This allows politicians to hire their friends for government jobs--even if they aren't qualified for them!
What is the spoils system?
100
This is the act of stopping work to get better pay and working conditions.
What is (a) strike.
100
In the election of 1896, this president did almost no campaigning and was supported by big business.
Who is William McKinley?
100
Most of the battles in the Spanish-American War were fought in this country, which many people felt was being treated badly by Spain.
What is Cuba?
100
This law made it illegal for big companies to form monopolies, but it was often used against labor unions.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act.
200
Mark Twain called the 1870s THIS, to describe how the majority of powerless Americans were being controlled by a few wealthy individuals.
What is The Gilded Age?
200
Farmers formed these to raise the price of crops.
What are farm alliances?
200
After the election of 1912, this president continued Roosevelt's actions against big business. He also passed the 16th Amendment which gave government the power to collect income taxes.
Who is President Taft?
200
When this battleship exploded in Cuba, American newspapers blamed Spain.
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
200
This group grew from the belief that powerful businesses were destroying American democracy.
What is the Populist Party.
300
These writers exposed corruption and social problems.
What are Muckrakers?
300
Thomas Naste did this to expose government corruption.
What is draw cartoons?
300
In the 1912 election, President Taft and this candidate split the Republican vote, making it easier for a democratic candidate to win.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
300
After the war, Puerto Rico became a U.S. territory, and so did this future state.
What is Hawaii?
300
This group wanted reforms--like primary elections, initiatives, referendum, and recalls--to help solve America's political and social problems.
Who are Progressives.
400
This involved the Union Pacific Railroad Company using 50 million dollars to lay railroad tracks in order to make another company look successful and pay off a number of corrupt government officials.
What is the Credit Mobilier Scandal?
400
This labor union was open to all workers and favored strikes and boycotts as a bargaining tool.
Who are the Knights of Labor.
400
In the election of 1896, this candidate supported using silver coins and campaigned all over the country.
Who is William Jennings Bryant?
400
As a result of the change made to the Monroe Doctrine, This became the nickname for President Roosevelt's foreign policy in Latin America.
What is "Big Stick"?
400
This system, supported by big businesses, makes a unit of currency (money) equal to a certain weight of gold.
What is the gold standard?
500
President Chester A. Arthur passed the first of these laws, which were created to end the spoils system.
What are civil service laws.
500
In 1886, this was the site of a protest for the deaths of several innocent workers. A bomb went off, killing several cops, and many blamed the Knights of Labor.
What is Haymarket Square?
500
In the election of 1884, this candidate supported the gold standard, but unlike many supporters of big business, he wanted to appoint people to jobs based on their skill.
Who is Grover Cleveland?
500
America's "Open Door Policy" promised free and open trade with China, but it angered this group of Chinese rebels who wanted control of their own country.
Who are the Boxers?
500
President Roosevelt earned this nickname because of his stand against big business.