Unit 3 - America Becomes a World Power

The Gilded Age was ...

• the period after the US lost World War 1

• a period of rapid economic growth after the Civil War

• a time of social reforms around 1900

• a time when US political parties changed

Tenements were ...

• mud houses built by homesteaders

• large buildings in urban areas with many units

• large houses built by wealthy business owners

• a special type of train car that carried cargo

How did workers try to improve their working conditions during the Gilded Age?

• changing industries

• attending college

• moving to the Great Plains

• forming labor unions

_____________ led to the decline of the buffalo, but an increase in the Great Plains population.

• Chinese immigration

• Urbanization

• The transcontinental railroad

• Muckraking

journalists who researched social issues and published their findings

• progressives

• muckrakers

• labor unions

• advocates

What did Jacob Riis reveal with his book How the Other Half Lives?

• the glamorous lives of business tycoons

• working conditions in steel mills

• conditions in slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants

• living conditions in tenement buildings

rapid growth of cities

• industrialization

• urbanization

• transcontinental

• integration

The Spanish-American War started when ...

• Spain invaded Florida

• South Carolina seceded from the U.S.

• The U.S. invaded Cuba

• Puerto Rico attacked Spain

World War 1 started in ...

• 1898

• 1914

• 1917

• 1939

In 1898, the U.S. wanted to annex (add) Hawaii because...

• of the profitable sugar business

• they had so much oil

• Congress wanted to increase the diversity of the U.S.

• they liked the queen's government structure