Journalist during the Progressive Era who exposed the evils of industrialization and urbanization.
Who are Muckrakers
100
This became a cause of Imperialism in the US because there was No more land for the US to expand westward.
Who are Imperialists and Anti-Imperialist
100
The name used to describe the "new" woman of the 1920s who wore short hair and dresses and expanded social freedoms.
What is the flapper.
100
The name used to describe the "new" woman of the 1920s who wore short hair and dresses and expanded social freedoms.
What is the flapper.
100
I created a photobook that exposed the conditions of the tenements in the late 19th century called "How the Other Half Lives".
Who is Jacob Riis
200
The housing units that mainly poor immigrant workers lived in, a stark difference to the opulence of the top 1%.
What are the tenements
200
US desires access to this country in Asia for resources and as a market for US goods.
What is China
200
The name for the new type of economy in the 1920s.
What is a Consumer Economy
200
The Wagner Act, Social Security and Fair Labor Standards Act are all examples of which part of FDR's New Deal.
What is Reform
200
Founder of Hull House in Chicago, I was a leading female Progressive especially in my work to assist poor immigrant women in finding meaningful employment during the early 1900s
Who is Jane Addams
300
An example of a Federal Law passed to limit the business practices of Monopolies and Big Business.
Who are female, middle-class reformers
300
The country the US took over during Imperialism in order to build a canal across Central America.
What is Panama
300
This was improved by the use of new technologies like, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, washing machines and radios that gave people more leisure time.
What is Standard of Living
300
How did FDR address the problem with Banking when he first came into office as President.
What is the Banking Holiday and Emergency Banking Act
300
I clashed with Booker T. Washington in his belief that African Americans should accept segregation. I believed in the "Talented Tenth" and the NAACP, pushing for the enforcement of the 14th and 15th amendments.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois
400
The state-level way in which average citizens can be directly involved in the political process.
What are initiative, referendum and recall.
400
Wilson's foreign policy which included the belief that we should support any country that has the same ideology as the United States.
What is Moral Diplomacy
400
The name used to describe the "new" woman of the 1920's who wore short hair and dresses and expanded social freedoms.
What is a Flapper
400
A weather disaster that led to the increased migration of Farmers and Okies westward to places like California.
What is the Dust Bowl
400
An environmentalist way before my time, I was influential during Teddy Roosevelt's administration and founder of the Sierra Club.
Who is John Muir
500
A change to the Constitution that gave citizens the power to directly elect their Senators to Congress.
What is the 17th Amendment
500
In order to keep European nations out of the affairs of Central/South American nations through the promise of US military intervention, this was added to US foreign policy in 1904.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary
500
Charles Lindbergh, Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Jack Dempsey and Jim Thorpe are all examples of what during the 1920's.
What are New Heroes
500
The president at the beginning of the Great Depression who was blamed for not doing enough to help the people.
Who is Herbert Hoover
500
Attorney General of the US from 1919-1921, I ordered a major crackdown on supposed radicals and anarchists in the aftermath of WWI (but I left the dirty work to my protege J. Edgar Hoover).