Industrialization
Demands for lower costs at his steel plant pushed workers for low pay in dangerous conditions.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
the growth of cities
What is urbanization?
After reading this novel Teddy Roosevelt responded by creating the Pure Food and Drug Act.
What is the Jungle?
The incident were a U.S. warship mysteriously exploded and sank in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, on February 15, 1898.
What was the sinking of the USS Maine?
a British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915.
What was the Lusitania?
The process of removing impurities from iron to create steel.
What is the Bessemer Process?
The U.S. immigration center that was located on the East Coast near the Statue of Liberty.
What is Ellis Island?
This political party was created from the Progressive wing of the Republican Party.
What was the Bull Moose party?
She was the last ruler of her country before it was annexed by the United States.
Who was Queen Liliuokalani?
This telegram was intercepted by British intelligence. The telegram angered the American public because Germany wanted Mexico to enter the war against the United States.
What was the Zimmerman Note?
having complete control in the marketplace, without any outside competition.
What is a monopoly?
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Reconstruction Era officially ended under this president.
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?
Were journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of business and public life in mass circulation magazines during the early 20th century.
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to create a League of Nations.
What was Wilson's 14th point?
Originally was a candidate for the populist party. He would run for President 4 times, but never win election.
Who was William Jennings Bryan?
Is the economic and social philosophy holding that a system of unrestrained competition will ensure the survival of the fittest.
What is Social Darwinism?
a 1907-1908 agreement between the U.S. and Japanese governments to limit Japanese immigration to the United States.
What was the Gentlemen's Agreement?
African American educator and civil rights leader; he was born into slavery and later became head of the Tuskegee Institute for career training for African Americans.
Who was Booker T. Washington?
the protection of merchant ships from U-boat--German submarine--attacks by having the ships travel in large groups escorted by warships.
What was the convoy system?
Provided universal suffrage in the United States, meaning it could not be denied because of gender.
What was the 19th Amendment?
a law, enacted in 1887, that reestablished the federal government's right to supervise railroad activities and created a five-member interstate Commerce Commission to do so.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
American journalist and publisher of the New York Morning Journal and San Francisco Examiner; he was famous for including exaggerated stories about personal scandals
Who was William Randolph Hearst?
a law enacted in 1906 to halt the sale of contaminated foods and drugs and to ensure truth in labeling.
What was the Pure Food and Drug Act?
a truce, or agreement to end an armed conflict.
What was armistice?
the large-scale movement of African Americans from the South to northern cities in the early 20th century.
What was the Great Migration?