The Gilded Age
This person came up with the term "The Gilded Age."
Who is Mark Twain? (Samuel Clemens)
The war was supposed to be about the independence of this country
What is Cuba?
True or False? The US has always been expanding, even before the era of "New Imperialism"
True
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire happened in this year
What is 1911?
Labor Unions often wanted this many hours in a workday
What is the 8 hour workday?
Prices declining steadily
What is deflation?
The year the war took place
What is 1898?
The goal of the US was open trade with this country.
What is China?
European Immigrants entered the US on this island
What is Ellis Island?
The US built a canal in this Central American country
What is Panama?
This decade had the worst depression in American History
What are the 1890s?
This US was sunk in Havana Harbor
What is the USS Maine?
The US gave this country their independence after the Spanish-American War
What is Cuba?
Many urban Americans lived in this type of cramped apartments
What are tenement houses?
This note declared trade in China equal and open
What is the Open Door Policy?
The Farmers Alliance eventually became this political party
What is the Populist Party?
The US gained control of this country as a result of the Battle of Manilla Bay
What is the Philippines?
This war resulted in 4,000 American causalities and over 200,000 causalities on the other side
What is the Philippine-American War?
The belief that people born in America are better than immigrants
What is Nativism?
This document stated that European countries should leave western affairs to the US
What is Roosevelt Corollary (to the Monroe Doctrine)?
This strike led to strike leaders getting arrested for interfering with the US mail delivery
What is the Pullman Strike?
The US gained these 3 territories as a result of the Treaty of Paris
What are Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines?
The US annexed this territory in July 1898 to use as a permanent naval base
What is Hawaii/the Hawaiian Islands?
This is the process of turning iron into steel in mass amounts
What is the Bessemer Process?
This treaty ended the Spanish-American war
What is the Treaty of Paris?