Gilded Age & Progressive Era
This group of immigrants moved to the U.S. seeking jobs that required little to no specialization.
Who are Chinese immigrants?
This act provided land incentives for pioneers willing to settle in the West.
What is the Homestead Act?
These islands served as a crucial refueling station for American ships.
What are the Hawaiian Islands?
These Southern laws aimed to enforce segregation and limit equality for African Americans.
These Southern laws aimed to enforce segregation and limit equality for African Americans.
This President led the United States into World War I.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This law aimed to prevent anti-competitive practices but was ineffective due to vague language and poor enforcement.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Discovered during the westward expansion, this resource drove population growth in the Western United States.
What are gold and silver?
This agreement ended the Spanish-American War and granted the U.S. territories like Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This phenomenon caused mass migration to urban areas as factories began using assembly lines.
What is mass production?
Among the reasons for U.S. involvement in World War I were unrestricted submarine warfare and this infamous communication.
What is the Zimmerman telegram?
These measures were designed to deny civil rights to African Americans but were opposed by the 14th Amendment and the NAACP.
What are the Grandfather Clause and Jim Crow Laws?
This major railroad project caused significant loss of land and resources for Native American communities.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
This policy ensured that all nations could trade with China without any one nation dominating.
What is the Open Door Policy?
During the Women's Rights Movement, this argument emphasized that women, as citizens, should influence public policy equally.
What is the suffragette argument for equality?
The failure of this international organization was due to the U.S. refusing to join.
What is the League of Nations?
This commission was created to eliminate fraudulent advertising and safeguard consumers.
What is the Federal Trade Commission?
This industry created jobs and boosted the western economy after the Civil War.
What is the cattle industry?
After the Spanish-American War, this replaced Spanish rule in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines with U.S. control.
What is U.S. imperialism?
The efforts of reformers like Ida B. Wells and W.E.B. Du Bois were hindered due to this societal issue.
What is racism?
This major migration occurred as African Americans sought factory jobs in the North during World War I.
What is the Great Migration?
The push for reforms in infrastructure, public health, and regulation stemmed from this major issue during urban industrialization.
What is the lack of city services?
This philosophy justified the expansion of the cattle industry as demand and transportation increased.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This controversial theory, introduced by Herbert Spencer, shaped American foreign policy at the turn of the century.
What is Social Darwinism?
Early 1900s suffrage movements sought these three key rights for women.
What are voting, property ownership, and political equality?
President Wilson expressed regret after this decision by the U.S. Senate following World War I.
What is the rejection of the League of Nations?