Unit 9: Reform and Expansion

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

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

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

Practice of more powerful countries controlling other countries is called

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

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

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

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

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

Support of the US in Panama was to

Taking no side in a conflict is called

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

Who was responsible for the rise of the US Steel industry

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

A feeling of intense loyalty to one's country?

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

Most immigrants from the "NEW" wave experienced

The 18th Amendment dealing with Prohibition, is the only amendment to be repealed by amendment

What caused the other 3?

National policy of avoiding involvement of world affairs is called?

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

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

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

People who exposed abuses in businesses and government were called?

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

Henry Ford invented and improved the idea of the

Quota limits and the Chinese Exclusion Act are examples of

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What did Teddy Roosevelt's Big Stick Policy do?

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

Washington Duke made his fortune in NC by inventing

John D. Rockefeller

What law or act broke up monopolies in our country?

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

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

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

Railroad building resulted in all of the following but

Alexander Graham Bell in 1876 invented the

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

America is a nation of

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

Thomas Edison invented what ground breaking invention?

Nativists greatest fear about immigrants was?

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

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

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

What did labor unions try and achieve?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What was the name of urban slum buildings?

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

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

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