Money (That's What I Want)
The financial concept that William Jennings Bryan strongly supported in the 1896 Presidential Election.
What is the Gold Standard?
The geographic innovation that allowed trade between the farms of the Great Lakes and big cities on the East Coast.
What is the Erie Canal?
The Puritan founder of Rhode Island who encouraged religious toleration.
Who is Roger Williams?
British colonial settlers spilled over the Appalachian Mountains into this region, triggering the French and Indian War.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
The _____ Exclusion Act severely restricted immigration from this country.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The financial instrument used to fund the Civil War.
What are greenbacks?
This bombing in 1886 inspired the creation of a famous worldwide holiday that occurred just a few days ago.
What is the Haymarket Affair?
A reverend who founded the "Moral Majority" and Liberty University, urging a return to traditional Christian values.
Who is Jerry Falwell?
The region that inspired the slogan in the 1844 Presidential Election "54-40 or fight!"
What is Oregon?
The first president for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and Martin Luther King's opening act at the March on Washington.
Who is John Lewis?
The financial crisis that led to the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank.
What is the Panic of 1907?
This union organized the Bread and Roses Strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Who are the Industrial Workers of the World?
The town that was the focus of the "Scopes-Monkey Trial."
What is Dayton, Tennessee?
What is the Dominican Republic?
The 1887 law that shut down most Native reservations and converted them to private land.
What is the Dawes Act?
The type of tax that inspired the Whiskey Rebellion.
What is an excise tax?
The pioneer of what some call "scientific management" published his most famous book Principles of Scientific Management in 1909.
Who is Frederick Winslow Taylor?
Who are the Jesuits?
The name of the Iranian Prime Minister overthrown in a 1953 coup supported by the CIA.
Who is Mohammed Mossadegh?
The group of mercenaries hired from what is now Germany to fight against the colonists during the Revolution.
Who are the Hessians?
The controversial tariff that arguably worsened the Great Depression.
What is the Smoot Hawley Tariff?
The author of the book "The Jungle" that urged the creation of protections for workers at meatpacking plants.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
The prominent church leader who led the Mormons to their "Zion" in what is now Utah.
Who is Brigham Young?
"Bleeding ..."
What is Kansas?
What is the Lend Lease Act?