PROGRESSIVE ERA
This author’s book The Jungle exposed unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry.
Answer: Who is Upton Sinclair?
This was the name of the alliance between Britain, France, and Russia during WWI.
Answer: What is the Triple Entente?
This U.S. president proposed the League of Nations and the 14 Points.
Answer: Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This term describes the policy of building up a country’s armed forces.
Answer: What is militarism?
This term refers to the cultural, artistic, and social explosion centered in Harlem in the 1920's and 1930's.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This movement fought to grant women the right to vote.
Answer: What is suffrage?
This British ship was sunk by German U-boats, killing 128 Americans.
Answer: What is the Lusitania?
This individual assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Answer: Who is Gavrilo Princip?
This act required men to register for the draft during WWI.
Answer: What is the Selective Service Act?
This genre, which emerged during the Harlem Renaissance, combined blues and improvisation and was performed in clubs like the Cotton Club.
What is jazz?
This reform allowed citizens to propose legislation directly.
Answer: What is the initiative?
This telegram proposed a German alliance with Mexico against the U.S.
Answer: What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This group planned Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination.
Answer: What is the Black Hand Society?
This term refers to extreme pride and loyalty to one’s nation.
Answer: What is nationalism?
This famous nightclub was a hub for performers like Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway, though it had a segregated audience.
What is the Cotton Club?
This president’s domestic program was called the "Square Deal."
Answer: Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
The assassination of this archduke ignited WWI.
Answer: Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This organization was proposed to promote global peace after WWI.
Answer: What is the League of Nations?
This 18th Amendment outlawed the sale and consumption of alcohol.
Answer: What is Prohibition?
This migration of African Americans from the rural South to Northern cities contributed to the Harlem Renaissance.
This civil rights organization, founded in 1909, fought against racial discrimination.
Answer: What is the NAACP?
This treaty ended WWI and imposed harsh penalties on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This U.S. president’s policies during the Progressive Era included trust-busting and conservation.
Answer: Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
These secret agreements between nations were a major cause of WWI.
Answer: What are alliances?
This artistic movement inspired Harlem Renaissance artists with its focus on Black pride and African heritage.
What is the New Negro Movement?