Progressive Era 1890-1920
Who created the assembly line?
Henry Ford
An illegal bar that operated during prohibition
Speakeasy
The purchasing of stock with little money down with the promise of paying the balance at sometime in the future
Buying on a Margin
First African American to play in the major leagues
Jackie Robinson
Chinese students started uprisings here
Tienanmen Square
Who exposed the Standard Oil Company?
Ida Tarbell
Where was Jazz music originally born?
New Orleans
Who said this?- "Share our wealth"
Huey Long
Rosa parks, arrested for not giving up her seat on the back of a bus, triggered a bus boycott for what city's bus system?
Montgomery, Alabama
Toxic waste dump in NY that exposed danger of chemical pollution
Love Canal
Most immigrants coming to America were first examined at this place
Ellis Island
Author who wrote "The Sun Also Rises"
Ernest Hemingway
How long was FDR in office for?
100 days
African American group that thought only way to freedom was through violence
Black Panthers
Who was the main founder of the National Organization for Women?
Betty Friedman
This legalized tax, and gave congress the power to tax income
16th Amendment
Was one of the most well-known mobsters of the 1920s
Al Capone
Group of black leaders who unofficially advised FDR concerning African American situations
Black Cabinet
What president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Gorbachev's plan to restructure the economy
Perestrokia
What was created by Progressives, which allowed citizens to create their own state laws without involvement of the legislature?
Initiative
An economic system based on private property and free enterprise
Capitalism
What was the unemployment rate during the Great Depression?
25%
What was it called when about 1000 black and white volunteers went to Mississippi in an effort to register black american voters
Freedom Summer
What's Reagan's most famous saying?
"Where's the rest of me"