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100
The protection of natural resources.
What is conservation?
100
Requires the United States Department of Agriculture to check all cattle, sheep, goats, and horses before they use them for meat that will be eaten by humans.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
100
The first national labor federation in the United States.
What is the National Labor Union?
100
He perfected the light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
Who is Barack Obama?
200
The practice of making high-risk investments in hopes of getting a huge return.
What is speculation?
200
It was passed on June 30, 1906. It is a United States Federal law that gave federal inspection of meat and products and stopped the manufacturing, sale and transportation of bad food.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
200
The largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of 1880s.
What are the Knights of Labor?
200
Wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Who is Mark Twain?
200
Some of this artist's songs are Not Afraid and Love the Way You Lie.
Who is Eminem?
300
A court order prohibiting certain activity.
What is injunction?
300
Made for the redemption of U.S. currency in gold beginning in 1879.
What is the Resumption Act?
300
A nationwide conflict between labor unions and railroads that happened in the U.S in 1894.
What is the Pullman Strike?
300
The 27th president of the United States.
Who is William Howard Taft?
300
A character from Sesame street who loves his goldfish and crayons.
Who is Elmo?
400
Rule by the wealthy or power provided by the wealth.
What is plutocracy?
400
It gave the Interstate Commerce Commission the authority to set maximum railroad rates.
What is the Hepburn Act?
400
One of the first federations of labor unions in the United States.
What is A.F. of L.?
400
The 28th president of the United Sates. One of three presidents to be widowed while still president.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
400
Songs include Rock the Boat and One in a Million. Died on August 25, 2001.
Who is Aaliyah?
500
Republican political activists who ran from the United States Republican Party during the presidential election of 1884.
What are mugwumps?
500
Required the U.S treasury to buy a certain amount of silver and make them into a circulation of silver dollars.
What is the Bland-Allison Act?
500
A practice that politicians did to criticize the opponents. It represented the blood of a hero.
What is the "Bloody Shirt"?
500
An African American journalist who was an early leader in the Civil Rights movement.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
500
Public Broadcasting Station.
What is P.B.S?