Ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages
What was Prohibition?
100
a person advocating the extension of voting, especially to women.
What is a suffragist?
100
The smallest state.
What is Rhode Island?
100
1939-1945 (US joined later)
What is WWII?
200
This person used photographer to help expose the living conditions of the lower class in NYC.
Who was Jacob Riis?
200
This amendment effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport, and sale of alcohol
What was the 18th amendment?
200
This person was arrested for trying to vote.
Who was Susan B. Anthony?
200
The American Federation of Labor was founded in Columbus
What is Ohio?
200
1914-1919 (US joined later)
What is WWI?
300
Journalists who expose issues.
What are Muckrakers?
300
Reform organization that led the fight against alcohol
What was the Women's Christian Temperance Movement?
300
This amendment gave women the right to vote but wasn't established until 1920.
What is the 19th amendment?
300
The Erie Canal, built across this state in the 1820s, opened the Midwest to development and helped this states largest city become a worldwide trading center.
What is New York?
300
1955-1975 (US joined later)
What is the Vietnam War?
400
The article/book Jacob Riis wrote
What is, How the other half lives?
400
Organization founded that worked to fight poverty, segregation, and lynchings
What was the National Association of Colored Women?
400
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote (in 1870)
What is the 15th amendment?
400
This state is the birthplace of four United States presidents: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and George Herbert Walker Bush.
What is Massachusetts?
400
1775-1783
What is the Revolutionary War?
500
This person exposed corruption in St. Louis.
Who was Lincoln Steffens?
500
Organization founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony to obtain women's rights to vote.
What was the National Woman Suffrage Association.
500
Many women's groups adopted a _______ ____ ______ strategy rather than a constitutional amendment in order to gain the right to vote for women.
What is state-by-state?
500
Drake Well Museum is the site where Edwin L. Drake drilled the world's first oil well in 1859 and launched the modern petroleum industry.