Reformers & Reforms
Good Times; Bad Times
World War I
WWII
Miscellaneous
100
As president, he wanted to conserve more land and natural resources.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
100
These brothers made the first successful powered airplane flight.
Who are the Wright brothers?
100
This war began when European countries competed with one another for land, trade, and military
What is WWI?
100
In Italy, this man becomes a dictator in 1922.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
100
This group of people uncovered shameful conditions in business and other areas of American life.
Who are muckrakers?
200
This group wanted to stop unfair business practices and improve the way government worked.
Who are Progressives?
200
He developed the assembly line and produced the Model T automobile.
Who is Henry Ford?
200
This country joined the Allied Powers in WWI when it intercepted a telegram from Germany to Mexico, and when Germany sunk 3 of its ships.
What is the U.S?
200
In Germany, this dictator took control in 1933.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
200
This Act made food and medicine safer.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
300
This Act improved competition by attacking trusts and forcing them to break up into smaller companies.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
300
This was a period of cultural growth that produced many famous African American artists.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
300
This Amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
300
Italy, Germany, and this country began invading other nations.
What is Japan?
300
This country was backed by the U.S. for its independence so that the U.S. could build a canal.
What is Panama?
400
This Act allowed government inspectors to examine meat to make sure it would not make people sick.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
400
Because of this, the economy went from boom to bust.
What is the stock market crash?
400
This occurred when African American moved from the South to the North for better paying jobs and less discrimination during WWI.
What is the Great Migration?
400
This country and France joined together against Germany and Italy.
What is Britain?
400
This moved from "silents" to "talkie," becoming a popular form of entertainment.
What are movies?
500
This group decided to drain areas of standing water to decrease the mosquito population around the Panama Canal.
Who are doctors Walter Reed & W.C. Gorgas?
500
This Act, passed in 1935, provided payments to the unemployed and the elderly.
What is the Social Security Act?
500
This provided more powerful and deadly weapons during WWI.
What is technology?
500
The U.S. entered WWII on the side of the _________.
What is the Allied Powers?
500
The severe drought in the Great Plains was nicknamed this.
What is the Dust Bowl?
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