A political movement heavily supported by farmers that called for governmental intervention in the railroads and free silver amongst other things.
What is the Populism?
100
President of the American Railway Union.
Who is Eugene Debs?
100
The sinking of this British liner was one of the reasons that prompted Americans to enter World War One.
What is the Lusitania?
200
Presidential Reconstruction
Who is Andrew Johnson?
200
Merit system for federal employees.
What is the Civil Service Act?
200
Postwar anti-labor crusade.
What is the First Red Scare?
200
Settlement Home movement.
Who is Jane Addams?
200
Law passed in 1887 that encouraged the adoption of white norms by Indians and broke up tribal land holdings into small farms.
What is the Dawes Act?
300
Advocated vocational training for blacks.
Who is Booker T Washington?
300
Limited working hours for women.
What is Muller v. Oregon?
300
Officially ended Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
300
Four minute men; George Creel.
What is the Committee on Public Information?
300
Set off by a railroad failure, too much speculation on Wall Street, and low agricultural prices.
What is Panic of 1893?
400
Birth control movement.
Who is Margaret Sanger?
400
Prohibited the interstate transportation and sale of adulterated food.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
400
Violence during an anarchist protest in Chicago in 1886 that ended in the death of 8 people including 7 policemen.
What is the Haymarket Riot or Affair?
400
The first war that America fought on another country's soil. (Hint: Cuba)
What is the Spanish American War?
400
A Reconstruction agency established to protect the legal rights of former slaves and to assist with their education, jobs, healthcare, and land owning.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
500
Scientific Management.
Who is Frederick Taylor?
500
Graduated income tax.
What is the 16th Amendment?
500
Violent strike at the Carnegie Steel Company in 1892.
What is the Homestead Strike?
500
Early 20th Century term describing the economic system pioneered by the Ford Motor Company based on high wages and mass consumption.
What is Fordism?
500
Political party formed by Teddy Roosevelt and his supporters when he ran in the 1912 Presidential election.