Darwinism
The idea that humans should take over the evolutionary process by encouraging the survival of the fittest and weeding out the weak.
Eugenics
Preached that the world would end on Oct. 22, 1844
William Miller
The term for when one person or company gains control over an entire industry.
Monopoly
This Indian tribe became home to some of the richest people in the world when oil was discovered on their reservation. A series of murders followed.
Osage
The name of the peace agreement that ended World War I
The Treaty of Versailles
The term used for the idea that only the strong survive.
Natural Selection
These sisters claimed to communicate with the dead through "table rappings"
The Fox Sisters
By 1879, he controlled 90% of the oil refining in the world.
John F. Rockefeller
The year Canada became an independent country.
1867
The event that ignited World War I
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Social Darwinists often embrace this form of economics.
Laissez-faire Capitalism
He claimed to receive a visitation from the Angel Moroni, who directed him to some buried golden plates.
Joseph Smith
An investment banker who made US Steel the world's first billion dollar industry.
J. P. Morgan
This company was known for its mail order catalog.
Sears, Roebuck, and Co.
During this event, hundreds of thousands of southern Blacks moved north to work in the factories of cities of the industrial north.
The Great Migration
Thomas Malthus
A commune started by John Humphrey Noyes that practiced "free love" and "complex marriage." They also manufactured tableware.
The Oneida Community
A steam boat entrepreneur who consolidated the rail industry and became the nation's second richest man.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
An early 20th century movement that was convinced that government experts should be in charge of planning peoples lives.
Progressivism
The U.S. President during World War I
Woodrow Wilson
He wrote a biology textbook called The Wonders of Life that promoted racism and eugenics.
Ernst Haeckel
A Civil War captain who brought the Oneida Community to California and became the first Superior Court justice of Orange County
J. W. Towner
A massive oil discovery at this Texas location in 1901led America into the age of oil.
Spindletop
According to Mr. Johnson, this is the best idea Progressive government planners ever had.
The National Park System
The sinking of this ship hardened American attitudes toward Germany.
Lusitania