Western Expansion
Who was the primary immigrant group that worked on the transcontinental railroad?
Chinese
Who perfected the incandescent lightbulb?
Thomas Edison
What was the Temperance Movement?
The banning of alcoholic beverages
What is the policy in which stronger nations extend their economic, political, or military control over weaker territories?
Imperialism
What type of warfare was used in WWI?
trench warfare
What political party demanded reforms to lift the burden of debt from farmers and other workers and give peope a greater voice in government?
Populist Party
Who owned Standard Oil Company?
John D Rockefeller
What was Ida B. Wells fighting against?
lynching
Why did American planters in HI want the US to annex the islands?
so they wouldn't have to pay tariffs
What ship did German U-boats sink that caused the death of 128 American passengers?
Lusitania
What act tried to Americanize (assimilate) Native Americans?
Dawes Act
What is it called when you buy out all of your suppliers to create a monopoly?
Vertical integration
What was Jacob Riis book called and what did he expose?
How the Other Half Lives / conditions in NYC tenaments
What was the letter sent by the Spanish minster to the US which was stolen from a post office in Cuba that called President McKinley "week" called?
The de' Lome Letter
What is the area of land between the trenches that was a barren expanse of mud postmarked with shell craters and filled with barbed wire
No-man's land
What is the monetary system in which the government would give citizens either gold/silver in exchange for paper currency or checks?
Bimetallism
Who was the president of American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
Samuel Gompers
What strengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Clayton Antitrust Act
What country does the US go to war with shortly after the Spanish American War because the country's people were outraged about annexation?
Philippines
What was Woodrow Wilson's 14th point in his Fourteen Points?
League of Nations
What is one reform of the Populist Party that we have today?
8-hour work day, graduated income tax, election of US senators, secret ballot, federal load program, increase in the money supply
Jane Addams
What agency was given the power to investigate possible violations of regulatory statutes, requires periodic reports from corporations, and end unfair business practices?
Federal Trade Commission
What policy said the US would use force to protect its economic interests in Latin America?
Roosevelt Corollary
What kind of government was set up in Russia in March 1917?
Communism