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Gilded Age
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The Great Depression & the New Deal
100
This particular industry was a major recipient of government funding during its boom-time of building in the 1870s.
What are railroads
100
President of the US in the early 1900s most known for Progressive actions
Who is Theodore Roosevelt
100
The provision of the Treaty of Versailles that President Wilson was most adamant about following precisely.
What is the League of Nations
100
This movement in the 1920s developed into an outpouring of African-American artistic and literary creativity.
What is the Harlem Renaissance
100
October 29th 1929 became known as this day due to the massive sell-off of stocks and no one willing to buy them.
What is "Black Tuesday"
200
This 1896 Supreme Court case established the controversial precedent of "separate but equal" in the US
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
200
This expansion of the Monroe Doctrine to now include American military influence into the Caribbean and Central/South America became known as this.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary
200
This document exposed a German plot to enlist Mexico into an alliance with Germany in a war against the US
What is the Zimmerman Telegram
200
An "unintended effect" of the passage of this Constitutional Amendment was giving organized crime a ways and means of gaining wealth and power.
What is Prohibition
200
The demand for the payment of money owed to veterans of the Great War led to a march on Washington DC in 1932 by this group
What is the Bonus Army
300
"Competition is a law of nature...if we do not like survival of the fittest, we have only one possible alternative: survival of the unfittest." This quote is an example of which philosophy?
What is Social Darwinism
300
When it was passed in 1890, this law actually had very little impact in accomplishing its chief goal: that is, gov't regulation over the power of large corporations.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
300
Name two reasons why 1917 was a significant year in WWI.
What are the Russian Revolution/Russia's exit from the war and the entrance of the United States.
300
Fear of Communism and radicalism led to a series of government "raids" authorized by this Attorney General in 1920
Who is A. Mitchell Palmer
300
This law created during the First New Deal sought to lessen the effects of the Depression by paying farmers to cut production, and in some cases destroy their own crops.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
400
"From the beginning of the settlement of America, the frontier regions have exercised a steady influence toward democracy...American democracy is fundamentally the outcome of the experience of the American people in dealing with the West." This argument was created by who?
Who is Frederick Jackson Turner
400
The eight hour workday became a prominent demand by organized labor leaders in the Omaha Platform of this upstart political party in the 1892 election.
What is the Populist Party
400
What is the name of the Serbian assassin who killed the Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Who is Gavrilo Princip
400
The rise of advertising saw the creation of a new market. Instead of trying to producing new products, we shifted focus to producing what?
What is new consumers?
400
The crisis in this industry was probably the most pressing that Roosevelt faced as he entered office in 1933. He responded by declaring a "holiday" to prevent more from closing.
What is the banking industry
500
"You shall not crucify mankind upon a Cross of Gold!" This quote was given by which Democratic-Populist candidate in the 1896 election?
Who is William Jennings Bryant
500
Settlement Houses developed during the Progressive Era to provide services to the community and a "remedy to poverty". What is the name of the most famous Settlement house and its founder?
What is the Hull House and Jane Addams?
500
Name the two groups advocating for Woman's Suffrage during WWI and their respective leaders.
What are the NWP (National Women's Party) - Alice Paul and/or Lucy Burns - and the NAWSA (National American Woman's Suffrage Association) - Carrie Chapman Catt
500
The trial, conviction, and eventual execution of these two supposed "immigrant radicals" demonstrated the extent of the first Red Scare in the 1920s
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti
500
Roosevelt's economic policies that he utilized during the Great Depression were mainly the ideas of this British economist.
Who is John Maynard Keynes