Industrialization
An invention by Alexander Graham Bell that changed how people communicate
What is the telephone?
A push vs a pull factor in immigration
What are the reasons that pushed people to leave a place (famine, war, lack of opportunity) and those that pulled people to a new place (stability, jobs, ample resources) called?
The term 'the Gilded Age'
What is the name for the era when first started booming but the working poor suffered, 'gilded' referring to a thin layer of gold over a cheaper material?
The influence of one nation over weaker ones
What is imperialism?
The M.A.I.N. causes of the war
What are Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism?
John D. Rockefeller
Who is the founder of Standard Oil and one of the most famous robber barons/captains of industry of the Gilded Age?
How industrialization and urbanization are linked
What is the relationship between the economic shift from agriculture to manufacturing and the cities where most of those factories were established?
This practice, while it was legal, led to many a poor child's injury or death
What is child labor?
The war in which the US gained control of Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines
What is the Spanish-American War?
How militarism increases the probability of war
What is boosting investment in one's army because one sees a rival boosting their own military?
The Bessemer process
What is a method for converting iron to a stronger more durable and yet lighter metal (steel) that allowed skyscrapers and other new technologies to flourish?
Most immigrants at the turn of the century came from these countries
What are Germany, Ireland, Italy, Russia?
These state laws forced companies to pay employees an agreed-upon least amount
What are state minimum wage laws?
When the US claimed this island, which was a perfect halfway point between America and Asia, as its own
What is the annexation of Hawaii?
When two or more countries join forces to defend each other as allies against a common enemy
What is an alliance?
They allowed just about every industry to move products and natural resources cross-country, making them crucial to the growth of economy
What are railroads?
The Potato Famine
What was a main push factor for Irish immigrants?
Unions organized workers to demand these two things from employers
What is better pay and safer working conditions?
This gargantuan engineering project might have been called the Colombian Canal had Teddy Roosevelt gotten his way
Identifying with one's own nation and supporting its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of anyone considered "the other"
What is nationalism?
This manufacturing method pioneered by Henry Ford involved unskilled workers performing repetitive tasks to produce goods faster and cheaper
What is the assembly line?
Jacob Riis's photography collection How the Other Half Lives
What was a book published to show the upper classes how the working poor in their factories, many of whom were immigrants, lived?
The Sherman Antitrust Act was passed to stop companies or groups of companies from becoming one of these
What is a monopoly?
Humanitarianism aka White Man's Burden
What was one (racist) excuse wealthy nations made for imperialistic acts towards weaker countries?
This country remained neutral for much of WWI, until it finally joined the Allies in 1917