Gilded Age
American business man and philanthropist. Founder of the Standard Oil Company.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Progressive reformer who founded the settlement house called Hull House
Who is Jane Addams
(1898) A war between the United States and Spain over the control of Cuba. It ends Spain's colonial empire and the emergence of the U.S. as a world power.
What is the Spanish American War?
Allowed national government to draft men to serve in war.
What is the Selective Service Act?
What Amendment granted women suffrage?
19th Amendment
Business man and philanthropist. Issued speeches about philanthropy and the moral obligation of wealthy people to help their communities. He earned his wealth with through steel.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Change in the U.S. Constitution that outlawed making, buying and selling alcoholic beverages
What is the 18th Amendment?
Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates and deliberately sensationalize the news.
What is yellow journalism?
International peace keeping organization.
What is the League of Nations?
Champion of temperance, abolition, the rights of labor, and equal pay for equal work
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
The belief that the government should not get involved with business. (No regulations)
What is laissez faire?
organizations of wage-earners formed for the purpose of helping members with gaining better wages and working conditions
What is a labor union?
Spanish Ambassador's letter that was illegally removed from the U.S. Mail and published by American newspapers. It criticized President McKinley in insulting terms--calling him "weak." Used by war hawks as a pretext for war in 1898.
What is the De Lome Letter?
New and strange method of fighting.
A system of fighting a war from ditches dug to slow down the enemy and protest the infantry soldiers from enemy fire.
What is Trench Warfare?
African-American journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. She also fought for woman suffrage.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
An economic and social philosophy- based on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.
What is social darwinism?
1.provided detailed, accurate journalistic accounts of the political and economic corruption and social hardships caused by the power of big business in a rapidly industrializing United States.
What is a muckraker?
Roosevelt's philosophy - In international affairs, ask first but bring along a big army to help convince them. Threaten to use force, act as international policemen; also known as the "Roosevelt Corollary."
What is the Big Stick Policy?
Ended WWI with provisions that were considered very harsh on germany and other defeated countries.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Who is Oscar Vela?
A law that prohibited all Chinese immigrants (with some exceptions) from entering the United States
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
gave people the right to vote for their senators instead of the state legislature; this is called direct election, where the people choose who is in office. The amendment also said that if a senate seat is not filled, the governor can pick a new senator.
What is the 17th Amendment?
40+ mile canal built to cut across the isthmus of Panama by United States Army engineers. The first construction began in the 1880s and it opened in 1915. It greatly shortened the sea voyage between the east and west coasts of North America.
What is the Panama Canal?
Proposed by Wilson before the end of WW1 as the basis for peace in Europe include a plan for the League of Nations.
What is Fourteen Points?