Big Business & Inventions
Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb required this central municipal system to power city streetlights and run factory shifts 24/7.
What is the electric power grid?
Railroad companies and hunters systematically slaughtered this animal to clear tracks, feed rail crews, and intentionally force Plains tribes onto reservations.
What is the buffalo (bison)?
Investigative journalists who exposed hidden social evils, slum conditions, and corporate corruption to create public outrage that forced politicians to pass laws.
Who are Muckrakers?
Jane Addams established this Chicago institution to provide healthcare, childcare, English classes, and job training to working-class immigrant families.
What is Hull House (or a Settlement House)?
Sensationalized, exaggerated newspaper headlines blaming Spain for atrocities in Cuba, stirring public outrage that pushed the U.S. into war in 1898.
What is Yellow Journalism?
The name of Mr. Connolly's dog.
What is Chuck?
This communication device invented by Samuel Morse allowed instant coded messages along rail lines decades before the telephone was invented.
What is the telegraph?
Revered Lakota Sioux leader who resisted federal land seizures, defeated Custer at Little Bighorn (1876), and defended tribal sovereignty until his death in 1890.
Who is Chief Sitting Bull?
Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel The Jungle exposed unsanitary meatpacking conditions, pressuring President Roosevelt and Congress to pass these two consumer safety laws.
What are the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act?
Progressive women’s leadership in social reform (settlement houses, temperance, suffrage) grew directly out of female activism in this earlier 19th-century historical era.
What is the Antebellum Period (Seneca Falls / Abolition movement)?
The sudden explosion of this U.S. battleship in Havana Harbor served as the immediate catalyst for declaring war against Spain in 1898.
What is the USS Maine?
The age of Ms. Medley's eldest child.
What is 26?
Group of native-born Americans who opposed non-Protestant and Asian immigrants due to language, religion, and job competition, driving anti-immigrant laws.
Who are Nativists?
Federal government policy that forced Plains tribes onto restricted, arid government land parcels to break tribal culture and open land for railroads and settlers.
What are Indian reservations?
His photojournalism in How the Other Half Lives exposed dark, windowless slum tenements, forcing cities to pass indoor plumbing and sanitation laws.
Who is Jacob Riis?
Crusading journalist who bridged women’s reform and civil rights by publishing Southern Horrors to expose the economic and racial terror of lynching.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
50-mile human-made waterway across Central America that cut naval and commercial shipping routes between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans by over 8,000 miles.
What is the Panama Canal?
Mr. Connolly's height.
What is six feet even?
Andrew Carnegie gained a steel monopoly by controlling every stage of production from raw iron ore to finished rail lines, known by this business term.
What is vertical integration?
This 1890 tragedy in South Dakota resulted in the massacre of over 150 Lakota men, women, and children, marking the final armed conflict of the Indian Wars.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
These two Progressive voter empowerment reforms allow everyday citizens to directly propose laws and vote to approve/reject laws passed by their legislature.
What are Initiative and Referendum?
1896 Supreme Court decision establishing the "separate but equal" doctrine, giving constitutional approval for the rapid expansion of southern Jim Crow laws.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy motto that advocated for peaceful diplomatic negotiations while maintaining a strong military force as a deterrent.
What is "Big Stick" Diplomacy ("Speak softly and carry a big stick")?
The color of Mr. Connolly's eyes.
What is gray?
John D. Rockefeller eliminated competitors by creating trusts to buy out rival oil refineries at the same stage of production, known by this term.
What is horizontal integration?
Invention of twisted wire with sharp barbs that fenced off private farmland, ending the open range and traditional long cattle drives.
What is barbed wire?
President Theodore Roosevelt protected 150 national forests, 5 national parks, and created the National Forest Service under this environmental philosophy.
What is Conservation?
Civil rights organization founded in 1909 by W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, and white allies to use federal court lawsuits to dismantle Jim Crow segregation.
What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)?
Policy addition to the Monroe Doctrine asserting that the United States had the right to act as an "international police power" in Latin America.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
Ms. Medley's catchphrase.
You're trying me like a sample.