Overview
Answer the two questions below:
Essay Questions
1) What factors contributed to class conflict and racial violence during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era? (use at least seven of these nine key terms: Trusts and Monopolies, Great Strike of 1877, Knights of Labor, Haymarket Affair, Social Darwinism, Cotton Strike of 1891, Wilmington Massacre, Ida B. Wells, Tulsa Race Riot)
3) Why did the U.S. build an overseas colonial empire between 1898 and 1914, and how did imperialists and anti-imperialists view the issue differently? Provide specific examples from at least three of the following: Hawaii, Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Panama Canal. (use all five of these key terms: Queen Liliuokalani, Emilio Aguinaldo, Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt, Anti-Imperialist League)