A captain of industry who owned 90% of the nation's oil production
Who is JD Rockefeller?
100
Journalists who exposed bad practices of business and corruption in society
What is a muckraker?
100
A famous street in New York that housed the growing music industry.
What is Tin Pan Alley?
100
Program of Relief, Recovery, and Reform programs created by FDR after the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
100
The invasion of this country by Hitler led France and Britain to declare war.
What is the invasion of Poland?
200
She exposed the business practices that eliminated competition by JD Rockefeller's company Standard Oil.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
200
This women's organization led the fight against the use of alcohol in the nation from the mid-1800's to 1920.
What is the Women's Christian Temperance Union?
200
He used the assembly line to improve mass production creating an affordable car.
Who is Henry Ford?
200
Created inexpensive electricity by a series of damns built in the south.
What is TVA?
200
Women replaced men in factories during the war producing goods needed to support the fighting effort. These women were symbolized by this ideal.
What is Rosie the Riveter?
300
He wrote "The Jungle" that exposed meatpacking practices dangerous for consumers that led to the eventual regulation by the government in the Food and Drug Administration and Hepburn Act.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
300
Led by Governor Robert LaFollette of Wisconsin, these additions to voter ability to speak on democratic issues expanded democracy.
What is a referendum, recall, and initiative?
300
A rebirth of African American cultlure and arts.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
300
A New Deal program that still protects and provides assistance for retired citizens.
What is Social Security?
300
During WWI and WWII, the US government funded the war effort by the sale of these documents and used Hollywood stars to promote their sale.
What is buying Liberty and Victory Bonds?
400
Samuel Gompers led this organization in the fight with strikes for fair conditons for workers such as the eight hour day, end to child labor, better conditions, and workmen's compensation.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
400
Founded by WE DuBois to ensure political rights for African Americans and to fight lynching in the US.
What is the NAACP?
400
He wrote "White Christmas" and "God Bless America".
Who is Irving Berlin?
400
When FDR's New Deal came under fire from the Republican Party, he created this scandal by trying to change the make up of the Supreme Court.
What is courtpacking?
400
Americans were anti-German and anti-Japanese in WWII, but placed the Nisei in these holding camps.
What are internment camps?
500
Connected the eastern and western markets for transportation of goods at Promontory Point Utah.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
500
The Progressive Era was a time of reform. This law was passed to limit the creation of trusts and monopolies.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
500
As a result of the 18th amendment, organized crime grew. This famous gangseter was jailed for tax evasion not the many murders he ordered done in Chicago.
Who is Al Capone?
500
The idea that a government must spend money in times of depression that was followed by FDR in his New Deal programs.
What is deficit spending?
500
Japanese citizens experienced discrimination during WWII and experirenced this negative experience.