Question | Answer |
What was the name of the battle between the Sioux and the 7th Cavalry? | Battle of Little Big Horn |
What was the purpose of President Taft's foreign diplomacy policy called "Dollar Diplomacy"? | American businessmen investing in underdeveloped countries |
What was the result of the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty of 1903? | construction of Panama Canal |
What territories did the US acquire as a result of the Spanish-American War in 1898? | Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Phillipines |
What was the purpose of the Open Door Policy supported by the US? | equal trade by all nations within China |
What was the Roosevelt Corollary addendum to the Monroe Doctrine? | US had the right to take military action in Latin and South American countries |
This act excluded Chinese immigration in 1882 | Chinese Exclusion Act |
What was the 2 most important demands of laborers during the second industrial revolution? | higher wages and safer working conditions |
This inventor is responsible for the automotive industry. | Henry Ford |
The passage of this amendment granted suffrage to women regardless of color. | 19th Amendment |
This 3rd political party is responsible for antitrust laws and the Pure Food and Drug act. | Progressive |
As president, this individual secured passage of the Clayton Act. | Woodrow Wilson |
This strike lasted 5 months and was the result of pay cuts by management | Homestead Strike |
This individual controlled elections in NYC in the 1870s. | Boss Tweed |
This individual was one of many social reformers helping the urban poor and immigrants. | Jane Addams |
The act of controlling a product from start to finish | vertical integration |
This individual controlled 90% of the nations steel production in 1890. | Andrew Carnegie |
This individual exposed unsanitary conditions in the meat industry which led to passage of this federal law. | Upton Sinclair and Meat Inspection Act |
These federal laws regulated commerce and business. | Interstate Commerce Act and Federal Trade Commission Act |
This individual challenged the social conventions of the early 20th century with the dispense of birth control. | Margaret Sanger |
This inventor and invention revolutionized electricity. | Thomas Edison and the light bulb |
Their assassination initiated the alliance system in Europe leading to world war | Franz Ferdinand and Sophie |
Message from Germany to Mexico requesting their assistance in return for lost territory. | Zimmerman note |
Passage of these acts punished anyone criticizing the war effort or the federal gov't | Espionage and Sedition Acts |
Document punishing Germany for World War I | Treaty Versailles |