A Union is an organized group of people who share the same profession. Unions work to get fair pay and treatment for workers against management (the bosses).
100
Define "suffrage"
Suffrage is the right to vote.
100
What does WCTU stand for, and what is it?
The Women's Christian Temperance Union, a group dedicated to ending alcohol abuse.
100
What is a muckraker?
A muckraker is a journalist who investigates problems in society with the goal of getting readers to do something about those problems.
100
What problem did Mother Jones primarily work on?
Child Labor
200
In what industry did most of the people in the Uprising of the 20,000 work?
Garment trades.
200
Who founded the National Women's Party?
Alice Paul & Lucy Burns
200
What was Prohibition?
Prohibition was the time period in America when the production and sale of alcohol was banned.
200
What was the name of Nelly Bly's book?
Nelly Bly's book was called Ten Days in a Madhouse
200
Who did John Muir convince to create our National Park system?
President Teddy Roosevelt
300
What Union came in to help the striking workers in the Bread & Roses strike?
The IWW (International Workers of the World)
300
Which Amendment gave women the right to vote, and in what year was it passed?
The 19th Amendment, 1920.
300
What was the 18th Amendment, and when was it passed?
The 18th Amendment banned the production and sale of alcohol. It was passed in 1919.
300
What was the name of Jane Addams' Settlement House in Chicago?
Hull House
300
Why was Henry Ford able to charge less for his cars?
He used assembly line production in his plants, which allowed cars to be made more cheaply and efficiently, which in turn allowed him to lower the price of the product.
400
Approximately how many people were killed in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
146
(Full credit if you are between 140 and 150)
400
What strategies did the National Women's party use to draw attention to the suffrage cause?
The held protests outside the White House for days on end. Eventually, many of them got arrested, including Alice Paul, who went on a hunger strike.
400
What was 21st Amendment, and when was it passed?
The 21st Amendment repealed Prohibition/the 18th Amendment. It was passed in 1933.
400
What two laws were passed as a result of Upton Sinclair's work?
The Meat Inspection Act
&
The Safe Food and Drug Act
400
What company did Ida Tarbell investigate?
John D Rockefeller's Standard Oil
500
What happened to the families of striking coal miners in Ludlow, Colorado?
The National Guard attacked their encampment of tents and killed at least a dozen people, most of them children.
500
Who was President when women finally got the right to vote?
Woodrow Wilson
500
Illegal bars had two different names during Prohibition. Name one.
speakeasies and blind tigers
500
What organization did W.E.B Du Bois help start?
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
500
What was Robert La Follette's most important political reform in Wisconsin?