Early America
U.S separated from Great Britain. stated that the our government would be based on the consent of the governed and the will of the people.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Allowed for factories to stay open later. Perfected by Thomas Edison
What was the light bulb?
A term for when cities grow and can lead to problems like unsanitary conditions and overcroweded tenements (apartments)
What is urbanization?
Exposed the dirty conditions in the meat packing industry. Led to the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act
What was Upton Sinclair's the Jungle?
Helped make the United States a world power by allowing us to gain new colonies.
What was the Spanish American War?
Found on U.S currency promoting our freedom of religion
What is In God We Trust?
Allowed for mass production of stronger, cheaper steel and allowed for skyscrapers, railroads, and bridge construction
What was the bessemer process?
Organized groups that controlled political parties. Ran by bosses that bribed voters.
What is a political machine?
Journalists who expose social and political problems.
What is a muckraker?
Germany attacked U.S ships with U-Boats. Germany tried to get Mexico to invade the U.S. Germany invaded Belgium.
What were the causes of the U.S joining WWI?
Protects your rights when you are accused of a crime and stops the government from taking your land without paying you
What is the 5th Amendment?
Organization of workers that join together to protect workers from long hours, low wages, and bad working conditions
What is a labor union?
Regions where most immigrants came from in the 1890's
What is Eastern and Southern Europe?
wanted to conserve public land by creating National Parks. Adopted the Square Deal to address social and economic problems
Who was President Theodore Roosevelt?
prioritized peaceful negotiations but carried an unspoken threat of military force when necessary. Theodore Roosevelt used his Great White Fleet to enforce this.
What was the Big Stck Policy?
Latin for "out of many one" motto of the United States
What is e pluribus unum?
When one buisness dominates the supply of a particular good or service.
What is a trust (Monopoly)
Two things that helped settle the west by connecting the east and west. Led to national markets.
What was the Transcontinental Railroad?
Amendments that created an income tax, allowed people to vote for their senators, banned the sale of alcohol and allowed for women's suffrage?
What were the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Amendments?
greatly reduced travel time for commercial and military ships by providing them with a shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
What was the Panama Canal?
liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism, and laissez-faire
What is Tocqueville 5 values?
Two men who founded an oil company and a steel company that ended up becoming monopolies.
Who were Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller?
Helped settle the west by offering free land to farmers.
What was the Homestead Act?
Allowed for the people to create new laws, vote directly on issues, and remove elected officials.
What were the inititive, referendum, and recall?
blamed Germany for the war • required Germany to pay war reparations to the Allied Powers • demilitarized Germany and created a League of Nations but U.S doesnt join it.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?