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100
Discount Shopping day that follows American Thanksgiving, which is always on a Thursday.
What is Black Friday ?
100
An Act that started on December 23, 1913.
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
100
Purple and Gold are to Ypsi High as ____ and_____ are to New Tech .
What is lime green and electric blue?
100
The organization was a pioneering coalition of trade unionists, feminists, and social reformers, oriented toward changing the American political and economic systems.
What is the National Labor Union?
100
He is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), called "the Great American Novel".
Who is Mark Twain?
200
A Term coined by Mark Twain to describe the post- Reconstruction era .
What is Gilded Age ?
200
For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes.
What is Pure Food and Drug Act ?
200
A free video sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos .
What is YouTube ?
200
A union established in 1869,its founder was Uriah Stevens.
What is Knights of Labor?
200
She wrote short stories for both children and adults which were published in such magazines as Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, the Century, and Harper's Youth's Companion.
Who is Kate Chopin?
300
Group of U.S. whiskey distillers who defrauded the government of taxes.
What is Whiskey Ring ?
300
This law was motivated for protecting Americans and their diet.
What is the Meat Inspection ?
300
27th President of the United States (1909-1913)
Who is William Howard Taft?
300
One of the first federations of labor unions in the United States. It was founded in 1886 by an alliance of craft unions disaffected from the Knights of Labor, a national labor association.
What is A.F of L.?
300
Covered the Russo-Japanese War for the Hearst newspapers in 1904, and in 1914, he covered the Mexican Revolution for Collier’s.
Who is Jack London?
400
The name given to Republicans that voted for President Rover Cleveland in the 1884 election.
What is Mugwumps ?
400
Created an Interstate Commerce Commission to oversee the conduct of the railroad industry.
What is Interstate Commerce Act ?
400
Young Professor of political science and became President of Princeton in 1902.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
400
The most famous and far reaching labor conflict in a period of severe economic depression and social unrest,
What is the Pullman Strike?
400
A nineteenth century woman known as a champion of the American Indian.
Who is Helen Hunt Jackson?
500
A political system governed by the wealthy people .
What is Plutocracy
500
The principal law expressing our national commitment to a free market economy in which competition free from private and governmental restraints leads to the best results for consumers.
What is Sherman Antitrust Act ?
500
An American landscape painter and print maker, best known for his marine subjects.
Who is Winslow Homer?
500
The post-Civil War political strategy of appealing to voters by recalling the passions and hardships of the recent war.
What is the "Bloody Shirt"?
500
Born in Baltimore on 20th September, 1878.
Who is Upton Sinclair?