Unit 1-3 Review

Gilded Age

100

Big businesses that controlled all parts of an industry

What is a monopoly?

200

Escaping famine, war, corrupt government 

What is a push factor?

300

People moved from rural to urban areas in order to look for jobs in cities

What is urbanization?

400

The government is "hands off" business

What is Laissez-Faire?

500

Forced Native Americans to become individualized, and Americanized

What is the Dawes Act?

Progressive Era

100

Created by John Muir & Theodore Roosevelt to preserve the natural resources of the United States

What is the National Parks Service?

200

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle led the government to pass these two regulations

What are the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act?

300

This legislation establish a tax based on income

What is the 16th Amendment?

400

Civil Service Reforms were passed to fix problems that were caused by

What are corrupt governments/the spoils system?

500

Name 2 reformers & describe their impact

Upton Sinclair- exposed the food industry & led to regulations like the Pure Food & Drug Act

Susan B. Anthony- helped raise awareness for women's suffrage, which eventually led to the 19th amendment

Jane Addams- created settlement houses (Hull House) that helped immigrants transition to life in American cities

Ida B. Wells- worked with the NAACP to pass anti-lynching laws

W.E.B. DuBois- co-founder of the NAACP to help African American citizens gain equal rights

World Powers Era

100

Trench warfare is a fighting style used in

What is World War I?

200

Gaining overseas markets, having more military bases, and expanding trade, are all results from what war

What is the Spanish-American War

300

3 territories the U.S. gained after the Spanish-American War

What are the Philippines, Guam, & Puerto Rico?

400

The Roosevelt Corollary, which stated the U.S. would be the international police power of the Western Hemisphere, is also known as...

What is the Big Stick Policy?

500

'the spark' that started World War 1

What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?

Vocab

100

Get rid of alcohol

What is prohibition?

200

The right to vote

What is suffrage?

300

Direct election of senators

What is the 17th Amendment?

400

Efforts of one nation to colonize other parts of the world using military, political, and economic influence

What is expansionism/imperialism?

500

Connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans & created a faster trading route

What is the Panama Canal?

Misc.

100

Name 2 ways to gain public attention for a cause

What are protests, petitions, rallies, assemblies, marches, parades...?

200

Process of making steel

What is the Bessemer Process?

300

Deadliest animal in the world

What is the mosquito?

400

Ocean where Guam and the Philippines are

What is the Pacific Ocean?

500

Two reasons the US entered WWI

What are- 1. Unrestricted Submarine Warfare/Sinking of the Lusitania

2. Zimmerman Telegram