Westward
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Expansion
This 1869 Transportation project connected the East & West Coasts
What is the Transcontinental Railroad
This business practice lowered production costs.
What is mass production?
This amendment created the direct election of senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
Americans first wanted this foreign policy.
What is neutrality?
Government agency that insures bank deposits.
What is the FDIC?
This group was displaced as settlers moved west.
Who are Native American tribes?
This inventor/business leader popularized the assembly line.
Who is Henry Ford?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
These agreements promised military support.
What are alliances?
Agency that regulates the stock market.
What is the SEC?
This law encouraged western settlement by giving away land.
What is the Homestead Act?
Critics said these companies reduced competition, they paid the senators to get what they wanted
What are monopolies?
Progressives wanted more government _____ of business.
What is regulation?
a type of combat in which opposing armies fight from deep networks of protective ditches dug into the ground
What is trench warfare?
Stock prices collapsed after this.
What is speculation?
Government policy aimed to absorb Native Americans into white society.
What is assimilation?
Journalists exposing corruption were called these.
Who are muckrakers?
This novel exposed meatpacking conditions.
What is The Jungle?
Main reason the U.S. entered WWI?
What is Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare and the Zimmermann Telegram?
This event moved the U.S. into WWII.
What is Pearl Harbor?
Long-term effect of reservations.
What is isolation, poverty, and loss of traditional ways of life?
This steel leader is often called a Captain of Industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Name one goal shared by the 16th–19th Amendments.
What is expanding democracy/accountability?
Wilson proposed these for lasting peace.
What are the Fourteen Points?
These taxes reduced world trade during the Depression.
What are retaliatory tariffs?