A ship that blew up in the harbor of Havana starting the Spanish-America War.
What was the USS Maine?
100
Granting women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
100
Halted the sale of contaminated foods & medicines & called for truth in labeling.
What is the Pure Food & Drug Act?
100
Fed poor people in soup kitchens, cared for children in nurseries, & sent "slum brigades" to instruct poor immigrants in middle-class values of hard work & temperance.
What is the Salvation Army?
200
A prohibitionist who walked into saloons to scold customers & smash bottles.
Who is Carry Nation?
200
Chinese rebellion whose groups killed hundreds of missionaries & other foreigners, as well as Chinese converts to Christianity.
What was the Boxer Rebellion?
200
An organization founded in 1896 by African-American women who merged two earlier organizations.
What was National Association of Colored Women (NACW)
200
Act dictating strict cleanliness requirements for meat packers.
What is Meat Inspection Act?
200
Journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of business.
Who were muckrakers?
300
Largest Women's prohibitionist group in the nations history in 1911 boasting 245,000 members.
What is the WCTU?
300
Queen of Hawaii who was overthrown by American business owners with the help of Marines.
Who was Queen Liliuokalani?
300
A leading proponent of a woman's right to vote.
Who was Susan B. Anthony?
300
Law limiting women to a ten hour work day.
What is Oregon Law?
300
Association that opened libaries, sponsored classes, & built swimming pools & handball courts for youth.
What is the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA)?
400
WCTU leader that lead them to become a national organization.
Who is Francis Willard?
400
He was the rebel leader of the Philippines.
Who was Emilio Aguinaldo?
400
Organization founded by Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton which united with another group in 1890 to become the National American Sufferage Association.
What was the National Sufferage Association?
400
Prohibited wealthy railroad owners from fixing high prices by dividing the business in a given area.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
400
Became an advocate for improving the lives of women & children by helping to win passage of the Illinois Factory Act in 1893.
Who was Florence Kelley?
500
Called themselves "the church in action against the saloon" & worked, to pass laws to force people to change & punish those who drink.
What was the Anti-Saloon league?
500
Act which ended military rule & set up a civil government in Puerto Rico.
What was the Foraker Act?
500
Author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
Who was Julia Ward?
500
Act that prohibited the transportation across state lines of goods produced with child labor.
What was the Keating-Owen Act in 1916?
500
The application of scientific principles to increase efficiency in the work place.