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Vocab
Muckrakers
100

Who was the President during the Civil War.

Abraham Lincoln

100

Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Taft

Republicans 

100

The Statue of Liberty was a gift from which country?

France

100

Exaggerated News 

Yellow Journalism

100

Wrote the Jungle about the Meating Packing Industry

Upton Sinclair

200

Whose presidency saw the expansion of Federal Land and the passing of the Food and Drug Act?

Theodore Roosevelt

200

Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson

Progressives 

200

What was the name of the ship that mysteriously exploded, causing the US to declare war on Spain?

U.S.S. Maine

200

Belief that certain businesses or groups of people will succeed over others because of evolutionary principles. 

Social Darwinism

200

Wrote about the corruption in the Oil Industry

Ida Tarbell

300

He was President during the Spanish-American War

William McKinley 

300

This political party became popular with farmers

Populist Party

300

These are two famous immigration "docking" stations

Ellis and Angel Island

300

Belief that "stronger" countries can take over and get resources from "weaker" countries.

Imperialism

300
"How the other half lives" 

Jacob Riss

400
During his Presidency women gained the right to vote.

Woodrow Wilson

400

This political party dominated politics after the Civil War

Republican

400

Mark Twain's nickname for the 19th century time period 

The Gilded Age

400

Two phrases that described millionaires in the 19th century were 

Robber Barons and Captains of Industry

400

Wrote about lynching in the Southern United States

Ida B. Wells

500

He broke the most trusts during his presidency and became a Supreme Court Justice afterwards.

William Howard Taft

500

Name a third party that currently exists in the United States

Multiple answers: Green, Reform, Constitution, Libertarian, etc. 

500

This process made the invention of steel easier to create and helped lead to the Industrial Revolution in America.

Bessemer Process 

500

The idea that the United States was required to expand across the rest of the North American continent.  

Manifest Destiny

500

Drew political cartoons and exposed the political corruption in Tammany Hall

Thomas Nast