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Westward Expansion
Industrialization
Immigration / Urbanization
Progressive Era
Imperialism
100
The belief of many Americans that it was the fate of the nation to expand across the nation.
What is Manifest Destiny
100
A company that controls nearly all the business of an industry
What is a monopoly
100
The entry point and processing center for European immigrants
What is Ellis Island
100
The nickname given to journalists and reformers who aimed at exposing corruption and other social problems of the cities in the late 1800s and early 1900s
What are muckrakers
100
Newspapers exaggeration of stories to sell more papers
What is yellow journalism
200
This contributed both to the settlement of the West and the growth of industry
What is the Transcontinental Railroad
200
The belief that certain businesses thrive while others succeed
What is Social Darwinism
200

Who monopolized the rail road industry in NY

Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt

200
This movement sought to ban the consumption and sale of alcohol in the U.S.
What is the Temperance Movement
200
Agreement which allowed the United States and all western nations and Japan to trade in Chine
What is the Open Door Policy
300
Confined Native Americans to small plots of land so they would not interfere with the U.S. settlement of the West
What is Reservation System
300
Organizations which brought workers together to fight for better wages and working conditions
What are labor unions
300

What were tenements 

Cheaply built and ran apartments that were used for the owner to get rich and entice immigrants with cheap shelter

300
This individual led to the movement to protect the public interests, regulate business, and protect the nation's natural resources
Who is Theodore Roosevelt
300
President Theodore Roosevelt's support of this project helped created a shorter route from the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans
What is the Panama Canal
400

Daily Double This 1862 law was created to promote the settlement of the land in the Western region of the United States.

What is the Homestead Act

400

Andrew Carneige and John D Rockefeller were called this_____ for ruthless practices

What is a Robber Baron

400
Americans who wanted to limit immigration to the United States
What are nativists
400
The corrupt and unjust practice of rewarding supporters with jobs used by many political machines in the cities
What is the spoils system / patronage
400

Daily triple  Also known as the "Big Stick Policy" it was an addition to the Monroe Doctrine which allowed the use of force to protect our interests in Latin America and promote law and order

What is the Roosevelt Corollary

500
The law designed to assimilate Native Americans into farmers
What is Dawes Act
500
The economic system of the U.S. which is based on private control of ownership and profit
What is capitalism
500

Port in San Francisco where migrants from Asia came through  

What is Angel Island

500

who was known to create the The Modern Presidency

Who is, Teddy Roosevelt

500
The need for raw materials, markets for trade, land for naval bases, and the desire to spread democracy throughout the world
What is imperialism