US History-Sem2

The owner of Standard Oil big business

competitive struggles in which only the fittest race survives.

A labor union that represented only some workers who were white and skilled

required voters to pay a tax to vote

The Radical Republicans proposed the

Belief in hands-off government policy

A labor union that represented all workers, no matter their skin color or skill

states that any American citizen and a man has the right to vote in elections

The time period after the Civil War was called the

required voters to pass a reading test to vote

African American woman who fought for an anti-lynching law

a German submarine

T. Roosevelt's 1912 campaign slogan for President

The first-ever law that protected the rights of Americans from discrimination was the

laws that kept blacks and whites segregated, or apart.

Legal position or condition of a person, group, country, etc.

group that attacked large ranch owners by cutting holes in barbed-wire fences & burning houses

The policy by which strong nations extend control over weaker territories.

British cruise ship sunk by a U-boat

strict and racist rules that black people had to follow in the South

A Filipino freedom fighter

President of the United States when he was only 43 years old.

A freed slave need to learn how to read and so attend a school run by the

When the President is accused of breaking the law

He was born as a slave in 1865 and gave the Atlanta Exposition speech.

President Theodore Roosevelt’s program of reforms

Allowing people to choose their government leaders

Leader of Hawaii who resented the increasing power of the white planters

The action of workers negotiating for more pay from their bosses

Placed safety controls on foods and medicines.

He led the division of forestry in the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

A group of countries brought together to prevent war

became President after Abraham Lincoln was killed

required federal inspection of meat-processing plants.

Relating to or based on reason; reasonable.

Father of the National Parks Service

Secret message sent by Germany to Mexico that sparked U.S. entrance into WWI

aggressive nationalism that inflamed relations with Spain

In 1912, Progressives bolted from the Republican party and set up:

When a big business controls an entire industry

The owner of U.S. Steel big business

agreement that ended the Spanish-American War

He was a naval officer and historian, urged American leaders to build a stronger navy

exxagerated news stories that encouraged war with Spain

To have a commanding place or position in.

deaths in WWI

volunteer soldiers led by Teddy Roosevelt

This states that anyone born inside the United States is a free and equal citizen.

A violent event in 1886 in Chicago that started as a labor union strike

To treat someone unfairly in order to earn money or gain an advantage

First African-American to earn a Ph.D. and helped found the NAACP

The name for when a big business creates a monopoly

He sailed a fleet of American warships into present- day Tokyo Bay, Japan.

future leader of Austria-Hungary who was shot to start WWI

a big business

Allowed a person to vote as long as his ancestors had voted prior to 1866

illegal war supplies

President Woodrow Wilson’s plan for after World War I ended

The policy by which strong nations extend their control over weaker territories.

were members of Congress who believed all people were equal