Gilded Age
This industrialist built the Standard Oil Company and became one of the richest men in American history through horizontal integration.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This president became known as a “trust buster” and promoted the Square Deal while expanding national parks and conservation efforts.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
The explosion of this U.S. battleship in Havana Harbor helped spark the Spanish-American War in 1898.
What is the USS Maine?
This business leader dominated the steel industry using vertical integration and founded the Carnegie Steel Company.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This belief held that the United States had a duty to spread its culture and democracy to other nations.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Passed in 1890, this law aimed to break up monopolies and limit the power of large trusts.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
During the Great Depression, this president created programs like the Social Security Act and the Works Progress Administration.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This policy issued by President Theodore Roosevelt stated that the United States could intervene in Latin American countries to maintain stability.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
This activist founded the National Organization for Women and advocated for the Equal Rights Amendment.
Who is Betty Friedan?
This term describes a severe economic downturn with high unemployment and declining production.
What is a Depression?
When you take control of every aspect of the production and sale of a product.
Vertical Integration
This president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
After the Spanish-American War, the United States acquired this island territory in the Caribbean, which remains a U.S. territory today.
What is Puerto Rico?
He is one of the founding members of the NAACP and felt that African Americans had waited long enough and should demand equality now.
Who is W. E. B. DuBois?
This method of protest uses peaceful resistance rather than violence to achieve social or political change.
What is Nonviolent Resistance?
This is the absence of government regulation on business.
What is Laissez-faire?
This president challenged the Soviet Union to “tear down this wall” during a speech in West Berlin in 1987.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This U.S. policy promoted equal trading rights for all nations in China and tried to prevent any single country from controlling Chinese trade.
What is the Open Door Policy?
This U.S. senator led a campaign claiming many Americans were communists, starting a period known as the Red Scare of the 1950s.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This term refers to the right to vote in elections.
What is Suffrage?
This political reform movement fought corruption and the power of political machines during the late 1800s.
Who were the Progressive Movement?
n 2008, this leader became the first African American elected President of the United States.
Who is Barack Obama?
The four MAIN causes of World War I.
What are Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism?
This activist refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, helping spark the modern Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This policy aimed to stop the spread of communism around the world during the Cold War.
What is Containment?