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New power source of the Second Industrial Revolution
Electricity/ oil and fossil fuels
Transcontinental Railroad's effect on the economy
How did immigration change in late 1800s/ early 1900s?
More immigration from eastern and southern Europe, more diversity of religious background (Catholic, Orthodox, Jewish)
Segregation is an example of this type of law
Jim Crow
Political machines provided what in exchange for votes?
Economic help, jobs
Roosevelt Corollary
An addition to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United States would act as a police power in the Western Hemisphere
Sedition Act of 1917 made what illegal?
Print or publish disloyal criticism of the US government
What German policy helped cause US entrance into WWI?
The NAACP was formed for this reason.
Jazz was a new form of American music that blended several different musical forms from this region.
The South
"Black Tuesday"
1929 stock market crash
This act, part of the "Indian New Deal", gave increased recognition and status to Indian tribes
Indian Reorganization Act
Why did the US not want Japan to expand into southeast Asia
Many valuable resources in that region
What most directly caused Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?
US oil embargo
To force Japanese surrender and avoid costly US invasion of Japan