U.S. Foundations
Western Expansion
Industrialism
Progressive
Imperialism
100
3 Rights found in the Bill of Rights of the Constitution.
What are freedom of speech, right to bear arms, due process by law, trial by jury, right to remain silent, freedom of religion, right to a speedy trial...
100
The idea that the U.S. was meant to have the land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
What is Manifest Destiny
100
What economic system has private ownership of business, some government regulation, competition among producers
What is free enterprise or capitalism
100
People that attempted to bring to light the injustices of factory workers, awful living conditions in cities and the processes of food handling.
What are muckrackers
100
President known as a trust buster, was a Rough Rider and a candidate to the Bull Moose Party
Who is Theodore Roosevelt
200
We the People are the first three words to which important U.S. document.
What is The Constitution
200
Law that allowed settlers to acquire a lot of land and caused western migration.
What is the Homestead Act
200
Attempted to control prices by reducing competition.
What are monopolies or trusts
200
The amendment that gave women a greater influence in government
What is 19th amendment
200
The year the USS Maine sunk, the Spanish American War begins, the U.S. acquires Puerto Rico and Guam
What is 1898
300
Unalienable rights that belong to all human beings
What are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
300
Law in 1877 that attempted to assimilate the Native people into American culture.
What is the Dawes Act
300
This invention allowed for longer work hours for factory workers.
What is the light bulb
300
The Meat Inspection Act was passed partly because of the book written by Uptain Sinclair.
What is the Jungle
300
In 1899, the Open Door Policy was to continue trade with which Asian nation?
What is China
400
Of this list who was NOT a founding father Jonathan Trumball, George Washington, Charles Carroll, Theodore Roosevelt or Benjamin Rush
Who is Theodore Roosevelt
400
The 3rd party that mainly represented the issues of farmers. In addition, they advocated for government ownership of banks, regulation of transportation and popular elections of Senators.
What is the Populist Party
400
The main cause of the U.S. shifting from a rural nation to an urban nation.
What is industry jobs.
400
A law that attempted to dissolve business monopolies
What is the Sherman Anti Trust Act
400
A form of journalism that exagerated the truth and helped to involve the U.S. in the Spanish American War.
What is Yellow Journalism
500
The reasoning and list of grievances that was written to let the world know why the U.S. was fighting against Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence
500
Allowed for towns to be built along the route, faster transportation of goods and people, connected the east with the west.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad
500
Levis Jean Company, buys up cotton farms, textile mills, and retail stores. Which business strategy best reflects this business model
What is Vertical Integration
500
Ways in which citizens were allowed to have a greater influence in lawmaking besides voting.
What are initiatives, referendums and recalls
500
After the Spanish American War, the U.S. saw a need to build this to help move the Navy to the new acquired territories in the Pacific Ocean and to expand trade.
What is the Panama Canal