US History 1
Tarriff
Taxes on imported goods
19th Amendment
Womens Suffrage
The Hull House in Chicago, Illinois is connected to who?
Jane Addams
Chicago specialized in...?
Meat Packing
Pittsburg specialized in...?
Steel
Invented the Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
This individual controlled 95 percent of oil refining in the US
JD Rochefellar
1st National Union; open to workers from all trades
National Trades Union
This is a special license that goes to the first person to invent something to protect the invention against copiers.
Patent
18th Amendment
Alcohol made illegal; prohibition
Invented The Light Bulb
Thomas Edison
16th Amendment
Created a federal income tax
1st industrial union
American Railway Union
Two goals of the Knights of Labor.
shorter hours, higher wages, equal pay for men and women
Theodore Roosevelt was president from...?
1901-1909
This inventor developed a new way to make steel.
Henry Bessemer
US gains the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico
Treaty of Paris
This is an economic doctrine that proposes that individuals and corporations should make money however they like without government interference.
Free Enterprise
Cuba gained independence from Spain is a result of...?
Spanish American War
Outlawed monopolies and practices that restrained trade, such as price fixing.
Sherman AntiTrust Act (1890)
Gaining control of all aspects of a products development
Vertical Integration
Urged American leaders to build a stronger navy & to obtain naval bases in Cuba, Hawaii, & the Philippines.
Alfred T. Mahan
When a stronger nation attempts to create an empire by dominating weaker nations economically, politically, culturally
Imperialism
Presidential Election of 1896
Willing J. Bryan runs as Democrat & loses to Republican William McKinley.
17th Amendment
Senators elected by popular vote