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?
Trench warfare is a fighting style used in
What is World War I?
Freedom of Religion press petition and speech
1st Amendment
Name 2 ways to gain public attention for a cause
What are protests, petitions, rallies, assemblies, marches, parades...?
What is a push factor?
What is a Pull Factor?
1. PUSH:
Escaping famine, war, corrupt government
2. PULL:
Going somewhere for better opportunity, to be near family
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?
High levels of military enlistment
Active recruitment of women into the defense industry
High levels of industrial production
What is the World War II
The right to vote was changed from 21 to 18
26th Amendment
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?
Name three examples of the Big Stick Policy
1. The Pananma Canal
2. The U.S. Sent Troops to the Caribbean Countries
3. The Great White Fleet sailed around the world
Direct election of senators
What is the 17th Amendment?
Deadliest animal in the world
What is the mosquito?
The government is "hands off" business
What is Laissez-Faire?
Civil Service Reforms were passed to fix problems that were caused by
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?
Powers guaranteed to the states
10th Amendment
Ocean where Guam and the Philippines are
What is the Pacific Ocean?
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
'the spark' that started World War 1
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Unreasonable searches and seizures without a warrant
4th Amendment
Two reasons the US entered WWI
What are- 1. Unrestricted Submarine Warfare/Sinking of the Lusitania
2. Zimmerman Telegram