Industrialization
This inventor established the first modern research laboratory in New Jersey that had engineers working as a team rather than independently
Who is Thomas Edison?
Poverty, lack of jobs, religious persecution, & famine
What are push factors for immigration?
Wilson's plan for peace after WWI, which included an international organization named the League of Nation
What are the fourteen points?
Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft, and Teddy Roosevelt
Who are the progressive presidents?
A grant by the federal government giving an inventor the exclusive right to develop, use, and sell an invention for a set period of time
What is a patent?
1886 labor related protest in Chicago which ended in deadly violence
What is the Haymarket Riot?
The conflict that ended with US territorial gains of the Philippines, Hawaii, and Guam
What is the Spanish-American War?
This type of warfare caused a stalemate and many deaths of soldiers attempting to cross no mans land
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?
The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel - allowed high quantities of steel to be produced
What is the Bessemer Process?
Urban cultural landscapes in which one or more ethnic groups predominate.
What are ethnic neighborhoods?
Journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration
What is Yellow Journalism?
Includes symptoms such as fatigue, tremors, confusion, nightmares and impaired sight and hearing
What is shell shock?
Roosevelt's progressive party during the election of 1912
The lenient government policies that left private businesses without regulation
Laissez-faire
The process in which employers negotiate with labor unions about hours, wages, and other working conditions
Collective bargaining
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?
Limited freedom of speech during WWI
What are the espionage and sedition Acts?
a bill originating with the people rather than lawmakers
What is an initiative?
This innovation allowed for messages to be delivered across the country in minutes
What is the telegraph?
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?
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?
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The campaign plan that included more government regulation of business and unions, more social welfare programs, and women’s suffrage
What is Roosevelt's New Nationalism