Gilded Age
Industry most associated with Carnegie
Steel
Goals of the Progressive movement
Social, political, and economic reforms
Main cause of the Spanish American War
The explosion of the USS Maine
Immediate cause of WWI
Assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand
MOH recipient who captured 132 Germans
Alvin York
Industry most associated with Vanderbilt
Railroads
Journalists who exposed corruption and social injustices
Muckrakers
Biased and exaggerated news reports
Yellow Journalism
Reasons U.S. enters WWI
German unrestricted submarine warfare and/or the Zimmerman Telegram
Trench Warfare
Industry most associated with Rockefeller
Oil
Written by Upton Sinclair, it led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act
The Jungle
Free trade with China for all nations
Open Door Policy
U.S. policy at the beginning of WWI
Neutrality
Controversial laws that made it illegal to criticize the U.S. government during WWI
The Espionage and Sedition Acts
Results of industrialization in the Gilded Age
Growth of cities, factories and urbanization
Prohibited voter discrimination by gender
19th Amendment
Stated the US had the right to intervene in Latin America
Roosevelt Corollary
Law that established a national draft for military service
Selective Service Act of 1917
MAIN reasons for WWI
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
Law used to break up monopolies & trusts
Sherman Antitrust Act
Established a national banking system
Federal Reserve Act
Territories acquired by the U.S. after defeating Spain
Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico
Wilson's proposal to establish peace and prevent future wars
14 Points
Reason the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles
Opposition to U.S. involvement in the League of Nations