The "Golden Lie"
Built by Irish and Chinese immigrants between 1863-1869, this transformed transportation, expansion, and trade from coast to coast.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
Formed to fight for better pay, hours, and working conditions.
What are labor unions?
The Spanish American War was fought to secure independence for what island nation?
What is Cuba?
A nickname for journalists who "raked up" and exposed filth, greed, corruption, and "muck" in society.
What is a Muckraker?
He formed the first trust, the Standard Oil Company, in 1882.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
A person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices.
What is a "Robber Baron"?
The place in which Chinese immigrants were processed when they came to America.
What is Angel Island?
This cold, very large territory was purchased by the US from the Russians for 7.2 million of dollars in 1867.
What is Alaska?
A term used to describe the growth of cities as a result of people living and working in them.
What is urbanization?
Wrote a novel detailing the horrors of the industrial age, focusing attention on the meatpacking industry, leading to public outrage and the passage of food safety laws like the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
A business leader whose means of amassing a personal fortune contributed positively to the country in some way.
What is a "Captain of Industry"?
These two reformers led the women's suffrage movement in the 1890s that fought for women to get the right to vote. (Name one.)
Who are Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony?
Two reasons the US was interested in annexing Hawaii.
What is military opportunity - securing a naval port in the Pacific, and economic opportunity - controlling the sugar trade.
The policy by which strong nations extend their political, miliary, and eonomic control over weaker nations.
What is imperialism?
A strong nationalist, she traveled to Washington DC to fight for independence, only to be imprisoned in her own home when her island nation was annexed by the US on January 17, 1893.
Who is the last ruler of Hawaii, Queen Liliʻuokalani.
A new type of dwelling built to accommodate factory workers, who often lived 15+ to a room with no sanitation.
What is a tenement?
Leaving your country because of war, famine or gang violence is a ____________ factor.
What is a Push factor?
The idea that Western nations had a moral duty to civilize and uplift non-white populations through colonialism, often framing imperialism as a benevolent act.
What is the White Man's Burden?
Term for a person who gives money to charities. (Think Carnegie)
What is a philanthropist?
Famous American author who coined the term "The Gilded Age"
Who is Mark Twain?
The Bessemer Process allowed for iron to be processed into this strong metal alloy.
What is steel?
Passed by Congress in 1890, this act prohibited trusts and organized monopolies from restricting the free trade of goods and services.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
Of the territories the US gained following the Spanish American War, this is the only one that is no longer a US territory.
What is the Philippines?
The process of adapting to the culture and ways of life in a new place.
What is assimilation?
He was a Cuban poet and protester who inspired rebellion against the Spanish.
Who is Jose Marti?