Unit 1: Westward Expansion
This law broke up Native American Reservations and encouraged assimilation
What is the Dawes Act?
This industrialist struck it rich in the Oil industry with his company Standard Oil.
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
This constitutional amendment granted women suffrage
What is the 19th Amendment?
Who was Franz Ferdinand?
Racist, anti-immigrant group that regained popularity in the 1920s
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Impact of barbed wire in the West
It would help to end the era of the American Frontier, cowboys, and the near extinction of buffalo.
This invention, created by Thomas Edison revolutionized American society and industry
The lightbulb
These people exposed the corruption and poor conditions of Gilded Age life
What are muckrakers?
This form of foreign policy results from aggressive nationalism which often results in violence
What is jingoism?
This famous trial dealt with teaching evolution in public schools
What was the Scopes Trial?
Formerly enslaved who left the South for the West
Who were the exodusters?
This process was favored by Carnegie as a more efficient way to refine steel
What is the Bessemer process?
This progressive era voting reform allows citizens to create bills instead of lawmakers
What is an initiative?
This Communist revolution in Russia caused them to pull out of WWI.
What was the Bolshevik Revolution?
This high tariff passed by President Herbert Hoover worsened the great depression exponentially
Near overnight settlements made next to gold & silver mines
What are boomtowns?
This business model is achieved by buying out each mode of production (ex. Buying an iron mine, railroad, steel mill)
What is vertical integration?
This progressive era president sought to reform the atrocities of the Gilded Age with his Square Deal
Who was Teddy Roosevelt?
This future U.S. president led the Rough Riders, a volunteer army regiment in the Spanish-American War.
Who was Teddy Roosevelt?
What is overspeculation?
This act gave each American family 160 acres of land, which resulted in a mass migration to the Western Frontier.
What is the Homestead Act?
This political machine was led by Boss Tweed and was eventually struck down by cartoonist Thomas Nast
What was Tammany Hall?
This constitutional amendment allows for the direct election of U.S. Senators
What is the 17th amendment?
The Treaty of Versailles in 1918 outlines FIVE major conditions for Germany
(B)lame
(R)eparations
(A)rmy is tiny now
(T)erritories
(S)eparate from all alliances
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?