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He was the 26th President of the United States and is known for his leadership of the Rough Riders during the Spanish American War.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
Warfare that relies on machines powered by gasoline and diesel engines.
What is mechanized warfare?
Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers.
What is yellow journalism?
This was the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930's.
What is the Great Depression?
The belief that only the fittest survive in human, political, cultural, and economic struggles.
What is Social Darwinism?
He built a steel mill empire, US Steel.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This is an agreement to stop fighting, a truce
What is an armistice?
An economic system based on private ownership of capital.
What is capitalism?
The conflict between the United States and Spain, in which the US supported the Cubans' fight for independence.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This was the railroad connecting the west and east coasts of the continental US.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
He made his money from the shipping and railroad industries.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
This is a production method that breaks down a complex job into a series of smaller tasks.
What is an assembly line?
This is a strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country, and feeling that your country is superior to others.
The period of time after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.
What is Reconstruction?
This law passed by the US Congress in 1917 that required all men ages 21 to 30 to register for the military draft.
What is the Selective Service Act of 1917?
This inventor is best known for inventing the electric light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This is a policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, socially, and economically.
What is imperialism?
This type of economic system abolishes all private ownership.
What is Communism?
This event appalled the United States, and others, when a German U-Boat sank a passenger ship off the coast of Ireland at the start of World War 1.
What is the sinking of the Lusitania?
This was referred to as the AEF in WW1.
What is the American Expeditionary Force?
He was the president of Standard Oil and was America's first billionaire.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This is where a single entity controls the entire process of a product, from the raw materials to distribution.
What is vertical integration?
This economic theory advocates for government ownership of major industries but allows some private ownership of businesses.
What is socialism?
The sinking of this ship sparked the Spanish-American War when the reports were exaggerated in order to get public approval for the war.
What is the USS Maine?
He led the AEF for the Americans in WW1.
Who is John J. Pershing?