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?
The belief in the need to "civilize" non-white nations.
What is the White Man's Burden?
The name of the ship that Americans claimed the Spanish destroyed.
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
The further development of cities.
What is urbanization?
The limiting of alcohol.
What is temperance?
Conservationist who believed nature should be left completely untouched.
Who is John Muir?
A policy of seeking political, economic, or military control over other countries.
What is imperialism?
Why America wanted to construct the Panama Canal.
What are issues with geography/trade?
A community of similar immigrants.
What is an ethnic enclave?
The banning of alcohol.
What is prohibition?
Advocated for gradual integration among African Americans.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Journalism that was used to highlight the "cruelty" of the Spanish towards the Cubans.
What is Yellow Journalism?
The immigration centers on the East coast and the West coast, respectively.
What is Ellis Island and Angel Island?
The belief that a woman's place is at home, not in the workforce.
What is the Cult of Domesticity?
Took photos of the problems of rapid urbanization.
Who is Jacob Riis?
When one country is absorbed into another.
What is annexation?
Workers suffered from this disease when constructing the Panama Canal.
What is malaria?
Hostility toward foreigners.
What is nativism?
Ensured fairness for workers and big businesses.
What is the Square Deal?
Advocated for immediate integration among African Americans.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
The belief that industrialized nations are superior to non-industrial ones.
What is Social Darwinism?
How much per acre Alaska was bought for.
What is $0.02 per acre?
Immigrants who mostly came from Southeast Europe.
Who are new immigrants?
Using knowledge and reason to find practical solutions to problems.
What is pragmatism?
Wrote the Shame of the Cities.
Who is Lincoln Steffens?
When several other countries are under the control of a more powerful nation.
What is an empire?
The ruler of Hawaii that American plantation owners overthrew (Note: Pronunciation needs to be close enough to earn points).
Who is Queen Liliuokalani?