LT #1:
U.S. Map
U.S. Map
This U.S. State is an island-chain located in the Pacific Ocean.
What is Hawaii?
Where is Hawaii?
This belief held that Americans were destined to expand across the North American continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This method speeds up production by having each worker perform one specific task.
What is the assembly line?
This businessman founded Standard Oil and became one of the wealthiest people in America.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Who is Rockefeller?
This term means extending a country's power over other countries through political, military, or economic means.
What is Imperialism?
This U.S. State is a peninsula located in in the South-East of the U.S.
What is Florida?
Where is Florida?
This new form of transportation physically connected the East and West coasts starting in 1869.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This immigration law targeted and excluded a single race from citizenship starting in 1882.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This novel described the terrible working conditions in the meat packing factories of Chicago.
What is "The Jungle"?
This American ship exploded in Havana Harbor in Cuba in 1898.
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
This region is where millions of American Buffalo lived before the 1870s.
What is the Great Plains?
Where is the Great Plains?
This communication device allowed messages to be sent across long distances almost instantly.
What is the Telegraph?
What are Telegrams?
This term describes the movement of people from rural areas into cities.
What is Urbanization?
This term referred to business leaders who used shady business practices and created monopolies.
What are Robber Barons?
What is Robber Barons?
This canal connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through Central America.
What is the Panama Canal?
One of the largest River in the U.S. empties past the city of New Orleans into the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi River?
Where is the Mississippi River?
This 1862 law encouraged western settlement by granting 120 acres to settlers who met certain requirements.
What is the Homestead Act?
This term describes the process of producing goods in large quantities using machines.
What is mass production?
What is industrialization?
This strategy involves controlling multiple stages of production and distribution, from raw materials to the finished product.
What is Vertical Integration?
This type of reporting used exaggerated or misleading stories to attract readers and increase anger toward Spain.
What is Yellow Journalism?
This Mountain Range runs to the East of the 13 original U.S. Colonies.
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
Where are the Appalachian Mountains?
The Indian Removal Act led to this forced march during the 1830s.
What is the Trail of Tears?
These overcrowded and often unsanitary housing units were common in urban areas.
What are tenements?
This 1892 Pennsylvania steel strike involved factory workers, company guards, and a violent outcome.
What is the Homestead Steel Strike?
These three countries became formal U.S. territories as a result of the Spanish-American War.
What are Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines?