We're Just Farmers
What are the sharecroppers?
Upton Sinclair was the muckraker who wrote this book which exposed the meatpacking industry and the troubles associated with it.
What is the Jungle
This amendment created graduated income tax
What is the 16th amendment?
Unlike the previous periods, the "New Immigrants" of the late 19th century came from
What is Asia, Eastern Europe, and Central Europe?
This sport became America's Pastime in the early 20th century
What is the baseball?
What is the Omaha Platform?
Civil Rights leader known for encouraging the African American community to "cast down their buckets" in his "Atlanta Compromise" Speech.
Who is Booker T Washington
What is 19th amendment?
The first-ever U.S. law that restricted immigration
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Political machine Tammany Hall took over what American city?
What is New York City?
By the late 19th century, farmers were no longer practicing subsistence farming, they were instead doing
What is commercial farming?
This Progressive Era reformer opened the Hull House in Chicago to provide social services to immigrants.
This amendment called for the direct election of senators
What is the 17th amendment?
Investigative journalists who exposed awful working conditions, living conditions, and corruption
Who are Muckrakers?
This organization was one of the earliest promoters of athletic fitness and muscular Christianity.
What is the YMCA?
William Jennings Bryan ran for President in 1896 representing these TWO political parties
Who are the Democrats & Populists?
This US president helped to create the Panama Canal, was known as being a trust buster and a conservationist.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
These 2 amendments created prohibition and also dissolved it.
What are the 18th and 21st amendments?
Run by local bosses, gave city residents assistance and jobs in return for their votes
What are political machines?
Teddy Roosevelt ran for a third term under the Progressive Party, also sometimes called this.
What is the Bull Moose Party?
What is the unlimited coinage of silver?
This person was jailed during the Pullman Strike, and founded the Socialist Party.
When was the last amendment passed in the United States?
What is 1992?
These community centers provided classes, social events, and financial help to immigrant communities
What are settlement houses?
This woman founded the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
Who is Frances Willard?