Migration
Spanish speaking neighborhoods in a town..
Barrios
One who organizes, manages, and asumes the risks of a business or enterprise.
Entrepreneur
Using money to gain influence power
Dollar Diplomacy
This president belived in this statement for his foreign policy. "Speak softly and carry a big stick."
President Theodore Roosevelt
The spreading of ideas about an institution or individual for the purpose of influencing opinion.
Propaganda
A name given to Great Plains Farmers
Sodbuster
The total value of goods and services produced sby a country during a year.
Gross National Product (GNP)
A nation that is under control and protection of another nation.
Protectorate
He was perhaps the most notoriously corrupt railroad owner.
Jay Gould
This was the alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.
The Triple Alliance
This was the phrase used after gold was discovered on Colorado in 1858.
Pikes Peak or Bust
An agreement in which a company agrees to hire only union members.
Closed Shops
Sensational, exaggerated journalism
Yellow journalism
Tis Lieutenant Colonel underestimate his opponent at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
George Armstrong Custer
The assassination of this husband and wife we trigger World War I.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie of Austria-Hungary.
This type of mining involves spraying high pressure water at sides of hills or mountains where they were mining.
Hydraulic mining
Hostility toward immigrants.
Nativism
She was the first, and last, queen of Hawaii.
Queen Liliuokalani
During the Battle of the Argonne forest, he would take command of his plattoon and capture a heavily fortified hill, capturing 132 Germans. He recieved the Medal of Honor and the French Croix de Guerre.
Alvin York
A temporary agreement to end fighting
Armistice
Economic policy that government should interfere as little as possible in a nation's economy.
Laissez-faire
This African American inventor, developed the Synchronous Multiplex Railway Telegraph in the 1880s. This enabled trains to communicate with stations along thelines and with other trains.
Granville T. Woods
These were the two corporations that would build the transcontinental railroad.
The Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads.
In 1859 he staked a claim in Virginia City. Hel later sold his claim for thousands of dollars, not realizing that the sticky blue clay that made mining difficult was actually nearly pure silver ore.
Henry Comstock
What date and time did the fighting stop for World War 1?
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, 1918.