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laws banning the widespread employment of young children
What is National Child Labor Committee?
100
It taught Americans to plant victory gardens and to use leftovers wisely
What is the Food Administration?
100
People of Latin American descent
Who is in the 1920s became the fastest-growing ethnic minority in the United States?
100
Involved the leasing of government-owned oil deposits to private companies
What is the biggest scandal of the Harding administration?
100
After the World War I, American public opinion generally supported
What is isolationism?
200
Authorized the popular election of U.S. senators
What is the Seventeenth Amendment?
200
employment in a defense factory
What is the major cause of the St. Louis riot in 1917?
200
Two Italian-born anarchists sentenced to death and executed even though there was doubt as to their guilt
Who is Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti?
200
Named conservative advocates of big business to head the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Trade Commission
What is President Harding did this to regulate big business?
200
outlawed war as an instrument of national policy among the signatories
What is The Kellogg-Briand Pact?
300
The Jungle
What is the title of the novel that described the terrible conditions of the meat-packing industry?
300
The Spanish flu epidemic
What is killed five times the number of Americans as died of combat deaths in France?
300
Nineteenth Amendment
What is the amendment to the constitution gave women the right to vote?
300
The Farm Security Administration
What is offered loans to marginal farmers (so they could avoid falling into tenancy) and to tenant farmers (so they could purchase their own farms)?
300
Supported the idea of nonintervention in Latin America
What is America’s “Good Neighbor” Policy?
400
It outlawed price discrimination and interlocking directorates
What is the Clayton Anti-Trust Act?
400
Chicago
What is the race riot killed 38 people and over 500 injured took place in July 1919?
400
The man who prosecuted John Scopes in the Dayton, Tennessee, evolution case for teaching evolution.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
400
wrote Native Son, a story of racial prejudice
Who is Richard Wright?
400
allowed the president to lower tariff rates significantly for countries that did the same for American goods
What is the Trade Agreements Act of 1934?
500
It proposed vigorous anti-trust action to break up corporate concentration
What is Woodrow Wilson’s New Freedom platform?
500
Impact of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and the actions of a “lunatic fringe” in the United States
What is the Red Scare of 1919–1920?
500
He said dubbed the Roaring Twenties as “the Jazz Age”
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
500
the blowing away of millions of acres of topsoil
What is the Dust Bowl?
500
invading the Soviet Union
What is in June 1941, Germany widened the war?