Gilded Age
This development allowed factories to be lit and operate twenty-four hours a day and also illuminated buildings, streets, and neighborhoods across the United States
What is the electric light bulb?
It's construction was completed at Promontory, Utah
What is the transcontinental railroad?
The Meat Inspection Act was passed after Theodore Roosevelt read The Jungle by this author
Who is Upton Sinclair?
This "fake news" created sensationalized stories to promote a war with Spain in the United States
When the Zimmerman Telegram was published in the newspapers, American public opinion swelled to support war against this country
What is Germany?
REQUIRES TWO ANSWERS: The steel industry was controlled by this industrialist, and had this as it's largest customer
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
What is the railroads?
Workers from this country were paid approximately $28-$35 per month (compared to $50 European workers earned) to do the very dangerous work of blasting and laying railroad ties over the treacherous terrain of the high Sierras while building the transcontinental railroad.
What is China?
Jane Addams played a huge role in improving the lives of the urban poor, especially immigrant women and children who were forced by circumstances to work and live in dangerous and unhealthy conditions by creating this settlement house
What is Hull House?
Spreading Christianity and Democracy, economic expansion, gaining land and resources are all arguments for what?
What is imperialism?
By early 1915, Germany decided to expand attacks from strictly Allied warships to also include any commercial ships belonging to both belligerent and neutral nations, referred to as this
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
After the Civil War, new immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe started coming to the U.S. bringing one of these two oppressed religions
What is Catholic or Jewish?
The ability of Plains Indians to migrate with the buffalo herd was limited as more farmers sectioned off their land with this invention
What is barbed wire?
Widespread violence, including lynching, against Blacks led to the formation of this organization in 1909 by W.E.B. Du Bois
What is the NAACP?
One reason the Panama Canal was necessary is because the United States needed to protect its new holdings in this location
What is the Pacific Ocean?
He was arrested after making a series of speeches against the war urging American men not to fight in violation of the Espionage Act
Who is Eugene Debs?
The American Federation of Labor only included this type of worker, giving the unions demands more credibility with employers
What is skilled worker?
The Plains Indians’ resistance to western expansion of the United States ended with this event
What is the Battle at Wounded Knee?
This muckraker wrote articles that told how Rockefeller used his business methods to destroy independent oilmen in Pennsylvania in order to create an oil monopoly
Who is Ida Tarbell?
What three territories did the US acquire after the Spanish-American War?
What is the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam?
The Treaty of Versailles was not ratified by the U.S. because isolationists in the Senate believed that by joining this peacekeeping organization, the United States would be obligated to get involved in future European conflicts
What is the League of Nations?
This is a technique used by labor unions to gain benefits for employees where negotiations are done to benefit the WHOLE GROUP; "everyone gets this pay; everyone gets these hours, etc."
What is collective bargaining?
The Lakota battled the U.S. Army for rights to their land at the Battle of Little Bighorn, were exiled to Canada, and then returned to the U.S. to settle on a reservation under the leadership of this warrior
Who is Sitting Bull?
The 17th amendment put power in the hands of the citizens by allowing for this
What is direct election of senators?
This stated that the Europeans were not welcome in the Caribbean region and the U.S. would oversee the collection of any national debts owed by Latin American nations to Europeans
What is the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?
During WW1 the government created this government agency to oversee factory production during the war.
What is the War Industries Board?