Industrial Age
Credited with inventing the telephone
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
Food, clothing, shelter, tools
What are uses for the Buffalo?
Social Worker who founded Hull House in Chicago, IL
These laws enforced segregation in the South
What are Jim Crow laws?
People who did not support American foreign expansion
Who were Anti-imperialists?
Created the assembly line for his automobile in Detroit Michigan
Who is Henry Ford?
Nickname given to people who had secretly slipped across the Oklahoma border
What is a Sooner?
This Constitutional amendment gave women the right to vote beginning in 1920
What is the 19th amendment?
Ways to keep former slaves from voting
What are poll taxes & literacy tests
U.S. Sec. of State John Hay negotiated a treaty w/ Colombia giving the U.S. control of a piece of land across Panama for 99 years; wanted to keep ships from making long journeys around South America
What is the Panama Canal?
Violent bloody clash in the streets of Chicago between police and labor workers on strike
What is the Haymarket Riot?
Life was difficult because they were forced to live a new way of life on land not fit for agriculture; native populations decreased
What is life on an Indian Reservation?
Fair and equal treatment to all people; Teddy Roosevelt’s promise to American people during 1904 election
What is the Square Deal?
Before they could rejoin the Union, the southern states had to ratify this amendment, which also abolished slavery in the U.S.
What is the 13th?
Powerful nations creating large empires by exercising economic and political control over weaker regions for raw materials and markets
What is Imperialism?
He was credited for light bulb, movie camera; many inventions
Who is Thomas Edison?
Called for shorter hours for workers and a national income tax
Who was the Populist Party?
Hurt both Taft and Roosevelt in 1912 presidential election
What was the Republican Party split?
Helped African Americans transition from slavery to freedom; established schools for freed African Americans
What was the Freedman's Bureau?
Became a U.S. protectorate after the U.S. defeated Spain in the Spanish American War
What is Cuba?
1870's innovation that allowed meat and produce to be transported more efficiently
What is the refrigerated rail car?
Union Pacific: began in Nebraska and extended West; hired African American and Irish workers; Central Pacific: started in California and worked eastward; hired Chinese
What was the Transcontinental Railroad?
Group of powerful companies working together; companies had too much control over the economy and government
What is a trust?
Stated that the president couldn’t remove government officials without Senate approval; led to president Johnson being impeached
Johnson Tenure of Office Act
U.S. claimed the right to intervene in Latin American affairs
What was the Roosevelt Corollary?