Progressive Era Reforms
The Roaring Twenties
The Great Depression
New Deal Programs
People and Movements
100
This president was known for his "Square Deal" and trust-busting policies.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
100
This type of music dominated the 1920s and was closely associated with African American culture.
What is jazz?
100
This president was in office when the Great Depression began.
Who is president Herbert Hoover?
100
This New Deal program insures bank deposits.
What is the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)?
100
He made the decision to use atomic bombs on Japan during World War II, leading to the end of the war in the Pacific.
Who is Harry Truman?
200
Passed in 1890, this federal law aimed to prevent monopolies and promote competition by making it illegal to restrain trade or attempt to create unfair market dominance.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
200
This 1920 amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
200
This date marks the stock market crash that started the Great Depression.
What is October 29, 1929 (Black Tuesday)?
200
This 1935 New Deal law protected workers’ rights to unionize and bargain collectively, and led to the rise of organized labor.
What is the Wagner Act?
200
This African American leader promoted self-help, education, and racial uplift in his famous Atlanta Compromise speech.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
300
Ratified in 1913, this amendment changed the way U.S. senators were elected, shifting the power from state legislatures to the voters themselves.
What is the 17th Amendment?
300
This movement helped pass the 16th amendment in 1919, banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages, but was ultimately repealed in 1933 due to widespread illegal activity and public disillusionment.
What is the Prohibition?
300
These makeshift shantytowns were named after the president blamed for the Depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
300
This program paid farmers to reduce crop production.
What is the AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Administration)?
300
She was an investigative journalist whose work The History of the Standard Oil Company helped expose monopolistic practices.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
400
This law, passed in 1906, aimed to ensure safer food and medicine for Americans.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
400
This cultural movement celebrated African American achievements in art, music, and literature.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
400
This environmental disaster during the 1930s worsened farming conditions in the Great Plains.
What is the Dust Bowl?
400
This program provided jobs for young men in conservation projects.
What is the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)?
400
This reformer and sociologist was the first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard and co-founded the NAACP.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
500
This investigative journalism practice aimed to expose corruption and social injustice.
.What is muckraking?
500
This controversial 1925 trial debated the teaching of evolution in schools.
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
500
This risky practice of borrowing money to buy stocks, combined with rampant market speculation, contributed to the 1929 stock market crash, triggering the onset of the Great Depression.
What is buying on credit (margin) and speculation?
500
This act, still in effect today, provides financial assistance to the elderly and disabled.
What is the Social Security Act?
500
She co-organized the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls in 1848 and authored the "Declaration of Sentiments," demanding equal rights for women.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?