Founding Documents
The document that founded the United States of America.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The term that describes complete control of the market.
What is a monopoly?
This invention allowed easier transportation of resources, people and goods across the United States.
What are railroads?
Support or advocacy of social reform.
What is Progressivism?
The name of the war that was fought between the U.S. and Spain in 1898.
What is the Spanish-American War?
The document that outlines the basis for all government within the United States.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
To refuse to work or protest by not working.
What is going on strike?
This invention made producing steel inexpensive.
What is the Bessemer Process?
American writers who exposed corruption in businesses and politics.
Who are Muckrakers?
An area that is under the full or partial control of another country.
What is a colony?
What is the Bill of Rights?
This invention turned heat into motion.
What is the steam engine?
An organized association workers intent on improving their conditions of employment.
What are labor unions?
This Amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
A tax on any imported or exported good.
What is a tariff?
This outlined the process for admitting a new state to the U.S. and guaranteed that newly created states would be equal to the original 13 states.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
What are Robber Barons?
This type of economical system means hands off economics.
What is Laissez-Faire Economics?
The act that banned monopiles and authorized the federal government to break up large corporations.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
The canal that connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
The right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
What is survival of the fittest?
This Robber Baron monopolized 90% of the oil industry during the Gilded Age.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
The Amendment that initially banned the production, sale and consumption of alcohol in the U.S.
What is the 18th Amendment?
Stories that newspapers wrote as objective truth but were often exaggerated.
What is Yellow Journalism?