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100
Provided the American government with the means to raise an army from the general population.
What is the Selective Service Act?
100
Was President of the United States during World War I.
What is Woodrow Wilson?
100
This was the name given to the circumstances whereby a member of the President's Cabinet was sent to jail.
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
100
A movement to reform some of the worst aspects of early 20th c. American city life.
What is Progressivism?
100
Caused the deaths of 150 people and focused government interest on workplace safety.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire?
200
The 19th Amendment to the Constitution provided for this.
What is Prohibition?
200
Started the Planned Parenthood Association and distributed birth control information.
What is Margaret Sanger?
200
A radical group of trade unionists.
What is the IWW?
200
The fear of foreign radicals immigrating to the United States in the 1920s prompted this.
What is the Red Scare?
200
A period of great musical and literary achievement by African-Americans.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
300
Gave the Department of Agriculture the ability to build reservoirs and irrigation systems in the American West.
What is the Newlands Reclamation Act?
300
The immediate cause of the First World War.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
300
The political party that ran Teddy Roosevelt for President in 1912?
What is the Bull Moose Party?
300
An effort to win equal rights for women in the workplace.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment?
300
The destruction of this passenger ship paved the way for American entrance into the First World War.
What is the Lusitania?
400
Helped to halve the reparations payments that Germany owed to France and England through U.S. loans.
What is the Dawes Plan?
400
The head of the financial industry at the turn of the 20th c.
What is J.P. Morgan?
400
One of the most famous Progressive state governors.
Who is Robert M. LaFollette?
400
An effort to increase friendly relationships with foreign countries for the advantage it gives to American trade.
What is dollar diplomacy?
400
Was the first legal attempt to deal with the teaching of the theory of evolution in the public scools.
What is the Scopes Trial?
500
Allowed the Interstate Commerce Commission to set freight rates and ban "sweetheart deals" with favored clients of the railroads?
What is the Hepburn Act?
500
A leader of the early civil rights movement who rejected Booker Washington's policy of accomodationism.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
500
This idea was one of Wilson's Fourteen Points that he presented at the Paris Peace Conference after WWI.
What is the League of Nations?
500
A belief that progress can be made in improving the social conditions of mankind.
What is Reform Darwinism?
500
The reason that Teddy Roosevelt encouraged a staged "revolution" in Columbia.
What is the Panama Canal?