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US History 2
Question | Answer |
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This doubled the size of the US. | Louisiana Purchase |
Regulated Telephone and telegraph companies. | Mann-Elkins Act |
Territory that became California Nevada and Utah. | Mexican Session |
Gave rights to minerals oil and water to the Mexican Government. | Mexican constitution |
Voyage endured by Africans slaves across the Atlantic. | Middle Passage |
When one company gains control over an entire industry. | Monopoly |
US would oppose spread of European influence in the Americas. | Monroe Doctrine |
Investigative journalists and writers who exposed social and corruption problems. | Muckrakers |
Covered parts of Europe and Asia. | Muslim Empire in 750 A.D. |
Gives full voting writes to women. | 19th Amendment |
Political bosses used this these methods to gain power and wealth. | No association with politicians, kickbacks, signing contracts with the city |
Won by T. Roosevelt for settling the Russo-Japanese War. | Nobel Peace Prize |
Factory that DOES NOT allow it's workers to belong to a union. | Open shop |
Protects and inventor's rights to make use or sell his invention. | Patent |
Founder of colony where people of different religions and nationalities could live together peacefully. | William Penn |
Reform movement that protested unfair and corrupt business practices in rural areas. | Populism |
Restrictions on immigration voting reforms and government ownership of railroads. | Populists supported these |
Issued by Lincoln at the start of the Civil War. | Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction |
Reform movement that improved the living and working conditions in cities. | Progressivism |
Process of making damaged land productive again. | Reclamation |
Supported all-white-persons- government. | Redeemers |
Became President after the assassination of William McKinley. | Roosevelt, Theodore |
Community centers that offered education training and cultural centers. | Settlement houses |
Gives voters the power to elect their senators directly. | 17th Amendment |
Negotiated to buy Alaska from Russia. | William Seward |
Outlawed all monopolies and trusts. | Sherman Anti-Trust Act |
Portugal's most important source of income in the late 1500's. | Slave Trade |
The "fittest" people would succeed while the "unfit" would fail. | Social Darwinism |
Wanted all major industries to be publicly owned. | Socialist Party |
Began after the destruction of the USS MAINE. | Spanish-American War |
Campaign slogan of Theodore Roosevelt. | Square Deal |
Favored dollar diplomacy in Latin America. | William Howard Taft |
Muckraking author of History of the Standard Oil Company. | Ida Tarbell |
This invention created new jobs for women. | Telephone |
All citizens have "equal protection under the law". | 13th Amendment |