Famous Faces
His company Standard Oil quickly made him the richest man in American history.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
19th
This was the weaker version of a law intended to control trusts.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
Women changed their tune in the 1920s when this type of rebellious girl came on the scene wearing less conservative clothing and more make up.
What is a Flapper?
Roosevelt's style of diplomacy.
What is "Big Stick" Diplomacy?
Upton Sinclair really turned American stomachs when he published this book, exposing the horrors of the Chicago meat-packing industry.
What is The Jungle?
13th
This act was meant to prevent all immigration from a specific Asian country.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Completed in 1869 in Utah, this spanned the width of the continent and transformed interstate commerce in America.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Wilson's plan for the prevention of future war.
What are the 14 Points?
She became the first female millionaire in American history selling her line of beauty products aimed at African American women.
Who is Madame C.J. Walker?
18th
What is prohibition of alcohol?
These were common in the South and enforced the key idea behind Plessy v. Ferguson.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Who are Nativists?
What is the Bull Moose (Progressive) Party?
He lead a group of former African American slaves to areas of Kansas and Oklahoma on an "exodus" to escape racial violence and laws.
17th
What is direct election of U.S. Senators?
This act, unsuccessfully challenged by Charles Schenck, suppressed freedom of speech in America during WWI.
What were the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
These were intended to destroy Native American cultures and replace it with White/European traditions and language.
What are Native American Assimilation/Boarding Schools
The main cause for American entry into the Spanish American War.
What is the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine?
He was a famous Socialist labor union leader who ran for U.S. President five times, once from prison!
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
16th
What is federal income tax?
The Pendleton Civil Service was intended to put an end to this corrupt system of appointment.
What is the spoils system?
This person was a famous anti-interventionist.
Who was Andrew Carnegie, Jane Addams, or Mark Twain?
This president's compromise in 1877 both gained him the office, and ended the Reconstruction Era
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?