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Open Range ranching ended due to the introduction of this

new invention

Barbed Wire

Prospectors recovering gold on the surface was this type of

mining

Placer Mining

Deep earth mining usually financed by corporations was

called this

Quartz Mining

The worst massacre of Indians by US troops took place here

Sand Creek

This law broke up Indian reservations into small farms hoping to make Indians into

farmers – but actually helped destroy Indian culture

The Dawes Act

These are the factors of Industrialization

1. Natural Resources

2. Large workforce

3. Free Enterprise System

4. Role of Government

5. New Inventions

6. Railroads

A company that controls a single market is called this

A Monopoly

An organization owned by many people but treated by

law as if it were a single person is called this

A Corporation

Big business men who gained their wealth through

manipulation, bribery, and other ruthless methods were

called this

Robber Barons

The policy in which government keeps its hands off business by

having little to no regulation is called this

Laissez - Faire

Progressives believed this needed to play a bigger role in

solving society’s problems

Government

These were journalists who exposed social problems or

corrupt government

Muckrakers

The ability of citizens to propose legislation to be voted on by the public is called this

Initiative

Citizens can have a special election to remove a public official before their term of

office is up through this

Recall Election

This is when all citizens can vote on a special issue

Referendum

Mark Twain and Charles Warner coined the term “Gilded Age” which they meant was an age of this

Corruption

America was a rich country filled with opportunity….or was it?

Andrew Carnegie believed it was the responsibility of the wealthy to spend their money for the public

good in a policy called this

The Gospel of Wealth

Herbert Spencer came out with this idea that the

theory of survival of the fittest should be applied to

nation-states

Social Darwinism

He wrote stories about how poor people, through hard

work and virtuous character, could one day be rich

Rags-to-Riches

Horatio Alger

The area where writers, artists, and musicians lived during the

Gilded Age became known as this

Tin Pan Alley

One reason for the increasing tensions between European

powers prior to WWI was their intense pride in their homelands

called this

Nationalism

They were the Triple Entente

Great Britain, France, and Russia

These were the major reasons for the US entry

into WWI in 1917

Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

The Zimmerman Telegram

British Propaganda

Heavy loans to Allied nations

This law made it illegal to criticize the US

government during WWI

The Sedition Act

Throughout WWI, the Western Front was

characterized by this type of fighting

Trench Warfare

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These were the two railroads that made up the first

transcontinental railroad

Union Pacific and Central Pacific

The labor force of the Central Pacific railroad was mostly made

up of them

Chinese

The US government helped finance railroad construction

through these

Land Grants

This scandal was about railroad investors

overcharging for railroad construction work through a construction company they

also owned

Credit Mobilier

This was the only transcontinental railroad to be built without government

money

Great Northern

This labor union was not only one of the first

but also had female and minority members

Knights of Labor

The Knights of Labor lost thousands of members due

to this tragic event

The Haymarket Riot

In this, a person has to belong to a union before they can

even apply for a job

Closed Shop

This is when factory owners locked their doors and did not

let workers in

Lock-Out

These people were hired by factory owners to take the places of those workers

who were on strike

Strikebreakers

She was led a crusade to stop the practice of lynching

Ida B. Wells

He was a militant black leader who fought for civil

rights and helped found the national Association for the

Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

W. E. B. DuBois

This black leader called for separation from whites and

eventually encouraged blacks to move to Africa

Marcus Garvey

This Supreme Court Case established the policy of

“Separate but Equal”

Plessy v. Ferguson

He was viewed by many Americans as the “voice” of

African-Americans during the Harlem Renaissance

Langston Hughes

This sparked the beginning of the Spanish-American War in

1898

The sinking of the USS Maine

In 1903, the US negotiated with them for the right to land to build the Panama

Canal

Colombia

The US desire to conduct free trade in China was expressed

in this policy

The Open Door Policy

Because of the Platt Amendment, the US did NOT take possession of this after the Spanish-American War

Cuba

He gained fame for his work in organizing and co-leading

a volunteer cavalry unit called the Rough Riders in

1898

Theodore Roosevelt

She established Hull House, a settlement house used as a

model for those that followed

Jane Addams

He was the most infamous of all 19th century party bosses

William Marcy “Boss” Tweed

He led the Russian Bolshevik Party and made Russia a

communist state in the 1917 Revolution

Lenin

He was elected president in 1920 based on his platform of

“Normalcy”

Warren G. Harding

He introduced a new style of music called Jazz to Chicago

Louis Armstrong

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Great Depression

These were the causes of the Great Depression

1. Wealth Gap

2. Overproduction

3. Buying on Installment Plans

4. High Tariff (Hawley-Smoot Tariff)

5. Low Interest Rates (Federal Reserve)

During the Depression, why did US farmers destroy

crops?

To raise prices

What did buying stocks “on margin” mean?

Buyers only had to put 10% down with the rest borrowed from a bank or

stockbroker

In mostly Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and

South Dakota, poor farming practices coupled with drought and high winds

created this

The Dust Bowl

Many affected by the Dust Bowl such as the “Okies” (farmers from Oklahoma)

migrated here

California

President Roosevelt communicated with the American people using these radio broadcasts

Fireside Chats

To protect Americans’ bank deposits in the case of bank

closures, the New Deal created this program

FDIC

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

What sector of farming was actually hurt by the

policies of the New Deal’s Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)?

Sharecroppers

In this New Deal program, young men 18-25 were

hired to work on National Parks and other

government projects

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Created by the Second New Deal, this was, and is today,

the greatest entitlement program in US history

Social Security

He became the fascist dictator of Italy

Benito Mussolini

He took control of the Soviet Union (Communist Russia)

after the death of Lenin

Josef Stalin

He became the fascist dictator of Spain after it Civil

War in the 1930s

General Francisco Franco

He backed the military’s takeover of Japan making

it into a military dictatorship

Emperor Hirohito

He first became Chancellor, then

president, of Germany before becoming its

dictator

Adolf Hitler

They invaded Manchuria in 1931 seeking its raw

resources

Japan

Great Britain and France appeased Hitler by allowing him to take over this section

of Czechoslovakia in 1938

The Sudetenland

WWII in Europe officially began in 1939 when

Germany invaded here

Poland

Jewish businesses and synagogues were

vandalized and burned and Jewish citizens were attacked during this

Kristallnacht

The US was able to supply military material to Great

Britain, and later China and the Soviet Union, using this

program

Lend-Lease

In the late 1800s. Most immigrants to the US came from these two European

areas

Southern and Eastern Europe

What did farmers on the Great Plains face?

1. High winds

2. Locust plagues

3. Prairie fires

4. Drought

Most immigrants to the US from Europe were processed here

Ellis Island

Building safety codes were enacted after the this New York

tragedy

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Following WWI, many Americans were fearful of

revolution and radical political ideologies in a

period called this

The Red Scare

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The political / economic belief that government should own all

of industry and operate them for the benefit of the people is

called this

Socialism

The sector of the American economy that did NOT benefit

from the prosperity of the 1920s was this

Farming

Because the Supreme Court was stopping some of

President Roosevelt’s New Deal programs he proposed this change to the Supreme

Court

(Called “Court Packing”)

Change the number of justices from 9 to 15

This is a very aggressive and militaristic form of socialism

Fascism

Japan attacked here on December 7, 1941

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Gave all women in the US the right to vote

19th

Established the right of the government to tax

personal income

16th

Prohibited making, distributing, and the

consumption of alcohol

18th

Gave the right for the direct election of a state’s two

senators

17th

The Temperance Movement had great influence in the passage of

this amendment

18th

When a company owns all the businesses on

which it depends for its operation it is called this

Vertical Integration

When a corporation controls a market by owning all the

businesses of the same type it is called this

Horizontal Integration

Farmers initially organized in the Granger Movement and

later in the Alliance Movement

What political Party did they establish with their labor union

allies?

The Populist Party

They were the three major candidates for president in the

Election of 1912

William Howard Taft

Republican

Theodore Roosevelt

Bull Moose Party

Woodrow WilsonDemocrat

The government body established in 1887 to regulate business, especially railroads

The Interstate Commerce Commission

(ICC)