Women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, and defied traditional gender roles.
Who were flappers?