industrial revolution
Americans had transformed the U.S into the worldlwading what?
Industrial power
By the 1890s more than half of all immigrants coming to the United States were from where?
Europe
What were the goals of prgressivism?
To address problems made from industrialization, urbanization, and political corruptions.
This event is credited with triggering the Spanish-American War
The shinking of the U.S.S.Maine
What government committee was responsible for using propaganda to sway public opinion on the war effort?
Committee of public information
These respurces were equally as important as natural resources.
Human resources
What is Old immigrations?
A wave of immigrants arriving between early 1800 and the 1880s.
What is the 16th amendment about
Allowing federal income tax
What cause an insurrection to begin in the Philipines in 1899?
Filipino nationalist wanted full indepndence but the U.S. aqquired the philippines from spain after the Spanish-American War.
What event touched off the first declaration of war in WW1?
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
What were the two railroad companies thatbuilt the transcontinetal railroad
Union pacific and central pacific
What is new immigration?
A wave of immigration that came around 1890.
What is the 17th amendment about?
Established direct election of senators.
What is yellow journalism
a style of news reporting that prioritizes eye-caughing headlines.
What cargo was the Lusitania carrying when it was sunk.
It was carrying cheese, fur, and copper
what is it called when a single company achieves control of an entire market?
Monopoly
This is known as the guilded age.
What is the 18th amendment about?
Enacted prohibition of alchol.
Americas peimary goal throughout the Spanish American war was to do which of the following.
They wanted to expand their territory.
Realizing a draft was necessary, Congress created a new system of conscription called?
The selective service system
Why did business owners hire children to work in facories?
They could pay them less.
During the immigration period for the first time in our countrys history more Americans lived in?
They lived in cites more than rural areas.
What is the 19th amendment about?
Granted women the right to vote.
Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
The great migration during WW1 was the flow of?
Many africans amercans seeking to escape jim crow segregation and find better economic opportunities.