Immigration & Urbanization
This was the main entry point for immigrants arriving in New York.
Ellis Island
This business leader founded Standard Oil
John D. Rockefeller
This amendment allowed citizens to directly elect U.S. senators.
17th Amendment
This war in 1898 resulted in the U.S. gaining territories like Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
the Spanish-American War
This event in 1929 marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
Stock Market Crash
This process describes people moving from rural areas to cities.
Urbanization
This system allowed businesses to control all aspects of production from raw materials to sales.
vertical integration
These journalists exposed corruption and social problems in the early 1900s.
muckrakers
This amendment gave the U.S. the right to intervene in Cuban affairs.
Platt Amendment
This New Deal program provided jobs through public works projects.
WPA (Works Progress Administration)
These neighborhoods were often crowded areas where immigrants lived together.
Tenements or Ethnic Ghettoes
This act made it illegal to form monopolies that restrained trade.
Sherman Antitrust Act
This law improved food safety after public outrage from The Jungle.
Pure Food and Drug Act
This canal connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, improving trade routes.
The Panama Canal?
This policy aimed to stop the spread of communism.
containment
This political machine helped immigrants in cities like New York in exchange for votes.
Tammany Hall
This labor union was open to both skilled and unskilled workers.
Knights of Labor
This president was known as a “trust-buster.”
Theodore Roosevelt
This policy demanded equal trading rights in China.
Open Door Policy
This U.S. aid program helped rebuild Europe after WWII.
Marshall Plan
This 1882 law was the first major federal law restricting immigration.
Chinese Exclusion Act?
Passed in 1887, this landmark law was the first to regulate unfair pricing in the railroad industry.
Interstate Commerce Act
This Supreme Court case established the idea of “separate but equal.”
Plessy v. Ferguson
This addition to the Monroe Doctrine justified U.S. intervention in Latin America.
Roosevelt Corollary
This 1962 crisis brought the U.S. and Soviet Union closest to nuclear war.
Cuban Missile Crisis