Railroad connecting the west and east coasts of the continental US. Interstate trade expanded and the US entered a period a great economic growth

Resulted in the decrease of the buffalo population, the U.S. fighting a series of battles with the Native Americans, and then forcing them to move to reservations

Steel, chemicals, electricity. This is the name for the new wave of heavy industrialization starting around the 1860s. This resulted in urbanization.

Workers face hardships, labor reforms are developed, towns and cities grow (urbanization), and giant corporations are created

A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, socially, and economically. The U.S. acquired several overseas territories during this time.

Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations, attract readers, and influence public opinion

A social reform movement that was founded to fight discrimination

Term used to describe the corporations and monopolies since the industrial revolution of the late 1800s.

Congressional law aimed at regulating trusts and monopolies

European immigrants saw this structure as a symbol of hope and freedom.

Poem by Emma Lazarus inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty; welcomes immigrants to America

Immigration processing center that open in New York Harbor in 1892

Book written by Upton Sinclair, that exposed the horrible, unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry. Example of muckraking.

Journalists who wanted social reform, so they exposed the harmful practices of business and government

social reformer who campaigned for women's rights and helped form the National Woman Suffrage Association. Her efforts resulted in the 19th Amendment

Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism

Due to unrestricted submarine warfare, the sinking of the Lusitania, and the Zimmerman Telegram

President during WWI

A form of World War I warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield.

Woodrow Wilson's post-World War I plan aimed at preventing future wars. This plan called for self-determination, freedom of the seas, free trade, end to secret agreements, reduction of arms and a League of Nations.

An organization of nations formed after World War I to promote cooperation and peace. The Senate opposed US membership, because they feared inclusion would involve American in foreign conflicts

Decade characterized by fads and flappers; Harlem Renaissance, the Stock Market Crash, and Prohibition

Began with passage of the 18th Amendment; it forbade the sale of alcoholic beverages. Many Americans did not support the law, so it was repealed with the 21st Amendment

Rose up during Prohibition, because even though the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages was illegal, many Americans ignored the law