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- Consists of policies aimed at extending the political, economic and cultural influence of the United States over areas beyond its boundaries
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- Territorial expansion of the United States
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- The period in American history that followed the American Civil War
- Marked a significant chapter in the history of civil rights in the United States
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- All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
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- An era of rapid economic growth, especially in the Northern United States and the Western United States.
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- The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
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- An armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army
- The battle, which resulted in the defeat of U.S. forces, was the most significant action of the Great Sioux War of 1876
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- Regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States
- It authorized the President of the United States to subdivide Native American tribal communal landholdings into allotments for Native American heads of families and individuals
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- A political philosophy in support of social reform
- Based on the idea of progress in which advancements in science, technology, economic development and social organization are vital to the improvement of the human condition
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- The slaughter of approximately 150–300 Lakota Indians by United States Army troops in the area of Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota
- The massacre was the climax of the U.S. Army's late 19th-century efforts to repress the Plains Indians
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- Carnegie Steel Company was a steel-producing company primarily created by Andrew Carnegie and several close associates, to manage businesses at steel mills in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area
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- Hawaii's monarchy was overthrown when a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate
- The coup led to the dissolving of the Kingdom of Hawaii two years later, its annexation as a U.S. territory and eventual admission as the 50th state in the union
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- A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality
- A doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".
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- An armed conflict between Spain and the United States in 1898
- Hostilities began after the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence
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- Author: Upton Sinclair
- Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Co.
- Publication date: February 26, 1906
- Media type: Print (hardcover)
- Published serially in 1905 and as a single-volume book in 1906
- The most famous, influential, and enduring of all muckraking novels, The Jungle was an expose of conditions in the Chicago stockyards
- Because of the public response, the U.S. Pure Food and Drug Act was passed in 1906, and conditions in American slaughterhouses were improved
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- The Supreme Court of the United States ruled, that Standard Oil of New Jersey must be dissolved under the Sherman Antitrust Act
- Split into 34 companies.
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- A factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City
- Was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history
- This fire caused there to be working regulations
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- A constructed waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans across the Isthmus of Panama.
- Owned and administered by Panama, and it is 40 miles long from shoreline to shoreline
- Ships can cross going in either direction, and it takes about 10 hours to get from one side to the other
- Ships from any country are treated equally with respect to conditions of passage and tolls.
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- Also known as Wick's Bill, was a short-lived statute enacted by the U.S. Congress
- which sought to address child labor by prohibiting the sale in interstate commerce of goods produced by factories that employed children under fourteen
- mines that employed children younger than sixteen, and any facility where children under fourteen worked after 7:00 p.m. or before 6:00 a.m. or more than eight hours daily.
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- Women's Right to Vote
- Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920
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- Alcohol consumption was the most significant form of protest
- Gangsters were taking hold of America's cities, and increasing levels of violence accompanied bootlegging and liquor smuggling
- Scores of Americans were poisoned every week by drinking moonshine
