Gilded Age
A company that puts competitors out of business.
What is a monopoly?
Investigative journalists who highlighted problems in society.
Who are muckrakers?
Faked being insane to document mistreatment at insane asylums.
Who is Nellie Bly?
When one country is absorbed into another.
What is annexation?
The name of the ship that Americans claimed the Spanish destroyed.
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
The immigration centers on the East coast and the West coast, respectively.
What is Ellis Island and Angel Island?
The banning of alcohol.
What is prohibition?
Conservationist who believed nature should be left completely untouched.
Who is John Muir?
The belief in the need to "civilize" non-white nations.
What is the White Man's Burden?
The type of warfare the Filipino Rebels used to fight Americans in the Philippine-American War.
What is guerilla warfare?
A community of similar immigrants.
What is an ethnic enclave?
Ensured fairness for workers, consumers, and big businesses.
What is the Square Deal?
Advocated for gradual change among African-Americans.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
A policy of seeking political, economic, or military control over other countries.
What is imperialism?
Journalism that was used to highlight the "cruelty" of the Spanish towards the Cubans.
What is Yellow Journalism?
Immigrants who mostly came from Southeast Europe.
Who are new immigrants?
The belief that a woman's place is at home, not in the workforce.
What is the Cult of Domesticity?
Wrote the Shame of Cities.
Who is Lincoln Steffens?
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Workers suffered from this disease when constructing the Panama Canal.
What is malaria?
The further development of cities.
What is urbanization?
Using and knowledge and reason to find practical solutions to problems.
What is pragmatism?
Took photos of the problems of rapid urbanization.
Who is Jacob Riis?
When several other countries are under the control of a more powerful nation.
What is an empire?
The ruler of Hawaiin that American plantation owners overthrew (Note: Pronunciation needs to be close enough to earn points).
Who is Queen Liliuokalani?