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This was a phase of rapid standardization and industrialization from the late 19th century into the early 20th century. Countless technological advances were made at record speed, leading to many modern day inventions being produced during this period of time.
Second Industrial Revolution
These powerful and influential newspaper moguls championed yellow journalism and revolutionized the way Americans consumed information from the media during the late 1800s.
William Hearst/Joseph Pulitzer
A conflict in 1898 between the United States and Spain; the conflict was used by the victorious United States to obtain possession of several Spanish colonies.
Spanish-American War
This was the refined fuel that powered new internal combustion engines and revolutionized transportation.
Petroleum
This was a tactic in which authors would sensationalize stories in order to sell more magazines; it has become synonymous with terms such as clickbait and fake news
Yellow Journalism
The policy or practice of extending power and influence through territorial expansion, Generally achieved through military force or political/economic manipulation.
Imperialism
A territory (and later state) America annexed in 1900 after white planters led a revolution and overthrew the previous Native government.
Hawaii
A scientist that conducted many experiments and studies on nature and wildlife during the mid-1800s. He is credited with popularizing the ideas of “survival of the fittest” and natural selection.
Charles Darwin
A war between America and a pacific island nation’s revolutionaries after America took possession of the nation after the Spanish American War.
Philippine-American War
This invention during the Second Industrial Revolution would power automobiles, locomotives, ships, and airplanes, and paved the way for mass mobility and the steadily rising exchange of people and goods worldwide.
Internal Combustion Engine
This is an ideology that emerged in Western Europe and North America in the 1870s that argued that the wealthy elite was chosen by nature to guide the human race and that the poor were meant to be used to improve the situation for the wealthy.
Social Darwinism
This was an addition to the Monroe Doctrine articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1904. The addition states that the United States will intervene in conflicts between the European countries and Latin American countries to enforce legitimate claims of the European powers.
Roosevelt Corollary
A canal built in Central America that revolutionized travel by allowing ships to pass through central America rather than going all the way around North or South America.
Panama Canal
An agreement between the U.S. and Cuba that attempted to protect Cuba's independence from foreign intervention. Over time, this allowed the United States to take major political and economic control of “independent” Cuba, angering many Cubans.
Platt Amendment