Presidents
This was the nickname given to tent cities that sprung up during the Great Depression that also offered a critique of the President's failure to address the plight of the homeless and unemployed
What are "Hoovervilles"
This legislation, enacted in 1887, was intended to break apart tribal lands by partitioning them into individual plots.
What is the Dawes Act? (or General Allotment Act)
This small, fierce organizer of the United Mine Workers also took up the cause of child labor, and organized a children's march to Washington in 1903.
Who is Mother Jones?
This company was responsible for the deaths of 146 employees, the majority young women trapped inside the building, on March 25, 1911.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?
Founded in 1912 this federal organization sought to regulate child labor and promote maternal and child health.
What is the US Children's Bureau?
This US President believed US expansionism to be a measure of both manliness and heroism.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This President used the metaphor "as long as grass grows or water runs" to frame the forced relocation of Shawnee, Creek, Choctaw, and Cherokee People as a "benevolent" act.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This woman was the first to serve in a cabinet-level position in a presidential administration.
Who is Frances Perkins?
This IWW labor organizer was tortured and hanged in Butte, Montana by an "unnamed gang" in 1917.
Who is Frank Little?
The passage of compulsory education laws could be said to be the primary cause of this juvenile crime.
What is truancy?
This president called an impromptu press conference to redirect attention from Fannie Lou Hamer's testimony at the Democratic National Convention
Who is President Johnson?
This is the name the Blackfeet people gave to their sacred lands within and alongside what is now Glacier National Park.
What is the Backbone of the World?
Born to an enslaved Black mother and a white plantation owner father, this woman won a legal battle for her freedom in Virginia in 1656.
Who is Elizabeth Key?
1872 marks a key moment in labor history when 100,000 workers in New York won the fight for this workers' right.
What is the 8-hour day?
The first child protection laws were based on these laws.
What are laws for the prevention of cruelty to animals?
This President initially promised that the US would remain neutral in World War I, then launched an aggressive campaign to support US entry into war in 1917.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This 1934 legislative act's stated purpose was to end federal paternalism toward American Indian people and bring an end to the allotment system.
What is the Indian Reorganization Act (or Wheeler-Howard Act)?
This Black female activist was a sharecropper and instrumental in getting the 1965 Voting Rights Act passed.
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer?
This event lead to the beginnings of labor resistance due to the substantial loss of life that diminished the workforce.
What is the Black Death?
This industrial school was opened in 1915 to provide an alternative to jail and prison for Black girls involved in the justice system.
What is the Virginia Industrial School?
This President capitalized on the "welfare queen" image to legitimize directing funds away from welfare and instead expanded the US military budget
Who is President Reagan?
Passed in 1978, this legislation fundamentally challenged the long history of removal of Indian children from their families, communities, and culture.
What is the Indian Child Welfare Act?
This Black female activist was instrumental in nurturing new leaders via the Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee and was deeply committed to empowering local people
Who is Ella Baker?
This New Deal legislation guaranteed workers the right to organize and engage in collective bargaining.
What is the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (aka Wagner Act)
This social reformer was the mastermind behind the orphan train movement.
Who is Charles Loring Brace?