The Square Deal
This president created the "Square Deal" program to help all citizens of the United States and protect the public interest.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
The 1906 Antiquities Act gave the President the power to protect natural wonders by declaring them to be...
What are National Monuments?
This book by Upton Sinclair shocked the public by exposing the gross and unsanitary conditions inside meatpacking plants.
What is The Jungle?
This giant ocean made Americans feel safe and protected from the political troubles happening in Europe.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Despite being incredibly slow on land, these tree dwellers, especially the three-toed variety, are surprisingly excellent swimmers, able to hold their breaths for 40 minutes.
What are sloths?
President Roosevelt's "Square Deal" focused on the Three C's: Control of Corporations, Consumer Protection, and this...
What is Conservation?
Who are future generations of Americans?
Unlike Roosevelt's plan to simply regulate monopolies, this President's "New Freedom" vision sought to completely destroy corporate trusts.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
As Europe changed and began to crumble, the American economy began to expand and exceed expectations as new revenue entered the market and the US government due to this rhyming vocabulary term for breaking monopolies into smaller competing companies.
What is Trust-Busting?
This red planet is home to Olympus Mons, a giant shield volcano that is three times taller than Everest.
What is Mars?
Roosevelt used this specific 1890 law as a powerful executive weapon to sue and break up corporate monopolies.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This 1906 law forced companies that sold medicine to list their active ingredients, like alcohol and various narcotics, on their product labels.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
Signed by Wilson in 1913, this major act was passed to democratize central banking in America.
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
Most Americans were able to ignore the political issues of the Old World either in Europe or even the burgeoning Asian powers due to this term which refers to how America is cut off from the other continents.
What is Oceanic Isolation?
Known for the "People's Elbow", this legendary WWE superstar became famous for his raised eyebrow and consistently telling people it didn't matter what they thought.
Who is Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson?
When dealing with massive monopolies, Roosevelt famously divided corporations into these two categories based on how they used their power.
What are "good trusts" and "bad trusts"?
By the end of his Presidency, Theodore Roosevelt had placed this many acres of land under federal protection.
What is 230 million?
Reversing decades of integrated service, the Wilson administration authorized this harmful policy across federal departments.
What is segregation?
The "spark" of the First World War was localized to a single nation's internal/local politics, as Serbia wanted to be free and the Austro-Hungarian Empire wished to keep Serbia under its control, took place in 1914 when Gavrilo Princip did this....
What is shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
In astrophysics, the universe is expanding in all directions, and all of the superclusters of galaxies and outlying galaxies are moving directly away from each other at the same rate. In essence, if an observer on any planet in any galaxy looked up into the sky and saw everything was moving away from him, he would logically conclude he holds this place in the Universe.
What is the center of the universe?
(Interesting fact... logic is wrong. There is no center of the universe, its subjective...)
Northern Securities' railroad monopoly was dissolved in 1904 after a landmark Supreme Court case, firmly establishing this...
What is federal authority over big business?
The Bureau of Chemistry acted as the precursor of this organization, with the ability to inspect and regulate medicine and food.
What is the FDA (Food and Drug Administration)?
Passed in this year, the Clayton Antitrust Act strengthen prosecutions of monopolies and enshrined into law a labor union's right to strike.
What is 1914?
Before World War I, the average American considered the wars and politics of Europe to be "Old World" corrupt and aristocratic behavior, often referred to by this horsey style of social climbing.
What is power-jockeying?
In C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia this majectic, golden lion serves at the behest of his father, the Emperor-Beyond-the-Sea, and is the true creator of Narnia.
Who is Aslan?