This woman became an advocate for improving the lives of women and children. She was appointed chief inspector of factories in Illinois.
Who is Florence Kelley?
100
This woman was a leading proponent of woman suffrage movement.
Who was Susan B. Anthony?
100
A muckraking journalist who focused on the human condition and exposed the meatpacking industry in his book "The Jungle".
Who is Upton Sinclair?
100
This amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
100
He is responsible for the world known as Westeros, the Lanisters, and the phrase "Winter is coming. His series of novels were made into an HBO series.
Who is George R. R. Martin?
200
This movement aimed to return control of the government to the people, restore economic opportunities, and correct injustices in American Life.
What is the progressive movement?
200
Founded in 1896, this African-American women's club movement was an organization that managed nurseries, reading rooms, and kindergartens.
What is the NACW or National Association of Colored Women?
200
This term was used to describe the various progressive reforms sponsored by the Roosevelt administration.
What is the Square Deal?
200
This plan reformed how the American banks were organized.
What is the Federal Reserve System?
200
She is the protagonist in The Hunger Games.
Who is Katniss Everdeen?
300
This was the banning of alcoholic beverages. It was considered a fix to the problems Americans and immigrants had with morality. Reformers feared that alcohol was undermining American morals.
What is Prohibition?
300
This is a word that means the "right to vote".
What is suffrage?
300
This act dictated strict cleanliness requirements for meatpackers and created the program of federal meat inspection.
What is the Meat Inspection Act of 1906?
300
This is a watchdog agency given the power to stop unfair business practices.
What is the Federal Trade Commission?
300
This man is responsible for the Marvel Universe. Without him Spider-man doesn't exist. He has a tendency to also have cameos in every Marvel movie.
Who is Stan Lee?
400
This amendment of 1912 made direct election of senators the law of the land in 1913.
What is the Seventeenth Amendment?
400
This organization united with another group NWSA founded by Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1890.
What is NAWSA or the National American Woman Suffrage Association?
400
This word means that some wilderness areas would be preserved while others would be developed for the common good.
What is conservation?
400
He was the former president of Princeton University and governor of New Jersey before becoming president of the United States.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
400
Initially released as Famicom or Family computer in Japan, this came to the US in 1985 and effectively bolstered and reinvigorated a failing video game industry.
What is the NES or Nintendo Entertainment System?
500
This is a word given to journalists who wrote about corrupt side of business and public life in mass circulation magazines during the early 20th century.
What is muckrakers?
500
This crazy ax wielding lady reformer would go into bars and take an ax to bottles in the fight for prohibition. Jason has nothing on her!
Who is Carry Nation?
500
This organization had over 6000 members in 1914 and aimed for nothing less than full equality among races.
What is the NAACP?
500
He was Roosevelt's secretary of war whom he handpicked to run against the inevitable William Jennings Bryan (3 time loser). His slogan " Vote for ______ this time, You can vote for Bryan any time." An obvious attempt at shade thrown at WJB. He was also responsible for the split with the Republican Party.
Who is William Howard Taft?
500
This actor portrayed Luke Skywalker and supplied the voice for the Joker in Batman: The Animated series and other voice work for various cartoons.