Gilded Age
Big businesses that controlled all parts of an industry
What is a monopoly?
Created by John Muir & Theodore Roosevelt to preserve the natural resources of the United States
What is the National Parks Service?
What is the Spanish-American War
Get rid of alcohol
What is prohibition?
What was the theme for this years homecoming?
Magic
Escaping famine, war, corrupt government
What is a push factor?
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?
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
The right to vote
What is suffrage?
Process of making steel
What is the Bessemer Process?
People moved from rural to urban areas in order to look for jobs in cities
What is urbanization?
This legislation establish a tax based on income
What is the 16th Amendment?
3 territories the U.S. gained after the Spanish-American War
What are the Philippines, Guam, & Puerto Rico?
Direct election of senators
What is the 17th Amendment?
Ocean where Guam and the Philippines are
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The government is "hands off" business
What is Laissez-Faire?
What are corrupt governments/the spoils system?
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?
What is expansionism/imperialism?
What goes up and down but doesn't move?
What is a staircase?
Law that forced Native Americans to become individualized, and Americanized
What is the Dawes Act?
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
Two reasons the US entered WWI
What are- 1. Unrestricted Submarine Warfare/Sinking of the Lusitania
2. Zimmerman Telegram
Connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans & created a faster trading route
What is the Panama Canal?
How many points did the Lake Highlands Football team score against this past week against Pearce?
55