Gilded Age
What Railroad company started in Sacramento, CA and worked Eastward?
Central Pacific
What muckraker helps to pass the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act?
Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Jacob Riis, or Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair
What is the motive from imperialism in the following example? Option: Exploratory, Political, Ideological, Religious, or Economic
American missionaries taught the Hawaiian people about Christianity.
Religious
Which of the following options is NOT a reason that the United States gets involved in the Spanish-American War?
Imperialism, Alliances, Investments, Revolution
Alliances
What country is punished the harshest after WWI?
Germany
What type of integration buys all of the companies and resources related to their industry?
Vertical
What law breaks up the Standard Oil Company?
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
What is the motive from imperialism in the following example? Option: Exploratory, Political, Ideological, Religious, or Economic
The United States heavily invests in China. New jobs are provided and the economy in China is stimulated. Most of the profits from the surge in industry benefit the United States.
Economic
Which of the following is NOT a territory that the United States gained as a result of the Spanish-American War?
Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam, or Cuba
Cuba
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Which railroad company had to blast through the Sierra Nevada Mountains?
Central
Who wrote the book How the Other Half Lives?
Jacob Riis
What is the motive from imperialism in the following example? Option: Exploratory, Political, Ideological, Religious, or Economic
Country A finances the overthrow of the dictator of Country B, who is unfriendly to Country A. Country A only offers financial assistance, not military troops.
Politicial
What country does the Spanish-American War take place?
Cuba
What alliance was Germany apart of?
Central Powers or Allied Powers?
Central
Who invented the mechanical reaper?
Cyrus McCormick
What is the name of the book that Upton Sinclair writes about the Meat Packing Industry in Chicago?
The Jungle
What imperialistic policy says that the U.S. will only do business with countries that promote democracy?
Open Door, Dollar Diplomacy, Moral/ Mission, or Big Stick
Moral/ Mission
What are the two reasons that the U.S. is concerned about fighting in Cuba?
Close to the United States (Florida only 90 miles away) and Investments (sugar cane plantations)
Of all of Wilson's 14 points, which one is included in the Treaty of Versailles?
League of Nations, Freedom of the Seas, Self-determination of colonies, or End of secret alliances
What production method can turn scrap metal into steel?
Open-Hearth Method
What is the name of the law that allows citizens to petition to remove government officials?
Recall
What imperialistic policy encourages U.S. businesses to invest in Latin American countries?
What is the name of the military base that the United States gets in Cuba after the Spanish-American War?
Guantanamo Bay
George S. Patton was a U.S. commander of what new WWI weapon?
Tanks