US Presidents
This president was the youngest to ever take office when his predecessor was assassinated.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
This is the term that refers to the movement of people to cities like New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago.
What is urbanization?
This is what "gilded" means.
What is something looks beautiful and golden on the outside but is rotted and corrupted on the inside?
This so-called "Splendid Little War," lasted 113 days.
What was the Spanish American War?
She built Hull House in the slums of Chicago where people could go to learn English, get child care, etc. She worked on child labor laws, a juvenile court system and was the first American woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize.
Who is Jane Addams?
He was shot and killed soon after he was elected president.
Who is James Garfield?
This is what Henry Ford is known for developing that made industrialization much more efficient.
What is the assembly line?
Carnegie, Rockefeller, JP Morgan, and Vanderbilt were examples of these, the most extraordinarily wealthy who carried immense power and political persuasion.
What were Robber Barons?
The Treaty of Paris gave the US these three territories after the Spanish American War.
What were the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico?
This 1913 amendment changed how Senators were elected to Congress from being chosen by the legislature to being elected by the people for six year terms.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This president lost the popular vote, but won the electoral vote.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
This is what Alexander Graham Bell invented that revolutionized American society.
What is the telephone?
Companies hired these people during the Gilded Age because they were able to pay them less and they were able to maneuver tiny parts in machines better.
Who were children?
On July 4th 1894, Queen Liliuokalani was imprisoned, and this leading US businessman proclaimed himself president of the Republic of Hawaii.
Who was Sanford B. Dole?
These three countries made up the Central Powers.
What were Germany, Austria, and Turkey?
The Spanish American War was fought while this man was president.
Who was William McKinley?
These were two new ways companies began luring customers in the industrial age.
What were through advertisements, department stores, and mail-in catalogs.
Immigrants from Europe came through this immigration center.
What is Ellis Island?
This is where America fought the Spanish American War, just 90 miles off the coast of Florida.
What is Cuba?
This ship was torpedoed by Germany. Because of this, 128 Americans were killed, and the US became much closer to joining the war.
What was the Lusitania?
The 21st President that set up the Civil Service Commission, making people take exams to get government jobs.
Who was Chester Arthur?
These are three of Thomas Edison's inventions.
What were the lightbulb, x-ray, Electronic vote recorder, Universal stock ticker, the phonograph, Motion pictures, and General Electricity
This tragedy led to the reforming of safety protocols in sweatshops and factories during the Gilded Age.
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
This is the man-made marvel that America completed in 1914 to open a waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What was the Panama Canal?
Four inventions that made WWI so deadly.
What were airplanes, machine guns, submarines, and poison gas?