Reconstruction
and Gilded Age
and Gilded Age
This president was assassinated in 1865 shocking the nation just after the civil war.
Who Was Abraham Lincoln?
Workers joined together in these groups to fight for better pay, hours, and safer working conditions
What is a Labor Union?
Who are Progressives?
This was the name given to exaggerated news reporting that pushed the United States towards war in 1898
What is Yellow Journalism?
What is commonly agreed to be the start of World War One?
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
The period after the civil war marked by rapid industrial growth and big business
What Is The Gilded Age?
This was a crowded, unsafe workplace that still exists around the world today.
Journalists who exposed corruption and problems in society
Who were the Muckrakers?
This was the name given to the conflict between the U.S and Spain
What is the Spanish - American War?
This event caused the United States to enter the war
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
Also accepted:
Telegraph from Germany to Mexico
Sinking Of The Lusitania
George Pullman was known for making these
What Are Sleeping Cars?
What is a strike?
This muckraker wrote The Jungle exposiing unsafe meatpacking conditions
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This foreign policy warned European nations to stay out of the Western Hemisphere.
This was the name of Germany's secret underwater weapon
What is a U-Boat?
This invention and industry helped connect the nation and fueled industrial growth after the civil war
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This tragic 1911 factory fire killed over 140 workers and led to many safety reforms
This muckraker is known for his photography that often displayed immigrants in poverty.
Who Is Jacob Riis?
The idea that the U.S Should expand its influence overseas
What is Imperialism?
This was the name of the treaty that ended World War One
What is the Treaty Of Versailles?
This was a large business that controlled prices and limited competition during the Gilded Age.
What is a monopoly?
This group often worked dangerous jobs for very little pay during the gilded age.
What is Child Laborers / Children?
Reforms often aimed to regulate businesses and protect these people
Who are workers/consumers?
After the Spanish American war, the U.S gained control of territories like Puerto Rico and _______
Guam
Philippines
American Samoa
Name the countries of the triple Alliance
Or
Name the countries of the Triple Entente
Name them all for double points.
Alliance: Russia, France, and Britain
Entente: Italy, Austria-Hungary, Germany