The Boom of Big Business!
Allowed a large quantity of items to be made in a short time
What is mass production?
Granted territories to the U.S., $20 million to Spain, and independence to Cuba
What is the Treaty of Paris of 1898?
Established the doctrine of “separate but equal”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act were passed because of this book.
What is The Jungle?
This piece of legislation required settlers to develop the property for a minimum of five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
The government’s “hands-off” approach to the economy
What is laissez-faire economics?
Used to show off U.S. naval technology and show its presence in the Pacific
What is the Great White Fleet?
Laws and restrictions meant to limit the rights of Black Americans
What are Jim Crow laws?
This muckraker’s book led to the eventually dismantling of Standard Oil
Who is Ida Tarbell?
The idea that it was the right of Americans to settle all the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
What is Manifest Destiny?
Exclusive control of an industry
What is a monopoly?
Made trading more efficient for merchants and allowed a U.S. military presence in Central America
What is the Panama Canal?
He was arrested for attempting to sit in a ‘whites-only’ train car
Who is Homer Plessy?
Two pieces of legislation aimed at ending trusts in the U.S.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act?
Freed Black Americans who moved to Kansas
Who are Exodusters?
An economic system where trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit
What is capitalism?
Decreased the power of the Hawaiian monarch and disenfranchised many Native Hawaiians
What is the Bayonet Constitution?
Ended Reconstruction, removed federal troops from the South, and made southern states promise to respect the rights and freedoms of Black Americans.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This muckraker showed readers how people lived in New York tenements
Who is Jacob Riis?
Free land and social equality are considered two of these.
What are motivations for moving west?
A business structure that allows a small group to make decisions to control an entire industry
What is a trust?
Stated the U.S. could “exercise international police power,” could intervene in economic relations in the Americas, and Europe had no right to intervene in the western hemisphere
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
Public access to all places regardless of race
What was the purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1875?
The piece of legislation created a commission to regulate the railroad industry.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
The government gave states money to create colleges focusing on agriculture and mechanics.
What is the Morrill Land Grant Act?