Westward Expansion
Completed in 1869, this development helped to transport more Americans west and to increase shipping of goods and resources from coast to coast.
What was the Transcontinental Railroad?
The type of business drew millions of immigrants to work in America's growing cities during the Gilded Age.
What are factories?
Susan B. Anthony was most famous as this type of reformer who seeks the vote for women.
Who are suffragists?
Ratified in 1920, this amendment allowed women to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
President McKinley sent this battleship to support Americans living in Havana, Cuba during the Cuban revolt. When it exploded and sank in 1898, Americans blamed Spain.
What is the USS Maine?
These innovations helped western farmers increase production and efficiency.
What are new farming machinery and modern farming methods?
The breaking-up of a big business monopoly by the federal government.
What is trustbusting?
An investigative reporter who uncovered corruption in government and business.
What is a muckraker?
Ratified in 1919, this amendment prohibited the production, distribution, and sale of alcohol in the U.S.
What is the 18th Amendment?
In 1898, Sanford Dole led a revolt of planters to overthrow the monarchy of this island country. The U.S. annexed it in 1898.
What is Hawaii?
This law encouraged westward expansion and increased agriculture (farming) on the Great Plains.
What was the Homestead Act?
This form of big business limits or eliminates competition.
What is a business monopoly?
This reform movement was led by women who wanted to improve society by making alcohol illegal.
What is the Temperance Movement?
Ratified in 1913, this amendment required direct election of senators by the voters of their state.
What is the 17th Amendment?
News stories that exaggerated events to sell more newspapers and influence public opinion; Used by newspaper publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst to increase American support for war with Spain.
What is yellow journalism?
This state's population grew by hundreds of thousands after gold was discovered there in 1849.
What is California?
The use of machinery to mass produce building materials and consumer products.
What is industrialization?
He was a "trustbusting" progressive president who supported limits on monopolies, the conservation of nature, and the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food & Drug Act.
Who was Teddy Roosevelt?
Ratified in 1913, this amendment allowed the federal government to collect individual and corporate income taxes.
What is the 16th Amendment?
Signed in 1898, this agreement ended the Spanish-American War. It gave the U.S. control of Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.
What is the 1898 Treaty of Paris?
This industry grew in cities like Chicago to process livestock into food products.
What is the meat packing industry?
This manufacturing innovation used a series of workers and machines to build products more quickly.
What is the assembly line?
She was a women's rights activist who also supported immigrants in Chicago with education and other services at her settlement house called Hull House.
Who was Jane Addams?
Ratified in 1865, this amendment prohibited slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This was Teddy Roosevelt's policy to use the military to intervene in Latin America to protect U.S. economic interests.
What was the Big Stick Policy?