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Upton Sinclair was the muckraker who wrote this book which exposed the meatpacking industry and the troubles associated with it.  

The Jungle

100

The movement of approximately 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West in the late 19th to mid 20th Centuries.  

The Great Migration

100

Two examples of Social Changes during the 1920's that became new Amendments to the Constitution.

What is the 18th and 19th Amendments.

100

Black Tuesday refers to which event that triggered the beginning of the Great Depression.

What is the Stock Market Crash

100

Japan bombed this US naval and air force base.  The US responded by declaring war on Japan and officially entering WWII on the side of the Allies.

Pearl Harbor

200
Civil Rights leader known for encouraging the African American community to "cast down their buckets" in his "Atlanta Compromise" Speech.
Booker T Washington
200
The British passenger ship destroyed by a German u-boat submarine.  This event contributed to Americans wanting to get involved in WWI.  
The Lusitania
200

Italian immigrants charged with murder and robbery.  Convicted on circumstantial evidence, many believed they had been framed for the crime because of their anarchist and pro-union activities.  

Sacco and Vanzetti

200

The Wagner Act, Social Security and Fair Labor Standards Act are all examples of which part of FDR's New Deal.

What is Reform

200

This officially ended the United States policy of neutrality and isolation.

What is the Attack on Pearl Harbor

300

A change to the Constitution that gave citizens the power to directly elect their Senators to Congress.  

What is the 17th Amendment

300
The discovery of this disclosed Germany's promise to help Mexico attack the US if the US declared war on Germany.
Zimmerman Telegram
300
This was triggered by the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.  Americans were very paranoid and scared that Communism would overtake America.  
The Red Scare
300

How did FDR address the problem with Banking when he first came into office as President.

What is the Emergency Banking Act

300
The name given to the creation of the atomic bombs that were dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki 
The Manhattan Project
400

This US president helped to create the Panama Canal, was known as being a trust buster and a conservationist.  

Teddy Roosevelt

400
Great Britain, France and Italy.  We entered the war with the intention of helping them.  
The Allied Powers
400
This leader during the Harlem Renaissance encouraged a modern "Back to Africa" movement and founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA).  
Marcus Garvey
400

A weather disaster that led to the increased migration of Farmers and Okies westward to places like California.

What is the Dust Bowl

400

A work program created by the US to bring Mexican agricultural laborers into the US to work on farms in the West.

What is the Bracero Program

500

Journalist during the Progressive Era who exposed the evils of industrialization and urbanization.

Who are Muckrakers

500
This Supreme Court decision declared that the federal government could limit the 1st Amendment right of "freedom of speech" in time of war and if there was a "clear and present danger."
Schenck v. US
500
These were passed to reduce the number of "New" immigrants.  Were a response to nativism.
Quota Acts
500

The president at the beginning of the Great Depression who was blamed for not doing enough to help the people.

Who is Herbert Hoover

500
Provided WWII veterans with low interest mortgages, college tuition, and vocational training.  
GI Bill