Identifications
Entertainment featuring the likes of "Buffalo" Bill Cody that glorified life on the frontier
Wild West Shows
Movement for rural areas to cities
Urbanization
Investigative Journalists
Muckrakers
What technology helped shape the west?
Railroads, Barbwire, firearms, etc
A route that passed through moutains, plagued with corruption, and met at Promontory Point, UT
Transcontinental Railroad
Workers uniting for collective bargaining to improve conditions
Unionization
One of the most consequential Americas - Rough Rider, former police commissioner, cowboy, under-Secretary of the Navy
Theodore Roosevelt
What reforms did progressives pursue?
Worker protections, anti-slums, meat inspection, food purity, break up monopolies
Woodrow Wilson's Plan for everlasting peace in Europe
TR v WHT v W - rise of 3rd parties
1912 Presidential Election
One of the leading causes of the Spanish American War was the explosion of this
USS Maine
How did American ideas about postwar relations differ?
Some wanted isolationism, some wanted post war involvement
Considered to be the most democratic way to raise an army to fight in Europe
Selective Service Act
After the Civil War, many including Henry Grady, called for the former Confederacy to industrialize
New South
Carnegie's belief that the wealthy had an obligation to give back to society
Gospel of Wealth
How did foreign policy change in the 19th century?
Imperialism, militarism
Concept where "native born" are superior to those from other contries
Anti-Immigrant Sentiment
All water route to circumvent the world, trade, travel, military
Panama Canal
Name given to big businessmen like Rockefeller and Carnegie
Robber Barrons
How did industrialization shape America?
urbanization, slums, urban reformers