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Gilded Age
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What was the name of the strike that resulted in the death of the Knights of Labor?
Haymarket Riot
100

Grassroots movement led mostly by poor farmers in the late 1800s

Populist Movement

100

Motivations for US imperialism

Access to new markets and cheap resources; naval (military) bases 

100

Resulted in a stalement on the western front

Trench Warfare

100

Axis Powers

Germany, Italy, Japan

200

Process for manufacturing steel quickly and cheaply

Bessemer Process

200

Muckraker who exposed the corruption of standard oil

Ida Tarbell

200

It connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, drastically reducing travel times for military and commercial ships, cementing U.S. global power.

Panama Canal
200
Why did Wilson win the Election of 1912?
Republicans split the vote between Taft and TR
200

Reason for American entrance into WWII?

Bombing of Pearl Harbor

300

Housing in the slums of urbanized areas

tenements

300

Progressive Reformers attempted to challenge political corruption by introducing these three practices. 

Recall, Reform, Referendum

300

Strong advocate of annexation of Hawaii, and relative of the popular fruit company.

Sandford B. Dole

300

Reasons for US involvement. 

Sinking of the Lusitania, Zimmerman Telegram, Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
300

Government agency used to manage the wartime economy. 

War production board

400
What was the Credit Mobilier scandal?
Union Pacific RR hired themselves to work on western RR and charged inflated rates, with the full knowledge of US Congressmen
400

What are two items on Populist Party's agenda?

nationalizing railroads, telegraph and telephone graduated income tax unlimited coinage of silver

400

Land aquistions following the Spanish-American War

What are Guam, Puerto Rico, Philippines

400

It's signing resulted in: 

Germany had to accept blame and pay reparations Establish a League of Nations

Treaty of Versailles

400

Supreme Court ruling that upheld Executive Order 9066 as a "wartime necessity"

Korematsu v. United States

500

The law President Arthur enacted to rid the nation of the spoils system?

Pendleton Civil Service Act

500
"Beware the Meat!" - The author and title of the work that prompted Congress to create the Meat Inspection Act of 1906.
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
500

What is the name of the addition to the Treaty of Paris (1898) that dictated Cuba's relationship to the USA?

Platt Amendment

500

Wilson's plan for peace

14 Points

500

These conferences were crucial World War II meetings among the "Big Three" allies that decided the postwar fate of Europe, and set the stage for the Cold War

Yalta and Potsdam