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A populist leader who proposed federally funded projects to give out more jobs
Who is Jacob Coxey?
This act passed in 1935, guaranteed income for retirees, the disabled, and the unemployed.
What is the Social Security Act?
Harding's cabinet(or the Poker Cabinet), was made up of old friends from the president's home state who were knowledgeable in the areas in which they served.
Who is the Ohio Gang?
Congress passed this Act in 1903, which gave the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) more power to prohibit rail companies from giving rebates and kickbacks to favored customers.
What is the Elkins Act?
This man stunned the crowd at the Democratic National Convention with his famous "Cross of Gold" speech, which made him the spokesperson for the prosilver advocates.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
During the Second New Deal, this act established a federal minimum wage and set the maximum hours for workers employed by interstate businesses.
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act?
To encourage more public works projects and the employment of nontraditional workers, such as artists, writers, and young people, this organization employed Americans to build bridges, refurbish parks, write plays, and paint murals.
What is the Works Progress Administration?
This Act in 1906 allowed the ICC to regulate rates railroad lines could charge, ending the price gouging that had been the bane of farmers.
What is the Hepburn Act?
Female activist who traveled the country protesting and lobbying for the rights of all workers.
Who is Mother Jones?
This act replaced the Dawes Act of 1887, returning lands to the tribes and giving support to Native Americans to reestablish and preserve tribal culture.
What is the Indian Reorganization Act?
This group was composed mainly of skilled workers who did not agree that unions should protect all workers.
What is The American Federation of Labor?
Congress passed this monumental Act in 1913, which created the Federal Reserve System.
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
An American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse.
Who is Margaret Sanger?
This act set a strict limit on individuals from each nation of origin based on the 1910 census.
What is the Immigration Act?
Claiming that the New Deal was socialism, anti-Roosevelt Democrats formed this League to promote the concerns of big business and advocate for small government.
What is the American Liberty League?
This act restricted the number of people allowed.
What is the Emergency Quota Act?
American Novelist, popular for The Jungle.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Mostly aimed at German Americans and antiwar protesters, this Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918 limited the right to free speech.
What is the Espionage Act?
This league is an international Jewish non-governmental organization based in the United States. Its mission is to fight anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, defend democratic ideals, and defend civil rights for all.
What is the Anti-Defamation League?
This Act of 1910 placed the regulation of communications directly under the ICC.
What is the Mann-Elkins Act?