Gilded Age
This term described the merging of smaller railroad companies into large ones.
What is consolidation?
Carnegie used this strategy to control all steps of steel production.
What is vertical integration?
These investigative journalists exposed corruption to the public.
Who are muckrakers?
This volunteer cavalry unit, led by Roosevelt, charged up San Juan Hill.
Who are the Rough Riders?
This idea claimed the U.S. had a duty to expand across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Railroads created these to standardize scheduling across the country.
What are time zones?
Standard Oil used this strategy, buying up competing companies.
What is horizontal integration?
This Progressive reform allowed citizens to propose laws directly.
What is an initiative?
This U.S. battleship exploded in Cuba’s harbor.
What is the USS Maine?
Roosevelt added this corollary to justify U.S. “police power” in Latin America.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
This invention by Alexander Graham Bell transformed communication.
What is the telephone?
These special discounts were given by railroads to their biggest customers.
What are rebates?
The 17th Amendment changed this method of selecting U.S. Senators.
What is direct election by the people?
The U.S. gained these territories after winning the Spanish-American War.
What are Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines?
Roosevelt’s famous foreign policy slogan.
What is “Speak softly and carry a big stick”?
This process revolutionized steel production and helped expand Carnegie’s business.
What is the Bessemer Process?
This 1890 law attempted to limit monopolies but was weakly enforced.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This reformer believed in vocational training and gradual equality.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This amendment gave the U.S. the right to intervene in Cuba.
What is the Platt Amendment?
This letter insulted President McKinley and angered the American public.
What is the de Lome letter?
The term “Gilded Age” suggests that society was shiny on the outside but hiding this underneath.
What is widespread poverty and corruption?
Give one major labor conflict of the era and briefly summarize.
What is the Haymarket Riot / Homestead Strike / Pullman Strike?
This organization, founded by W.E.B. Du Bois, fought for civil rights.
What is the NAACP?
This form of sensationalized news helped push the U.S. toward war.
What is yellow journalism?
These two territories were annexed and later became U.S. states.
What are Hawaii and Alaska?