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Immigrant processing center located on an island on the West Coast, most of these immigrants came from Asia
What is Angel Island?
Completed in 1869 and connected the East and West coasts in Promontory, Utah
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Author of the Jungle that brought attention to the unsanitary conditions of the meat packing industry
Who is Upton Sinclair
What is the sinking of the USS Maine?
A major shift in American population from North to South, mostly Black American's attempting to escape Jim Crow violence and sharecropping
What is the Great Migration?
Immigrant processing center located on island on the East Coast, most immigrants came from Europe
What is Ellis Island?
One of the main groups of immigrants that worked on the Western half of the Transcontinental Railroad were from this country
What is China?
Progressive era reformer who helped to educate the immigrant working class
Who is Jane Addams?
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
A law created during WWI that implemented penalties for spying, sabotaging, and obstructing war efforts
What is the Espionage Act?
Founded the Standard Oil Company. He used vertical integration to monopolize the oil industry
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Massacre of the unarmed Sioux tribe ended the Native American resistance to Westward migration
What is Wounded Knee?
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
When countries gain power by taking over other countries or territories
What is Imperialism?
An international organization following WWI, consisted of European nations, created to maintain world peace
What is the League of Nations?
Created in order to reduce competition and control prices in a market
What is a monopoly?
Invention that restricted the Plains tribes from being able to roam freely out West
What is barbed wire?
Investigative journalists who exposed the abuses and corruption of big businesses and corporations
What is a muckracker?
Built to allow US ships to travel back and forth between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans without going around South America
What is the Panama Canal?
A Socialist figure sentenced to prison for violating the Espionage Act, was urging citizens not to join the war effort
Who is Eugene Debbs?
Samuel Gompers founded this labor union to organize skilled workers to fight against abuse by their employers
What is the American Federation of Labor?
Was discovered out West that caused a mass group of people to move to the Pacific Coast
What is gold?
Calls for the direct election of Senators by the people
What is the Seventeenth Amendment?
Fought in Cuba and the Philippines between the US and Spain
What is the Spanish American War?
A document of points that were used during peace negotiations at the Treaty of Versailles
What are Wilson's Fourteen Points?