Industrial Growth/Innovation
He invented the light bulb and improved electric power.
Who is Thomas Edison?
Law that encouraged settlement by offering 160 acres to settlers.
What is the Homestead Act?
Journalists who exposed problems in society and government.
What are muckrakers?
Amendment that gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
The spark that started WWI was the assassination of this man.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Andrew Carnegie controlled this major U.S. industry.
What is steel?
Native Americans relied heavily on this animal for food, tools, and clothing.
What is the buffalo?
He exposed unsafe meatpacking conditions in The Jungle.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Movement to end the sale and use of alcohol.
What is the Temperance Movement? (or Prohibition era)
U.S. president during WWI.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
A business that completely controls an industry is called this.
What is a monopoly?
This connected the East and West coasts.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This reformer worked for women’s voting rights.
Who is Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul, Carrie Chapman Catt, etc.
Reform that required truthful labels and safer food production.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
A ship carrying Americans that was torpedoed by a German U-boat.
What is the RMS Lusitania?
This innovation by Henry Ford changed factory production forever.
What is the assembly line?
This 1890 event marked the end of Native American resistance on the Plains.
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?
He broke up trusts and supported conservation.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
These apartments housed many poor city workers and were often unsafe.
What are tenements?
Intercepted message urging Mexico to attack the U.S.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
These laws attempted to stop unfair business monopolies in the late 1800s.
What are antitrust laws (Sherman Antitrust Act)?
Term describing the forced movement of tribes onto limited land areas.
What is reservation policy?
She established settlement houses, like the Hull House, to support immigrants.
Who is Jane Addams?
This novel by Jacob Riis exposed terrible living conditions in cities.
What is How the Other Half Lives?
Wilson's plan for peace after the war.
What are the Fourteen Points? (including League of Nations)