Gilded Age
(1870 - 1900)
(1870 - 1900)
The effect of this increased number of settlers out west. It increased commerce and communication.
What is the Transcontinental railroad?
Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle affected lives of Americans. What did the government pass in reponse to this book?
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
Teddy Roosevelt helped establish this in Latin America to speed up travel time for our new navy. This cut through allows ships to travel efficiently between Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Panama Canal?
This was one of the main causes for America joining WW1. An example of this is the sinking of the famous Lusitania ship enraged American citizens.
What is Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare?
This person was the first to fly across the Atlantic Ocean and advanced aviation and an advocate for its safety.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
This President established the National Park system and saved millions of acres of land in 1902.
Who is President Theodore Roosevelt?
To satisfy NATIVIST predjudices in California, congress passed restrictions on immigration from China.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The idea or belief that the expansion of the U.S. throughout the American continent was both justified and inevitable.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This person wrote a book about the horrible living conditions of the poor in the urban tenements and slums.
Who is Jacob Riis and his book "How the other half lives"?
This person encouraged America to build a navy in order to become a world power and secure trade and travel abroad (overseas).
Who is Admiral Alfred Mahan?
This type of warfare was caused by the invention of the machine gun causing soldiers to dig trenches for protection. This made frontal assualts difficult, resulting in long periods of stalemate.
What is Trench Warfare?
The influence of this new manufacturing technique by Henry Ford helped increase productivity and lowered item costs.
What is the assembly line?
This decade long event was caused by poor soil management such as drought and over-farming.
What is the Dust Bowl?
The Activism of this person impacted American government with the passage of 19th Amendment, granting suffrage to women.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
Andrew Carnegie and the wealthy of this time period believed that they should engage in philanthropy that enriches the live of others. They built libraries, colleges, and parks for the public.
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
This person grew pinnaples on Hawaii but helped overthrow Queen Liluokalini and annexed her island.
Who is Sanford B. Dole?
This policy was created to encourage and protect trade in China with other countries.
What is the Open Door Policy?
This message inlfuenced the U.S. entry into WW1 as it revealed a proposed military alliance between Germany and Mexico.
What is the Zimmernman telegram?
This was the flourishing of African-American culture in NYC. This created Jazz and famous literature by Langston Hughes
What is the Harlem Renaisance?
This person is a was notorious corrupt politician for stealing millions of dollars from New York Tammany Hall.
Who is Boss Tweed?
This Act increased population going west. This Act gave 160 acres of land if settlers can survive and farm on the land for 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
In 1898 more than 200 Americans died when this battleship exploded in Havana, Cuba. This along with Yellow Journalism prompted the beginning of the Spanish-American War.
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
Industrialization created low-wage, low-skill jobs with workers. These 2 Union groups were formed in response to these conditions.
What is the Knights of Labor and the American federation of Labor?
Control of Hawaii contributed to the power of the United States because the islands served as ...
What is a military base for supplies and refueling in the Pacific?
With the new weapons of war like the machine gun and the tank, this weapon was banned after WW1 when the Germans used it.
What is Poisoned Gas?
This debate between Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan in the Scopes Monkey Trial was a clash between 2 societies ideals.
What are traditional values vs. modern views?
OR
What is Religion vs. Science?
This African-American Progressive reformer attempted to expand political and economic rights of African-Americans by founding the N.A.A.C.P. (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
Who is W.E.B. Dubois?
This Amendment began prohibition and increased Organized crime in the 1920's.
What is the 18th Amendment?
The steel industry in the United States expanded largely because of Andrew Carnegies new process making steel more affordable.
What is the Bessemer Process?
This Journalist and social reformer was responsible for exposing the brutality associated with Lynching.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
As a result of the Spanish American war, the United States acquired and became a political power in these 3 territories.
What is the Phillipines, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
This treaty ended WW1 but guranteed WW2 because it punished Germany severely by demanding no military and Germany had to pay reparations for the entire war.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
These are the men who were arrested and executed due to the Nativist fears spurred on by the Red Scare of the 1920's.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
This was threatened by President Frankin D. Roosevelt when congress refused to fund his New Deal programs. He threatened to increase the current 9 judges to 15 to get his way.
What is called "Court packing" the Supreme Court?
This purpose of this Act was to assimilate Indian tribes into U.S. Society.
What is the Dawes Severalty Act of 1877