Emily
Progressive Era
Progressive Era
Who was president during the progressive era and focused on splitting trusts, preserving nature, and regulating businesses?
Theodore Roosevelt
Who was president in the early 1980's?
Ronald Reagan
What would you call a person who flees his or her home or country to escape war, persecution, or other dangers?
A Refugee
What was the "March of the Mill Children" petitioning for?
Child labor laws
True or false was there an attempted assassination on Reagan the first year that he was president?
True!
What island in 1892–1954 welcomed over 12 million immigrants to America?
Ellis Island
What was the first state to adopt the direct primary election system?
Wisconsin
What was the campaign that Reagan used to focus on helping kids and teenagers
The “just say no campaign"
What was the first and only law that America passed to restrict a specific ethnic group from immigrating to America?
The Chinese Exclusion Act
When was the Nineteenth amendment ratified?
1920
Who tried to assassinate Reagan
John Hinckley Jr.
By 1927, how many immigrants were allowed to enter America annually?
150,000 immigrants
Who invented the "Law of competition"?
Charles Darwin
When Reagan was President how many people did he help get jobs?
16 to 20 million people!
Who was the Russian immigrant who in 1912 published her autobiography The Promised Land, journaling her challenges after she came to America?
Mary Antin