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100
The party that dominated national politics in the decades following the Civil War.
What is the Republican Party?
100
The only country from which immigration to the US was legally banned between the 1880s and 1924.
What is China?
100
American sugar planters overthrew the government of this island nation before it was annexed to the US.
What is Hawai'i?
100
The political party that passed the Pacific Railroads Act, Morrill Tariff, Morrill Land Grant Act, and the Homestead Act.
What is the Republican Party?
100
Many women's rights activists opposed the passage of this amendment because it did not extend suffrage to women.
What is the 15th Amendment?
200
This election featured three candidates that could be called progressive and one socialist.
What is the election of 1912?
200
Hiram Revels took this man's seat as a senator from Mississippi.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
200
The US warship that was destroyed in Havana Harbor in 1898, helping to precipitate the Spanish-American War.
What is the USS Maine?
200
An arrangement in which a farmer rents his/her farmland.
What is tenant farming?
200
The first territory/state to allow women's suffrage.
What is Wyoming?
300
This party adopted the Omaha Platform in 1892.
What is the Populist (or People's) Party?
300
The foremost anti-lynching activist at the turn of the twentieth century.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
300
He authored a corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
300
For about twenty years, minimum wages were only legal for them.
Who are female workers?
300
She was the founder of Hull House, a leading social reformer, and a pacifist.
Who is Jane Addams?
400
This presidential candidate lost the 1928 election because of "prejudice, prohibition, and prosperity."
Who is Al Smith?
400
The first black heavyweight champion of the world, arrested for violating the Mann Act.
Who is Jack Johnson?
400
The sinking of this ship led many Americans to call for war with Germany in 1915.
What is the Lusitania?
400
The economist who advocated deficit spending to counteract recessions.
Who is John Maynard Keynes?
400
She founded the National Women's Party, which led the push for the Equal Rights Amendment.
Who is Alice Paul?
500
Before being Secretary of Commerce and President, he headed up the Food Administration during WWI.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
500
Marcus Garvey's shipping company.
What is the Black Star Line?
500
The policy that Secretary of State John Hay announced with regard to China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
500
This New Deal agency paid farmers not to farm and destroyed surplus agricultural products to boost prices.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Administration?
500
A women's organization that offered decals to be placed on products produced by manufacturers with high labor standards.
What is the National Consumers' League?
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