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100
The inventor of the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
100
The technique that made it faster and less expensive to produce steel.
What is the Bessemer process?
100
Why did the United States have a policy of unrestricted immigration during the late 1800s early 1900s?
What is needed many unskilled workers.
100
Two areas that the US controlled after the Spanish American War.
What is Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Philippines.
100
The main reason that the United States entered WW1.
Germany sank merchant ships such as the Lusitania.
200
Who controlled the steel industry in the United States? He also believed in the "gospel of wealth."
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
200
This type of capitalism believed that government should stay out of the economy.
What is laissez-faire capitalism?
200
Where did most immigrants live?
What is the city in tenements?
200
This was purchased from Russia for 7.2 million.
What is Alaska?
200
A general association of nations established at the end of WW1 to try to prevent future wars.
What is the League of Nations?
300
The inventor of the light bulb, movie projector and other inventions. Known as the "wizard of Menlo Park".
Who is Thomas Edison?
300
This was suggested by the United States to give all nations equal trading rights in China.
What is The Open Door Policy?
300
The names of the 2 immigration stations that most immigrants came through.
What is Angel Island, Ellis Island
300
He was president during the war.
Who is McKinley?
300
American president who said, "the world must be made safe for democracy," and that WW1 would be "the war to end all wars?"
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
400
Used vertical and horizontal integration to control the oil industry.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
400
This document, that was expanded by the Roosevelt Corollary, stated the Latin America was off limits to European colonization.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
400
Name 3 working conditions faced by many of the immigrants in the factories.
What is long hours, little pay, child labor, 6 day work week.
400
Name 3 reasons that countries engaged in imperialism.
What is new makets for goods, naval base, spread religion, etc.
400
His assassination was the short term cause of WW1.
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary?
500
He worked to improve working conditions. He was also the leader of the Knights of Labor.
Who is Terence V. Powderly?
500
This political party was founded in 1892 by farmers that supported the free coinage of silver, work reforms, immigration restrictions, and government ownership of railroads and telegraph and telephone systems. Later on some of their reform ideas would become law.
What is the Populist Party?
500
The name of the agreement that stated that Japanese children could go to school if Japan stopped sending unskilled workers.
What is the Gentlemen's Agreement?
500
The area we obtained from Cuba that we still have today.
What is Guantanmo Bay, Cuba?
500
What were the long term causes of WW1?
What is MAIN? militarism alliances imperialism nationalism