Western Expansion
Who was the first human embodiment of the United States?
Columbia
This term describes a government policy when they place very few rules/regulations on business.
Laissez-Faire Economics
What were investigative journalists that exposed corruption called?
Muckrakers
This canal, completed in 1914, was built by the U.S. to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Panama Canal
What are the 4 M.A.I.N. causes of WWI?
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
These were African Americans who moved West after the Civil War.
Exodusters
Name one Robber Baron and their industry.
Andrew Carnegie-Steel
John Rockefeller-Oil
J. P. Morgan-Banks
Which muckraker wrote about lynchings in the South even though it put her in danger?
Ida B. Wells
In 1893, this Pacific monarch was overthrown with the help of American businessmen and later annexed by the United States in 1898.
Queen Liliuokalani/Hawaii
Whose assassination started the war?
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Which item brought about the end of cattle drives in the West?
Barbed Wire
People during the Gilded Age moved from _______ places to _____________ places.
Rural, Urban
Who wrote The Jungle and what was it about?
Upton Sinclair and the meat packing industry
The explosion of this U.S. battleship in Havana Harbor helped spark the Spanish-American War.
U.S.S. Maine
List three reasons the U.S. entered the war?
Sinking of the Lusitania
The Zimmerman Telegram
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Which piece of legislation divided up Indigenous land so they could sell most of it to white settlers?
The Dawes Act
Which group of workers were payed the least?
Child laborers
Which progressive president pushed for regulation in the food industry after reading The Jungle?
Teddy Roosevelt
This sensationalist style of journalism helped inflame public opinion in favor of war with Spain.
Yellow Journalism
List one type of new military technology used during WWI?
Gas
Tanks
Machine Guns
Zeppelins
Subs
Airplanes
Which piece of legislation prevented Chinese immigrants from entering the U.S.?
The Chinese Exclusion Act
What type of buildings did most Urban workers live in?
Tenements
Name the three progressive presidents.
Teddy Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
This amendment promised that the United States would not annex Cuba after the Spanish-American War, though the U.S. maintained control through the Platt Amendment.
Teller Amendment
Who took the blame for WWI?
Germany