Politics
The amendment that led to the direct election of senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
The Author of “The Jungle.”
Who was Upton Sinclair?
The steel titan who wrote Wealth.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
This man replaced Czar Nicolas II after the war.
What was Vladimir Lenin?
Political bosses traded favors or food to immigrants for these up through the Progressive Era.
What are votes?
Supreme Court case that officially legalized segregation.
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
President who believed in "rugged manhood" and protecting the environment.
Who was Teddy Roosevelt?
This man owned Standard Oil.
Who was John D Rockefeller?
It was believed that this would draw the United States into wars in European countries, so Congress rejected to ratify it.
What Treaty of Versailles?
WW1 was hoped to end with this idea under Woodrow Wilson.
What is peace without victory?
Upheld the Espionage and Sedition Acts
What are the Schenck v US?
An act passed in 1906, which required food companies to list all of the ingredients on their products.
What was the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This was the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic.
Who was Charles Lindbergh?
This was the deadliest area of the war.
What was the Western Front?
The court case that decided the battle of Fundamentalism vs Modernism.
What was the Scopes' Trial?
This led to the South creating Literacy Tests and Grandfather Clauses
What is the 15th Amendment?
Progressive who passed amendments like women's suffrage and income tax.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
The symbol of freedom in the 1920s allowed Americans to travel.
What is the Model T?
The way the United States made money off of a global war.
What was selling grain to countries?
The city that was owned by Al Capone in the 1920s.
What is Chicago?
All persons born or naturalized in the US guarantees equal protection of a law as they are citizens of the country.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Workers joined these groups to try and collectively bargain with big business.
What are labor unions?
Woodrow Wilson hoped to use technology and government programs to minimize this aspect of producing goods.
What is the human cost?
Adopted after WW1, this put the burden of the world's economy on the United States.
What was Dawes Plan?
This was the prosecutor in the Scopes' Trial who had run for president three separate times in the 1890s.
Who was William Jennings Bryan?