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Standard 1

100

Belief that the US was destined by God to expand its borders from coast to coast

Manifest Destiny

200

Broke up the reservations and divided the land among individual members of the tribe

Dawes Act of 1887

300

Transported both people and  cattle to the East and to areas in the West

Railroads

400

Prohibited monopolies or any business that prevented fair competition

Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890

500

Using both gold and silver as the currency standard

Bimetallic standard

Standard 2

100

A single company that achieves control of an entire market

Monopoly

200

People who built fortunes by swindling investors, bribing officials, and cheating on their debts

Robber Barons

300

Immigrants and rural people leaving the farms to move to big cities

Urban Migration

400

Phrase coined by Mark Twain to describe the tremendous increase in wealth caused by the industrial age

Gilded Age

500

Survival of the fittest - the rich are better and smarter than everyone else

Social Darwinism

Standard 3

100

Reformers who attempted to solve problems caused by industry, growth of cities, and laissez fair

Progressives

200

Journalist and photographers who exposed the abuses of wealth and power

Muckrakers

300

Three Progressive Presidents

T. Rossevelt (1901-1909)

William Taft (1909-1913)

Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921)

400

Written by Upton Sinclair, it exposed the dangerous working conditions and unsanitary procedures in the meat-packing industry

The Jungle (1906)

500

NAME BOTH:

1) addressed the filthy conditions in the industry

2) corrected the dangers of altered food and false labeling

1) Meat Inspection Act

2) Pure Food and Drug Act

Standard 4

100

Writing used to invoke strong emotions against Spain for their treatment of Cuba

Yellow journalism

200

The act of stronger nations taking control of weaker nations

Imperialism

300

MAIN causes of WWI

Militarism

Alliances

Imperialism

Nationalism

400

Three ideas that characterized American Imperialism

God

Gold

Glory

500

Name both reasons the U.S. entered WWI

1) German unrestricted submarine warfare

2) Zimmerman Note

Standard 5

100

Wrote The Great Gastby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

200

She portrayed racial struggles in the 1900s US South and published research on HooDoo

Zora Neale Hurston

300

Massive movement of African Americans from the Jim Crow South to the North and West

Great Migration

400

Characterization of 1920s print, film, and broadcast to communicate information to large groups of people

Mass Media

500

Nickname given to modern and rebellious women during the 1920s

Flapper