| A | B |
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| Transcontinental Railroad | railroad that connected the Atlantic & Pacific coasts |
| Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad | allowed more people to settle in the west, allowed raw materials to be shipped to the east for industrialization |
| The effects of Westward Expansion on Native Americans | white settlers began settling on their land and the Native Americans were forced to relocate to reservations |
| Henry Ford | built the first inexpensive car, created a less expensive way to manufacture cars, invented the assembly line |
| purpose of labor unions | to improve the pay, working hours and working conditions of workers |
| stock | shares of ownership a company sells in its business which often carry voting power |
| monopoly | total control of a type of industtry by one person or one company |
| Thomas Edison | inventor of the lightbulb, phonograph and motion picture projector |
| Ellis Island | an island where immigrants would register before entering the US |
| Statue of Liberty | a gift from the French, children helped raise the $$ to put the statue together |
| Gilded Age | Late 1800's when the country appeared to be very rich when there was much poverty and discrimination |
| sweatshops | factories with very unsanitary conditions for their workers |
| Muckrakers | a journalist that uncovers abuses and corruption in a society. |
| Lincoln Steffens | a muckraker that exposed corrupt machines in his book "The Shame of the Cities" |
| Upton Sinclair | a muckraker who described the horrors of meat packing in his book "The Jungle" |
| Suffrage Movement | helped women earn the right to vote |
| annexation | bringing an area under the control of a larger country |
| imperialism | actions used by one nation to exercise political or economic control over smaller or weaker nations |
| How the U.S. entered the Spanish American War | yellow journalism, propaganda |
| Results of the Spanish American War | US became a protectorate of Cuba. Puerto Rico & Guam became US territories, US bought the Phillippines from Spain |
| Event that started WW1 | assassination of Archduke Ferdinand |
| nationalism | loyalty to a nation and promotion of its interests above all others |
| alliances | a close association of nations or other groups, formed to advance common interests or causes |
| ethnic group | a minority that speaks a different language or follows differnt customs than the majority of the people in a country |
| liberty bonds | bonds sold in the US to help pay for WW1 and WW2 |
| Treaty of Versailles | made Germany take full responsibility for WW1 and made them pay reparations to the Allies. Germany had to disarm and give up all its overseas colonies |
| prohibition | nationwide ban on the manufacture, sale and transportation of liquor in the US |
| Temperance Movement | tried to outlaw the consumption and production of alcohol |
| 18th amendment | prohibition of alcohol |
| 19th amendment | gave women the right to vote |
| communism | form of govt where one leader is the ruler of a country |
| capitalism | an economic system based on private property and free enterprise |
| FDR's response to the Great Depression | created the New Deal Plan |
| New Deal | gave us programs such as Social Security and the FDIC |
| Dust Bowl | completely destroyed farmers crops and many people became ill and died from breathing the dust |
| main formof communication in the 1920's, 30's and 40's | the radio |
