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Hail to the Chief
All that glitters...
Southern Hospitality
None of your business
Flogressivism
100
he was elected in 1868, primarily by the votes of former slaves
Who is U.S. Grant
100
Boss Tweed, notorious New York City political boss, landed in jail in large part due to this man's poltical cartoons
Who is Thomas Nast
100
When Reconstruction ended, Southern states began passing these laws, which were designed to create a segregated society
What are Jim Crow Laws
100
This man was the first American billionaire, he made his money by consolidating the oil industry
Who is John Rockefeller
100
This book led to the passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act
What is The Jungle
200
He sent the Navy to Panama to "observe" the rebellion against Colombia
Who is Theodore Roosevelt
200
This scandal involving railroad construction kickbacks rocked the Grant Administration in 1872
What is Credit Mobilier
200
In this famous 1896 Supreme Court case, the justices ruled that "separate but equal" facilities were Constitutional
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
200
This "invention" allowed U.S. commerce to grow dramatically during the mid 1800s by linking the nation together
What is the railroad
200
journalists who believed their jobs was to expose societies ills were known as
What are muckrakers
300
His 1912 campaign was based upon tariff reduction, antitrust legislation and monetary reform
Who is Woodrow Wilson
300
During the Gilded Age, the main difference between the Republican and Democratic Parties involved
What are cultural and ethnic divisions
300
Requiring voters to pay for the right to vote
What are poll taxes
300
The main reason Americans left the farm for the growing cities in the post Civil War era
What are industrial jobs
300
Progressives aimed to restrain not only the big trusts but also this other "subversive" element
What are socialists
400
His "New Deal" was designed to help end the Great Depression
Who is Franklin Roosevelt
400
This act, passed during the Gilded Age, required civil servants to actually know what they were doing
What is the Pendleton Act
400
The idea that a "talented tenth" would lead blacks to equality was the view of
Who is W.E.B Dubois
400
This policy, first introduced by the U.S., was designed to keep China open to all foreign businesses
What is the Open Door Policy
400
The reform policies of Theodore Roosevelt were known as the
What is the Square Deal
500
The Compromise of 1877 put this man in the White House and also ended southern Reconstruction
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes
500
During the Gilded Age, Americans began migrating from the country to the
What are cities
500
This region of the country did not embrace the industrialization of the mid 1800s and instead remained primarily agricultural
What is the south
500
Critics dubbed the foreign policy of William Howard Taft as
What is dollar diplomacy
500
Theodore Roosevelt attacked the trusts in an attempt to convince America that this group still ran the country
What is the government