Key Vocabulary
Firsthand historical evidence used by historians.
What are primary sources?
This was a major cause of industrial accidents in the early 1900s.
What are inadequate safety measures?
This process transformed the U.S. from an agricultural society into one based on manufacturing.
What is industrialization?
This policy emphasized U.S. dominance backed by military strength.
What is Big Stick Diplomacy?
This journalist exposed unsanitary conditions in meatpacking plants.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Sources that analyze or interpret historical events that are secondhand.
What are secondary sources?
This voting restriction was used to bypass the 15th Amendment.
What is a literacy test?
This invention allowed identical products to be assembled step by step in factories.
What is the assembly line?
This foreign policy focused on protecting U.S. financial interests abroad.
What is Dollar Diplomacy?
This book revealed shocking conditions in the meatpacking industry.
What is The Jungle?
The belief that U.S. expansion across the continent was inevitable.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The main purpose of the Sherman Antitrust Act was to dissolve these.
What are monopolies?
This late-1800s law allowed the government to break up monopolies.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Woodrow Wilson differed from Roosevelt and Taft by promoting this abroad.
What is self-governance and democracy?
These two reformers helped immigrants by exposing poor housing and providing education.
Who are Jacob Riis and Jane Addams?
The action of coming to live permanently in another country.
What is immigration?
This political problem involved giving government jobs as rewards for loyalty.
What is political patronage?
This era followed the Civil War and was marked by rapid economic growth and inequality.
What is the Gilded Age? What is Industrialization/the Second Industrial Revolution?
This canal connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and symbolized U.S. imperial power.
What is the Panama Canal?
This was the main motivation behind Progressive Era muckraking books.
What is exposing societal problems and advocating reform?
A punitive ban on trade or cooperation used as protest.
What is a boycott?
This 1876 compromise ended Reconstruction after a disputed election.
What is the Hayes–Tilden Compromise?
This social issue grew as corporations gained enormous influence during the Second Industrial Revolution.
What is the power of big business or monopolies?
The Teller, Foraker, and Platt Amendments addressed the legal status of these nations.
What are countries freed from Spanish domination?
Criticism of resource misuse led to the creation of this agency.
What is the National Park Service?