Gilded Age - Laws and Inventions
Gilded Age
Progressive Era & Groups
Imperialism & Era of Expansion
Imperialism & WWI
100
The invention of the Bessemer Process allowed for the mass producing of what material? This material made it possible to build the first skyscraper.
Steel
100
Why did millions of European immigrants move to the United States? What were they hoping to find?
What is freedom, jobs, or business opportunities?
100
The first major labor union in the United States. Fought to protect workers rights. Lost popularity after they were unfairly blamed for the Haymarket Riot.
Who are the Knights of Labor?
100
What is one impact of the Panama Canal?
What is increased trade or reduced travel time between the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean?
100
What is a consequence of imperialism or a country expanding?
What is hard to control?
200
What act/law encouraged western migration by giving settlers up to 160 acres of cheap land as long as they met one of the requirements - such as being at least 21 years old, being the head of the household, or citizen of the U.S.?
What is the Homestead Act?
200
Allowed resources to be transported quickly and led to rapid settlement and growth of towns in the West.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
200
What caused child labor to decrease?
What is Progressive Era reforms and changes to working conditions and laws?
200
Who advocated for overseas expansion and stressed the need for a strong navy?
Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan?
200
What are the main causes of WWI?
Hint: there are 4 MAIN causes.
What is Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism.
300
First U.S. law that restricted immigration. Showed Anti-Immigrant/Nativism views towards Asian immigrations.
What is the the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
300
Groups like Tammany Hall that controlled politics in American cities. They justified corruption by providing benefits or help to immigrants and the community.
What is Political Machine?
300
This gives citizens a more direct influence on lawmaking because they can bypass their state legislature by placing proposed laws on a ballot to be voted on by people.
What is the initiative?
300
This fruit company businessman overthrew the Hawaiian Queen which helped annex Hawaii to the United States.
Sandford B. Dole
300
What was the spark of WWI and led to Austro-Hungary declaring war on Serbia?
What is the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of A-H?
400
How did Thomas Edison's invention of the light bulb impact factories during the Gilded Age?
What is workers get to work at night so production increased and became more efficient?
400
What led to the idea of Americanization - the idea that people should learn to speak, dress, and act American?
What is increased immigration, specifically from Europe?
400
What was the goal of state level political reformers?
What is promote direct democracy or give the people more power, say, or control of the government?
400
How did the U.S. gain the territory of Puerto Rico?
What is it was ceded to the United States as a result of winning the Spanish-American War as written in Treaty of Paris?
400
These were used to lead troops across No Man's Land into enemy territory. They also helped break stalemates.
What is tanks?
500
Act that allowed the government to break up reservation land, steal that land from Native Americans tribes, and give it to individual Native Americans or Americans.
What is the Dawes Act?
500
The Carlisle Indian School led to the _________ of Native American children. It took away their culture and choice of religion, language, and dress.
What is assimilation?
500
Person who exposed the unsanitary conditions of the meat packing industry that led to legislation to be passed such as the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act?
Who is Upton Sinclair?
500
What type of diplomacy helped grant the U.S. permission to build the Panama Canal?
What is Big Stick Diplomacy?
500
Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace and to prevent future global conflicts.
What is 14 points?