Acts
Congress adopted this which made gold the sole standard of monetary value.
What is the Gold Standard Act?
Policy of "hands off"
What is laissez faire?
This movement began as a training session for Sunday School teachers.
What is the Chautauqua movement?
Referred to as the Pearl of the Antilles.
What is Cuba?
America's best known urban evangelist.
Who is D.L. Moody?
This legislation provided the performance of duties of the President in case of resignation, removal, or death.
What is the Presidential Succession Act?
Act passed in 1890 that declared trusts illegal.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This was awarded in journalism, literature, drama, and music.
What is the Pulitzer Prize?
Sensational news stories to attract readers and increase circulation.
What is yellow journalism?
Traveled with Moody as a song leader.
Who is Ira Sankey?
This preventative legislation that created a fair way to count the ballots.
What is the Electoral Count Act?
Laws that were adopted by western states in an attempt to force railroads to charge equal freight rates to all shippers.
What are Granger laws?
Most dynamic leader of the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
Who is Frances Willard?
Concluded the end of the war by recognizing Cuba's independence from Spain and ceded Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines to the US.
What is the Treaty of Paris.
This organization began as a way to influence young men (and eventually young women) through Bible study and prayer.
What is the YMCA/YWCA?
This act gradually allowed the Philippine Island to become self-governing.
What is the Jones Act?
Major businesses with an exclusive control on the supply of a product with virtually no competition.
What are monopolies?
This philanthropist is most notable for donating millions of dollars to the establishment of public libraries.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
How is the United States perceived after victory against the Spanish navy?
What is a major world power?
The purpose of this organization was to provide people with food, shelter, clothing, and the gospel.
What is the Salvation Army?
This legislation required that railroads charge fair and public rates for customers and helped small farmers using the railway to transport goods.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
The first regulatory agency established to investigate and regulate services involved in transporting goods between states.
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission?
Effort to limit or outlaw the consumption and production of alcoholic beverages.
What is the Temperance Movement?
What two events escalated the US's involvement in the war?
What is the de Lome letter and the sinking of the Maine?
This Chinese man spent most of his childhood in India, was influenced by a Christian officer in the Coast Guard, received an education, and returned to China as a missionary.
Who is Charles Jones Soong?