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| transcontinental railroad | credited with uniting the eastern and western parts of the United States |
| Why did the Homestead Act not work? | Speculators instead of farmers took possession of the land |
| The way of life of the buffalo depended largely on what? | buffalo |
| Which group looked for a new beginning in the west? | former slaves (exodusters) |
| sod houses | built on the plains due to a shortage of wood |
| The Battle of Little Bighorn | successful for the Indians; they won over the army |
| cattle ranching, farming, and mining | chief ways of earning a living in the west |
| Chief Joseph | led the Nez Perce Indians in the struggle for land |
| Promontory Point, UT | place where the trancontinental railroad met |
| Noncontiguous states | Alaska and Hawaii |
| assembly line | led to mass production of automobiles |
| corporation | a business owned by many investors |
| Henry Ford | known for bringing the assembly line to the United States |
| Sherman Anti-Trust Act | banned monopolies in the United States |
| John D. Rockefeller | led the oil industry |
| Bessemer Process | used by Andrew Carnegie to make steel |
| Impact of telephone on America | improvement of communication between people and businesses |
| Thomas Edison | inventor of light bulb, electric generator |
| Reasons for immigration | religious freedom, better opportunities, oppressive governments |
| services of the Settlement house | English classes for immigrants, summer camp for children, and a nursery for working mothers |
| muckraking | type of journalism that assisted in the arrest of Boss Tweed |
| Characteristics of tenements | poor, crowded, hazardous, unempolyment, unhealthy |
| Immigrant groups | separated the ghettos in the cities |
| political cartoons | even people who couldn't read could understand them |
| political machines | political organizations which maintained power in the ciites by controlling vots, courts and the police |
| Quota laws | passed to limit the number of immigrants coming into the U.S. |
| Chinese immigrants | worked primarily in the railroad industry |
| Negative effects of industrialization | child labor, unsafe working conditions, long hours, low wages |
| Labor unions | fought for better working conditions, higher pay, and shorter hours by striking |
| Susan B. Anthony | worked for women's suffrage |
| increased opportunities for women | education, jobs, voting |
| 19th Amendment | women gained right to vote |
| Temperance movement | worked to outlaw alcohol in U.S. -- did not work |
| 18th Amendment | Prohibition--outlawed alcohol consumption in U.S. |
| Reasons for U.S. involvement in Spanish-American War | 1.protecting U.S. business interests 2.helping Cubans gain independence 3. explosion of USS Maine 4. Yellow journalism |
| Yellow Journalism | reporters that exaggerated the facts in the news events |
| Results of Spanish-American War | 1. U.S. emerged as world power 2.Cuba gained independence 3. US gained the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico |
| Imperialism | one contry dominating others |
| Nationalism | a feeling of pride and loyalty to one's country |
| Alliance | agreement between countries to help one another |
| Isolationism | policy that the U.S. followed after the Spanish-American war and after WWI |
| Militarism | the process of building up the military to fight |
| Central Powers | Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey |
| Allied Powers | Great Britain, France, Russia, Serbia, Belgium |
| Trench warfare | a style of fighting where the soldiers dug trenches and fought from them |
| Reasons U.S. entered WWI | U.S. inability to remain neutral, the sinking of the Lusitania, the Zimmerman Note, U.S. economic/political ties to Great Britain |
| Treaty of Versailles | Peace treaty that ended WWI; Central Powers surrendered |
| League of Nations | created by Woodrow Wilson; designed to be an international peacekeeping organization |
| Why did the League of Nations fail? | U.S. refused to join/did not want to get involved in other country's problems |
| Woodrow Wilson | U.S. President during WWI |
