Second Industrial Revolution
This development allowed factories to produce goods faster and cheaper than before, accelerating industrial growth.
What are new technologies and mechanization?
Immigrants often clustered in neighborhoods where they could hear familiar languages and access familiar foods and services.
What are ethnic neighborhoods?
This was a major reason the United States sought overseas territories:
What is economic expansion or new markets?
Before 1917, the U.S. avoided joining WWI largely because citizens disagreed on which side to support.
What is neutrality?
This belief held that the government should step in to solve the social and economic problems caused by industrialization.
Reformers’ belief that government should take action to fix problems
This industrial process lowered the cost of building railroads, bridges, and skyscrapers by making metal stronger and cheaper.
What is the Bessemer process?
Immigrants from Germany, Ireland, and Scandinavia are best classified as this group.
Who are Old Immigrants?
Control of this Pacific island chain gave the U.S. both a naval base and access to Asian trade routes.
What is Hawaii?
Germany’s use of this naval tactic directly threatened American lives and trade.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
This reform reduced political corruption by protecting voter privacy.
What is the secret ballot?
This belief argued that wealthy individuals had a responsibility to improve society rather than keep all profits.
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
Many Americans viewed immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe as unfit largely because they were seen as culturally different.
Who are New Immigrants?
Sensational headlines blaming Spain helped push the U.S. toward war through this type of reporting.
What is yellow journalism?
This secret message promised Mexico U.S. territory in exchange for military support against the United States.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
Journalists who exposed unsafe food practices and monopolies were known by this term.
Who are muckrakers?
A city with overcrowded housing and poor sanitation is most directly linked to this historical trend.
What is rapid industrialization and urban growth?
Factory jobs concentrated in cities led to this major population shift in the late 1800s.
What is urbanization?
The destruction of this American battleship increased public demand for war with Spain.
What is the USS Maine?
WWI is considered “modern” largely because of these battlefield innovations.
What are machine guns, poison gas, tanks, and airplanes?
This Progressive goal focused on protecting workers and consumers rather than business owners.
What is social reform?
Which innovation most transformed how Americans lived after dark and reshaped work schedules?
What is the electric light bulb?
African Americans leaving the South to escape racial violence and find jobs participated in this movement.
What is the Great Migration?
Critics of imperialism argued it conflicted with American ideals like consent of the governed.
What is anti-imperialism?
American troops helped end trench warfare by strengthening this side of the conflict.
Who are the Allied Powers?
Progressive reforms attempted to fix problems created by overcrowded cities, unsafe factories, and corruption caused by this earlier development.
What is industrialization?