RAILROADS & BIG BUSINESS
This invention improved communication by allowing people to speak directly over long distances
What is the telephone?
European immigrants entered the United States through this processing center in New York
What is Ellis Island?
This railroad, completed in 1869, connected the eastern and western United States
What is the transcontinental railroad?
These journalists exposed corruption and social problems in American society
What are muckrakers?
This organization was formed to fight for African American rights and equality
What is the NAACP?
U.S. actions after the Spanish-American War, including acquiring overseas territories, are examples of this broader policy
What is imperialism?
This invention allowed factories and cities to operate longer hours by providing light at night
What is the electric light bulb?
Asian immigrants were processed through this immigration station on the West Coast
What is Angel Island?
Plains Indians depended on this animal for food, clothing, and survival
What is the buffalo?
This book exposed unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry
What is The Jungle?
These laws required separate public facilities for African Americans and whites
What are Jim Crow laws?
This major engineering project created a faster route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
What is the Panama Canal?
This company controlled over 90 percent of U.S. oil refining through a system of trusts
What is Standard Oil?
Workers formed labor unions to improve these three major workplace conditions
What are wages, hours, and working conditions?
After continued conflict, Native Americans were forced onto these lands controlled by the government
What are reservations?
Upton Sinclair’s book exposed unsafe conditions in the meatpacking industry and led to this law
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
This amendment, passed after the Progressive Era, granted women the right to vote nationwide
What is the 19th Amendment?
Following victory in the Spanish-American War, the United States gained control of these three territories (worth triple points)
What are Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines?
This industry grew rapidly because railroads needed large amounts of it for tracks and infrastructure.
What is steel?
This labor organization focused on improving wages, hours, and working conditions
What is the American Federation of Labor?
Chinese immigrants built the Central Pacific Railroad, while this group built the Union Pacific
Who are Irish immigrants?
Progressives pushed for this amendment, which established the direct election of U.S. Senators
What is the 17th Amendment?
This Supreme Court case upheld segregation under “separate but equal”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This type of journalism used exaggerated headlines and stories to influence public opinion during the Spanish-American War
What is yellow journalism?
Standard Oil became this type of business by controlling nearly all oil production and distribution in the United States
What is a monopoly?
This man led the American Federation of Labor
Who is Samuel Gompers?
The destruction of the buffalo and arrival of settlers led to this series of conflicts between Native Americans and U.S. forces
What are the Indian Wars?
This Progressive goal focused on protecting natural resources and led to the creation of national parks
What is conservation?
Women reformers worked in these centers to improve conditions for immigrants and the urban poor
What are settlement houses?
This policy expanded the Monroe Doctrine by stating that the United States could intervene in Latin America and act as an “international police power”
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
Railroads transported crops, livestock, manufactured goods, and oil, helping create this type of economy across the United States
What is a national market?
Immigrants contributed to industrial growth by providing this type of labor for factories
What is cheap labor?
U.S. reformers attempted to force Native Americans to adopt American culture through this policy
What is assimilation?
Progressives supported these three reforms to expand voter power(worth triple points!)
What are initiative, referendum, and recall?
Southern states used these methods to deny African Americans the right to vote
What are literacy tests, poll taxes, and white primaries?
This foreign policy approach justified U.S. intervention in Latin America using military strength when necessary
What is Big Stick Diplomacy?