12/8 Cities Grow and American Culture Shifts
New farm machinery had this effect on the urban/rural population ratio.
Many farmers moved into the cities, increasing the number of urban dwellers.
Progressives challenged political bosses by doing this.
To make it easier to ship goods between Atlantic and Pacific ports, the U.S. did this?
What is built the Panama Canal?
This document is the Supreme Law of the Land in the United States of America.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
Under Spanish rule, this policy toward international trade in New Mexico (Northern New Spain) was in effect.
The growth of education and more free time led to an increased interest in this activity.
This system helped to ensure that people hired for government jobs were qualified.
Name one cause of American imperialism in the late 1800s.
This branch of the government makes laws?
What is the Legislative Branch?
Under Mexican rule, this policy toward international trade was in effect.
What is international trade was legal?
Disease spread quickly in cities during the early 1900s for these reasons.
This process is used to remove elected officials from office.
What is recall?
U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry traveled to Japan with four warships in 1853 to persuade Japan to do this.
What is open its ports to American consumer goods.
This branch of the government enforces the law.
What is the Executive Branch?
New Mexico officially became a territory with this official Act of Congress?
What is the Compromise of 1850?
People could live outside of the central city but still work in the city because of this.
What is THE JUNGLE?
The U.S. purchased this large piece of land from Russia in 1867.
What is Alaska?
This branch of the government interprets the law?
What is the Judicial Branch?
The Compromise of 1850 included these stipulations.
What is 1) California would enter the Union as a free state; 2) the people of NM and Utah Territories would decide whether they would allow slavery when they became states; 3) Texas agreed to relinquish its claims of land in NM territory all the way to the Rio Grande?
What is below the vast wealth of a few people were the very poor majority?
What is to address the problem of monopolies and oligopolies.
This queen tried to limit the political and economic influence of American planters in her island kingdom.
Who was Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani?
The terms and term limits of a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and a member of the Senate.
What are:
1) 2 years and no term limits for a member of the U.S. House of Representatives; and
2) 6 years and no term limits for a member of the U.S. Senate?
One advantage of becoming a state is this?
What is your representatives in Congress have a vote?
Name two ways that Americans began to enjoy their free time in the early 1900s.
What is watching baseball, listening to jazz music, and reading magazines.
Japan and Europe carved out spheres of influence in China for this reason?
This group elects the president?
What is the Electoral College?
What is you don't have to pay as many taxes?
What is yellow journalism?
What is he persuaded business owners and union leaders to accept arbitration?
The U.S. promoted this policy in China to challenge the spheres of influence of other nations in China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
This group directs the various departments and meets with the president regularly.
What is the president's Cabinet?
What is the Mexican American War?