Unit 9: Reform and Expansion

People who exposed abuses in businesses and government were called?

Policy that allowed nations in China to trade freely in the other nations spheres of influence

What book by Upton Sinclair publicized the unsanitary conditions in the meat packing industry?

The words of what native American Chief's surrender reflect the tragedy of his people?

Discussions between an employer & labor unions over wages, hours, working conditions is called

The Temperance Movement succeeded in banning the consumption of alcohol when Congress passed

Institution located in poor neighborhoods that provide numerous community services is called?

After passing the Statue of Liberty what was the immigrants point of entry called?

Investor & banker who dominated industrial consolidation & corporate finance (GE & US Steel)

Railroad building resulted in all of the following but

What becomes known as Seward's Folly or Seward's Ice box?

Most immigrants from the "NEW" wave experienced

Yellow Journalism with the explosion of the USS Maine aided the started of what conflict

Leaders of Big Business were called what during the Gilded Age?

Who pioneered a new form of transportation by successfully flying for 12 sec. in Kitty Hawk, NC

Who was responsible for the rise of the US Steel industry

General Custer & his troops were defeated/killed by Sitting Bull & Crazy Horse at the battle of

A shop or factory where workers work long hours at low wages under unsafe conditions is called

Jacob Riis exposed the living conditions of the urban poor in what book?

Obtaining equal rights for women was the goal at which convention?

Three largest industries of NC during the late 1880's and early 1900's were

AA moving out of the rural South looking for jobs in Northern factories was called

Section of a country in this case China where one foreign nation enjoys special rights & powers

Who was the last Native American to formally surrender to the US after years of fighting?

Government policy of forcing Native Americans off their lands and onto gov land called?

The plow, the Homestead Act, and the transcontinental railroad encouraged?

Name given to Progressive Era Presidents who used gov. power to promote business competition

Annexation of Hawaii, Open Door Policy, results of the Spanish-American War are attempts of US

Writing that exaggerates or embellishes the facts & stories in order to attract readers is

Name given to the partnership of Populists & Republicans in NC to regain control from Democrats

Susan B Anthony, Lucretia Mott, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are all associated with?

person or company gaining almost total control of an industry is called

160 acres to anyone who stayed for 5 years and payed a 10 dollar filing fee was called

Cramped quarters of ship's lower decks for passengers paying the lowest fares.

Discovered food products & promoted use of alternate crops in the South such as peanuts.

What did labor unions try and achieve?

Which example below is not how the South denied voting rights to African Americans?

What did Teddy Roosevelt's Big Stick Policy do?

Passage of laws restricting immigration would be supported by what group of people?

What gave "police powers" to the US to prevent European influence in Latin America?

After their families, men of wealth's duty was to spend his money to benefit the community?

WEB DuBois founded what group intended on fighting discrimination against African Americans?

National policy of avoiding involvement of world affairs is called?

Alexander Graham Bell in 1876 invented the

What was the name of urban slum buildings?

What law or act broke up monopolies in our country?

Thomas Edison invented what ground breaking invention?

Support of the US in Panama was to

The Meat Inspection Act & Food & Drug Act were efforts by the government to

What motivation did the US have in over seas expansion and imperialism?

What event marked the end of the Native American wars in the United States?

Henry Ford invented and improved the idea of the

Nationwide ban on the production, distribution, and consumption of alcohol was called

Women's Suffrage Movement was successful in obtaining women's rights when Congress passed?

The 18th Amendment dealing with Prohibition, is the only amendment to be repealed by amendment

Combination of businesses by legal terms in order reduce competition is called

A massive growth in population of cities by people migrating there is called?

Presidents who worked to limit the power of big business where called

What caused the other 3?

Taking no side in a conflict is called

Quota limits and the Chinese Exclusion Act are examples of

Leader of Hawaii that worked to try and regain control from the US?

Railroad baron and his family also built a home known as the Biltmore Estate in Ashville, NC.

"Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick" was Roosevelt's policy towards?

Homestead Strike, Pullman Strike, & Haymarket Strike showed that labor unions would

America is a nation of

A former slave & founder of the National Negro Business League & the Tuskegee Institute .

Nativists greatest fear about immigrants was?

Government needs to regulate big business to protect consumers and workers is the belief of?

John D. Rockefeller

This was added to the Monroe Doctrine giving the US police powers in Latin America.

A thin layer of gold masking social problems was called what age

Washington Duke made his fortune in NC by inventing

What was the ultimate goal of the US for fighting the Native American wars of the late 1800s?

Practice of more powerful countries controlling other countries is called

A feeling of intense loyalty to one's country?