Like, you should totally remember me
I started the Standard Oil business and specialized in driving down prices to bankrupt my competition
John D. Rockefeller
Light Bulb
Which term is generally used for America's multi-cultural society that is united behind American principles and ideals?
Melting Pot
General Custer and the U.S. 7th Cavalry was surrounded by the Sioux and eventually killed at this famous battle
Little Bighorn
Which amendment finally allowed for women to vote?
19th Amendment
I took pictures of the horrible conditions immigrants lived in New York to generate public sympathy
Jacob Riis
Henry Ford is credited with creating this mass-producing device that revolutionized factories across America
Assembly Line
Andrew Carnegie used this method to acquire wealth - owning all the steps of production to avoid paying "middle man" costs
Vertical Integration
This event outraged Americans prior to WWI thanks to German unrestricted submarine warfare
Sinking of the Lusitania
Which document ends WWI, but ultimately fails for it's harsh treatment of Germany after the war?
Treaty of Versailles
I was an ex-general during the Spanish American War, became President, and was known as the "Trust-Buster" for helping break up monopolies
Theodore Roosevelt
Jane Addams was a pioneer in social work who helped immigrants by establishing....
Settlement Houses
The process of making steel more reliable, cheaper, and easier to manufacture is called what?
Bessemer Process
This politician ran in political machine in New York City for years, and is estimated to have embezzled millions of dollars (billions in today's money) for himself
If the voters of an elected official were unhappy with his/her performance, they could get enough signatures to trigger a ________ vote to them then fired.
Recall
She ran a number of news articles to expose the corrupt business dealings of John Rockefeller
Ida Tarbell
The book that Upton Sinclair wrote to expose the meatpacking industry was called what?
The Jungle
This Russian leader was eventually murdered by Lenin and the communist takeover in the Russian Revolution that caused Russia to leave WWI.
Czar Nicholas II
This person was murdered in Sarajevo, (in what is today Bosnia) and ultimately sparked the start of WWI
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The Government prevented free speech during a time of war in 1918, which became known as the...
Sedition Act of 1918
I drew a number of political cartoons to expose political corruption in the Tammany Hall political machine
Thomas Nast
This invention increased trade across the country, stabilized US time zones, and allowed for increased consumer travel
This amendment is responsible for the direct election by popular vote of US Senators
17th Amendment
In Washington D.C., you'll find the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) which regulates American businesses and was started by this President...
Woodrow Wilson
The United States ultimately refused to join this organization after World War I in fear in would obligate American involvement in future wars
League of Nations