Reconstruction
American Innovation
Gilded Age
Imperialism
American Miscellany
100
System of racial segregation put in place until 1965
What are Jim Crow Laws
100
This American inventor, who help 100s of patents, had a lab in Menlo Park, NJ where he invented the light bulb
Who is Thomas Edison
100
The poster child for "robber barons," this man built the oil industry and became synonymous with excessive wealth
Who is John D. Rockefeller
100
This conflict over Cuban independence opened the doors to US empire building abroad
What is the Spanish-American War
100
The rapid growth of cities and general movement to them
What is urbanization
200
This amendment abolished slavery
What is 13th amendment
200
"Mr. Watson, come quick, I want to see you" were the first words uttered on the telephone by this person, who invented it.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell
200
Andrew Carnegie helped build this country by establishing this industry in Western Pennslylvania
What is the steel industry
200
Name THREE places the US expanded into during the period 1890-1920
What are Cuba, Philippines, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, Caribbean, Latin America
200
These journalists, like Upton Sinclair, exposed corruption to the general public and helped create improved public health policy
What are muckrakers
300
This organization built schools and hospitals for newly emancipated slaves
What is Freedman's Bureau
300
Inventor of Model T and the assembly line
Who is Henry Ford
300
These overcrowded, decrepit apartment buildings were filled with the poor, working class and were prominent in major US cities
What are tenements
300
This US President promoted territorial expansion with his Big Stick Policy
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
300
When one nation goes into another nation and takes it over politically, socially, and/or economically
What is imperialism
400
This amendment granted US citizenship to all born in US or naturalized
What is 14th amendment
400
This botanist and prominent African-American scientist, born into slavery, promoted alternative crops to cotton, like peanuts and sweet potatoes
Who is G.W. Carver
400
When one company controls all companies in a given industry
What is a monopoly
400
This was the belief that only strongest, fittest countries will survive global competition
What is Social Darwinism
400
This means "let do" and is the belief that government should stay out of business and not regulate it
What is laissez-faire
500
This resulted in the removal of troop from the South
What is Compromise of 1877
500
Inventor of AC/DC (not the band)
Who is Nicolas Tesla
500
The act of donating/giving away all your wealth to those less fortunate
What is philanthropy
500
Driven by William Howard Taft, this policy promoted the use of financial persuasion and aid rather than force and coercion
What is Dollar Diplomacy
500
The science of manipulating genes and population to make "fitter" humans
What is Eugenics
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