Westward Expansion
What law gave settlers 160 acres of land if they farmed it for 5 years?
Homestead Act
What industry did Andrew Carnegie dominate?
Steel
Who exposed the meatpacking industry in *The Jungle*?
Upton Sinclair
The 1898 explosion of this U.S. battleship in Havana Harbor helped spark what war?
Spanish-American War
What event sparked WWI in 1914?
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Completed in 1869 at Promontory Point, Utah, this development connected the East and West coasts by rail.
Transcontinental Railroad
What process made steel faster and cheaper to produce?
Bessemer Process
What amendment gave women the right to vote?
19th Amendment
What territory did the U.S. annex in 1898 that later became a state?
Hawaii
What was the U.S. position at the start of WWI?
Neutrality
What was the name of the forced removal of Native Americans from the Southeast? (Hint Trail ** *****)
Trail of Tears
What term describes a business with complete control over a market?
Monopoly
What president was known as a 'trust buster'?
Theodore Roosevelt
What policy promoted U.S. trade with China?
Open Door Policy
What note from Germany to Mexico pushed the U.S. into war?
Zimmermann Telegram
Which U.S. belief justified taking land coast to coast?
Manifest Destiny
Who invented the light bulb?
Thomas Edison
This 1906 law was passed after Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle exposed unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry.
Meat Inspection Act
What U.S.-built structure shortened travel from Atlantic to Pacific?
Panama Canal
What treaty ended WWI and punished Germany?
Treaty of Versailles
This 1803 land deal doubled the size of the United States and set the stage for westward expansion
Louisiana Purchase
What law tried to stop monopolies in 1890?
Sherman Antitrust Act
This term, coined by Theodore Roosevelt, referred to journalists who exposed corruption and social injustices during the Progressive Era.
Muckraker
What Roosevelt policy emphasized military strength in Latin America?
Big Stick Diplomacy (Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine).
What international peace group did Wilson propose?
League of Nations