Progressivism
What is muckraking journalism?
Journalist attacks on established institutions and leaders as corrupt
Who split the Republican party in the election of 1912?
Roosevelt
Which party did Americans hate after the Bolshevik revolution?
Communists
Who was the president after Harding?
Coolidge
What economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S. and other countries, roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930s?
The Great Depression
What are two influential examples of muckraking journalism?
Souls of Black Folk, The Light of Truth, Pilgrim's Progress, The Shame of Cities
What part was Roosevelt apart of in the election of 1912?
People's Party
What were the names of two Italian anarchists that were given an unfair trial and convicted of murder in 1920?
Sacco and Vanzetti
Which party was Coolidge apart of?
Republican
What day began the Great Depression in 1929?
Black Tuesday
What industrial disaster in New York in 1911 kill 146 workers and spurred growth of Ladies' Garmet workers' Union?
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
In which event did a small party of US sailors get captured and lead to the US seize of Vera Cruz?
Tampico Incident
Which act in 1921 put a limit on immigrants entering the US?
Emergency Quota Act
Which international agreement outlawed war?
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Which first lady was extremely involved in bettering conditions for women and black people?
Eleanor Roosevelt
What was one of the three parts of Roosevelt's "Square Deal"?
1. Control corporations
2. Consumer protection
3. Conservation of natural resources
Why did Wilson withdraw from Mexico in 1917?
Bc US threatened by German navy
Which amendment banned alcohol?
18th Amendment
What Naval oil reserve in Wyoming gave its name to one of the major Harding administration scandals?
Teapot Dome
What was the name of Roosevelt's program to combat economic depression?
New Deal
What is the WCTU and what did they advocate for?
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Prohibition of alcohol
Which message between Mexico and Germany led to US entry into WWI?
Zimmerman Telegram
Who is the famous mobster from Chicago during the prohibition?
Al Capone
What extremely high tariff act killed international trade and deepened the Great Depression?
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
What event inspired the Grapes of Wrath?
Great Dust Bowl