Industrial Revolution
What act provided land if a settler was willing to live on the land and improve it for 5 years?
Homestead Act
What do you call journalists that expose the problems of big business?
Muckraker
The practice of larger countries taking over smaller countries.
Imperialism
What was the name of the ship that held American passengers that was blown up by unrestricted submarine warfare?
USS Lusitania
Germany
What was the act that creates the Transcontinental Railroad?
Pacific Railway Act
Who is the Trust Buster?
Teddy Roosevelt
What is the theory that applies survival of the fittest to people based on their education and background?
Social Darwinism
Which country used unrestricted submarine warfare?
Germany
Who came to power in Germany following WWI?
Hitler
What do you call a industry dominated by one company?
A monopoly
What was Teddy Roosevelt's method of diplomacy?
We enter into the Spanish American War to protect who?
What was the name of the telegram Germany attempted to send to Mexico?
Zimmerman Telegram
What allowed Hitler to grow his influence so quickly?
Appeasement
What was the name of the political machine in NY? (Hint: Boss Tweed)
Tammany Hall
What was the extension of the Monroe Doctrine?
Roosevelt Corollary
What is the type journalism that exaggerates headlines?
Yellow journalism
Who created the 14 points of light plan for peace that ends the war?
Wilson
Lend Lease Act
How were strikes usually handled during the Industrial Revolution?
They didn't work.
Who wrote the Jungle?
Upton Sinclair
What act did we blame on the Spanish that further pressured us to enter into the Spanish American War?
Blowing up U.S.S. Maine
What does MANIA stand for?
Militarism, Alliances, Nationalism, Imperialism and Assassination (of Archduke Franz Ferdinand)
What act forced the US to join WWII?
Pearl Harbor