West
This connected the MARKETS and various economic activities of the west and east coasts of the continental US, completed the settlement of the west, allowing for a SHIFT in POPULATION from the East to the West.
Transcontinental Railroad
time of a large increase in wealth, more available goods at lower prices due to the assembly lines and more efficient manufacturing processes
Industrialization
Laws created to PROTECT CONSUMERS by requiring accurate labels on food and Drugs
Pure Food and Drug Act & Meat Inspection Act
Teddy Roosevelt's philosophy - In international affairs, mediated conflicts between other countries to protect Latin American Affairs and US Businesses interests
Big Stick Policy
Causes of World War I - MANIA
What does it stand for
militarism - building of military supplies
alliances - friendships among countries
nationalism - pride in your country
imperialism - gaining markets/resources
assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
Prospectors faced HARSH CONDITIONS while destroying the environment, including the SOIL near Dawson City, Yukon, Canada after gold was discovered there in the late 19th century.
Klondike Gold Rush
Rapid immigration, along with the explosion of Americans moving from farms to the cities due to ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES, caused an urban boom
Urbanization
Women's suffragist and Social reformer who worked to improve the lives of the working class and immigrants with settlement houses
Jane Addams and Hull House
Sanford B Dole pushed for the annexation due to this tropical island area's resources of sugar and fruit and gaining of military bases in the Pacific
Annexation of Hawaii
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Germany violates the rights of neutral countries by sinking ships, enemy or neutral, resulting inWoodrow Wilson and the US joining WWI, sending in American Expeditionary Forces to end the stalemate on the western front
Encouraged WESTWARD MIGRATION by allowing heads of families to buy 160 acres of land for a small fee ($10-30); settlers were required to develop and remain on the land for five years.
Homestead Act
A process for making steel more efficiently, patented in 1856. Creating growth through infrastructure such as transcontinental railroads, skyscrapers, and bridges
Bessemer Process
Graduated income tax based on level of income
16th Amendment (1913)
This man was proponent of building a large navy for expansion of markets and protection in times of war such as obtaining coaling stations in the Pacific.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Refusing to take side in a war resulting in US continuing to trade with European Nations and US banks making loans to European Nations.
Policy of Neutrality
Law that suspended Chinese immigration into America. Due to concerns about competition for jobs in California due to the increase in Chinese immigration. RESULTING in industries criticizing the loss of Chinese workers
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Democratic presidential candidate in 1896, advocated free silver, attracting many voters from the south and west due to economic inequality between urban businesses and rural farmers
William Jennings Bryan
Ship canal cut across the isthmus of Panama by United States, it opened in 1915. fought yellow fever, mountainous jungleslandslides, political upheaveal and rebellions, destruction of the environment
Panama Canal
Navals bases, refueling/coaling stations. & markets and resources
made it illegal for Americans to speak disloyally about the US government, constitution, or flag - this violated civil liberties guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution
Sedition Act of 1918
individuals or minority groups adopt the customs, language, and values of a dominant culture (ie learning to speak English from attending school
Assimilation
economic system where the government should not interfere in the marketplace and allow businesses to adjust production based on market forces
Laissez-faire economics
Trust Buster and known for advocacy of global expansion of US businesses
William Howard Taft
A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort - World War One, unemployment decreases, women hold jobs never held before.
Total War
Treaty ending World War 1
Treaty of Versailles