Industrialization
Immigration & Labor
Progressivism
Imperialism
Mixed Bag
100

Novels, books, newspapers, photography, and illustration (cartoons) are examples of tools used by which group during the late 1800s to early 1900s

What were the Muckrakers?

100

a refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest

What is a Strike?

100

Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft, and Teddy Roosevelt 

Who are the progressive presidents? 

100

The conflict that ended with US territorial gains of the Philippines, Hawaii, and Guam 

What is the Spanish-American War? 

100

a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.

What is "Imperialism"?

200

This famous political cartoonist was a critic of government corruption which was often the subject of his work

Who is Thomas Nast?

200

An organized group of workers who come together to make decisions about the work environment, including negotiations for wages and working conditions.

What are Labor Unions?

200

The President who doubled the amount of national parks in the U.S.

Who was "Theodore Roosevelt"?

200

This document declared the Americas closed to further European colonization.

What was the "Monroe Doctrine"?

200

When a company has exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service

What is a "Monopoly"?

300

A system that promotes corruption and allows businesses to control government by getting candidates elected for their own benefit 

What is a political machine?

300

The process in which employers negotiate with labor unions about hours, wages, and other working conditions

What is Collective Bargaining?

300

This progressive group brought attention to racial inequality by using the courts to fight grandfather clauses

What is the NAACP?

300

an extreme nationalist, a person who strongly identifies with a country or nation and believes his or her country or nation is superior to all others

What is a "Jingoist"?

300

Journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration

What is Yellow Journalism? 

400

a series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled.

What is the Assembly Line? 

400

1886 labor related protest in Chicago which ended in deadly violence

What is the Haymarket Riot?

400

A national banking system with 12 district banks supervised by a federal reserve board - designed to provide stability and flexibility to the US financial system

What is the Federal Reserve Act?

400

Used "Dollar Diplomacy" to drive private financial investment in China and Central America believing it would lead to greater stability & promote US business interests 

Who is William Howard Taft? 

400

Allowed Americans to vote directly for U.S. senators instead of having state legislatures vote for them

What is the Seventeenth Amendment?

500

The lenient government policies that left private businesses without regulation 

Laissez-faire 

500

Labor union that organized skilled workers in a specific trade and made specific demands rather than seeking broad changes

What is the American Federation of Labor?  

500

a bill originating with the people rather than lawmakers

What is an initiative? 

500

This required Cuba to agree to never sign a treaty with a foreign power that impaired its independence, to permit the U.S. to intervene in Cuba’s affairs to preserve its independence and to maintain law and order, and to allow the U.S. to maintain naval bases in Cuba 

What is the Platt Amendment? 

500

A group who opposed the United States annexing the Philippines and believed that overseas expansion went against the American ideal of the right to self-government.

What was the American Anti-Imperialist League?