WWI & Foreign Policy
This policy kept the US out of foreign conflicts before shifting toward intervention
What is isolationism?
This muckraker exposed abuses in the meatpacking industry.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
The government followed this hands-off policy that helped businesses grow in the late 1800s.
What is laissez-faire?
This act divided tribal lands into individual plots to encourage Native assimilation.
What is the Dawes Act?
This government action helped railroad companies build more tracks by giving them land and money.
What are land grants and loans?
The explosion of this ship helped spark the Spanish-American War.
What is the USS Maine?
Ida Tarbell is known for exposing unfair practices by this oil company.
What is Standard Oil?
These government actions protected American businesses by taxing imported goods
What are protective tariffs?
Native American children were sent to these to force them to adopt white culture
What are boarding schools?
This 1862 law gave free land to settlers who lived on and improved it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
This message from Germany to Mexico helped push the US to enter WWI.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This movement aimed to fix problems caused by industrialization and urbanization.
What is the Progressive Movement?
This law was passed to break up monopolies and trusts.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
This was a common Native American response to government assimilation policies.
What is resistance or efforts to preserve culture?
The rapid building of railroads caused this effect on Native American lands and culture.
What is disruption of Native lands and way of life?
This organization was created after WWI to promote peace but failed to prevent future wars.
What is the League of Nations?
Jacob Riis is famous for documenting this aspect of city life.
What are poor living conditions?
This major company was a key target of early anti-trust efforts.
What is Standard Oil?
The reservation system was part of this broader government policy toward Native Americans.
What is assimilation?
Name one of the new booming industries in the late 1800s besides railroads.
What is steel (or oil or textiles)?
These controversial laws punished anti-war speech during WWI.
What are the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
Progressives wanted reforms in politics, society, and this economic area
What is business or economy?
Labor unions primarily fought for better pay, hours, and this.
What are working conditions?
The Dawes Act aimed to replace this form of land ownership with private property.
What is communal or tribal land ownership?
This economic philosophy justified monopolies by saying only the strongest business
What is Social Darwinism?