The Progressive Era
This 1906 novel by Upton Sinclair led to reforms in food safety.
What is The Jungle?
The Zimmerman Telegram proposed an alliance between Germany and this country during WWI.
What is Mexico?
This plan gave billions in aid to rebuild Western Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This 1954 Supreme Court case declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This scandal involved a break-in at the DNC headquarters and led to a presidential resignation.
What is Watergate?
This 1913 amendment allowed for the direct election of Senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This is the phrase Franklin Roosevelt used to describe the US as a major supplier of military aid to Allied nations at the beginning of World War II.
What is the Arsenal of Democracy?
This policy aimed to stop the domino effect of one country falling to communism and then others around it falling as well.
What is the Truman Doctrine OR containment?
After leaving the Nation of Islam in March 1964, he formed the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
Who is Malcolm X?
What is Reaganonics?
This woman founded Hull House in Chicago and was a leader in the settlement house movement.
Who is Jane Addams?
This U.S. law during WWI restricted freedom of speech and was upheld in Schenck v. United States.
What is the Espionage Act (or Sedition Act)?
This 1962 Cold War event was the closest the U.S. and USSR came to nuclear war. It happened 90 miles south of the United States.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This law banned literacy tests and allowed federal oversight of voter registration.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This 2001 law expanded government surveillance powers in the name of national security.
What is the USA PATRIOT Act?
DAILY DOUBLE
This Danish immigrant and author documented the terrible conditions in the tenements of New York City, revealing "How the Other Half Lives."
Who is Jacob Riis?
In 1988, the US provided a $20,000 cash payment to the survivors of this practice during World War II. President Reagan said, "here we admit a wrong; here we reaffirm our commitment as a nation to equal justice under the law."
What is Japanese Internment?
This -ism was the political practice of publicizing accusations of disloyalty or subversion without regard to evidence. It came from the name of a Wisconsin senator who claimed he had lists of Communists in the State Department and the Army in the early 1950s.
What is McCarthyism?
Following a raid at this establishment in 1969, protesters confronted police by forming a Rockette-style kickline. The protests galvanized the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement.
What is the Stonewall Inn?
The disputed 2000 presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore hinged on a recount of ballots in this state.
What is Florida?
This 1911 factory fire killed 146 workers and led to major labor reforms.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
DAILY DOUBLE
This WWII strategy used by the U.S. in the Pacific aimed to capture key islands.
What is island hopping?
This economic alliance of communist nations countered NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This act expanded civil rights protections in housing. It was passed just one week after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination.
What is the Fair Housing Act of 1968?
When asked about her foreign policy experience in 2008, this governor and Republican Vice Presidential candidate said, "you can see Russia from Alaska."
Who is Sarah Palin?