World War I
This man was killed and it started World War I.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
He invented the light bulb.
Thomas Edison
This was nearly destroyed by over hunting.
The buffalo.
This ship was sunk. This made the U.S. ready to go to war with Spain.
The sinking of the USS Maine.
The 19th Amendment.
Women's suffrage.
This new weapon of war made silent/secret attacks on ships that drew the ire of many Allied countries.
German u-boats/submarines
This occurred because of economic troubles in a town that George Pullman owned/created.
The Pullman Strike
This was created to assimilate Native Americans into American society.
The Dawes Act
Theodore Roosevelt created this unit that fought in Cuba at San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War.
The "Rough Riders"
Wrote the How the Other Half Lives, that had pictures of the terrible tenements in New York City.
Jacob Riis
These new weapons (name two) of war made war more terrible, but did not break trench warfare.
machine guns, gas, airplanes, grenades, tanks
He controled New York City politics, which was very corrupt.
William "Boss" Tweed
This made settling the Great Plains more appealing to settlers.
The Homestead Act
France tried, but T. Roosevelt got the U.S. working on this. Although, very difficult to build, when finished it encouraged world trade.
The Panama Canal
This would ban the sell of alcohol.
The 18th Amendment.
Woodrow Wilson wrote this to try and create peace among nations forever. Part of it was the League of Nations, which the U.S. never joined.
The Fourteen Points
As the national market grew, this company sold many huge magazines to sell all kinds of items (even houses).
Sears and Roebuck
Native Americans were moved on to these.
Reservations
Theodore Roosevelt carried his big stick and modeled this policy after the Monroe Doctrine, and protected Latin American from European intervention.
The Roosevelt Corollary
After the assassination of William McKinley, this man became president. He would be the start of the Progressive presidents.
Theodore Roosevelt
Because of this, Germany was able to focus on the Western Front, but it was not a reason the U.S. got into World War I.
The Russian Revolution
These types of business ideas allowed people like Rockefeller and Carnegie to make so much money. One you owned all the places like you. The other, you owned all the things/companies need to make your product.
Horizontal and Vertical integration.
This was a significant reason persons moved west.
President Taft used this to control, economically and politically, Latin American countries that were important to U.S. interests.
Dollar Diplomacy
Because of books like The Jungle, the government passed this.
The Pure Food and Drug Act