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100
Prohibition is sometimes referred to as both the high and low point of this movement/era
What is The Progressive Era?
100
This author and his book portrayed "Okies" during the Dust Bowl
Who is John Steinbeck and what is " The Grapes of Wrath"?
100
Provided WW2 veterans with education and housing benefits
What is The GI Bill?
100
She wrote "The Feminine Mystique"
Who is Betty Friedan?
100
This program is well described by "conservation, trust-busting and consumer protection"
What is TR's Square Deal?
200
Two reasons for the sharp rise in immigration up to 1910
What are financial gain and political freedom?
200
New Deal Policy that expanded the rights of unions
What is The Wagner Act?
200
He was a target of McCarthy, Nixon, Whittaker Chambers and Roy Cohn
Who is Alger Hiss?
200
First woman appointed to SCOTUS (by Ronald Reagan)
Who is Sandra Day O'Conner?
200
Two Presidents who did not seek reelection due to wars in Asia during the Cold War?
Who are Harry Truman and LBJ?
300
This author and his book inspired the Pure Food and Drug Act
Who is Upton Sinclair and what is The Jungle?
300
National Bank Holiday, National Industrial Recovery Act, Agricultural Adjustment Act, and the Glass-Steagall Act were all part of this
What is FDR's First Hundred Days or First New Deal?
300
The two most vocal critics of FDR, who used the radio to attack him from the left and from the right
Who are Huey P. Long and Father Charles Coughlin?
300
the Tet Offensive, deaths of RFK and MLK, and DNC riots
What happened in 1968?
300
The father of the modern skyscraper
Who is Louis H. Sullivan
400
WEB Du Bois was the only African-American at the founding of this group
What is the NAACP?
400
This disastrous economic theory of Andrew Mellon's was replicated during the Reagan Administration and the George W. Bush Administration, with the same depressing results
What is Trickle-Down Economics?
400
Where the first federally mandated desegregation of the civil service occurred
What is The Army? During the Korean War, President Truman desegregated the army, but his other efforts at desegregation met with little success.
400
Two burning political issues
What are Civil Rights and the Vietnam War?
400
The movement which lead to the formation of the NAACP
What is The Niagara Movement? The NAACP was founded in 1909 as a result of the Niagara Movement, which was led by W. E. B. Du Bois and others who met in Niagara, New York, in 1905. The movement took a more militant approach to solving the problems of racism than the gradualist policies of Booker T. Washington’s Afro-American Council.
500
War Industries Board, the Creel Committee, The Food Administration and the Espionage Act
What is areas of increased government power during WW1?
500
The first President to receive the Women's Vote
Who is Warren G. Harding?
500
US entry into this organization was fought for the same reasons that the League of Nations was defeated
What is NATO? Isolationists in Congress were afraid that if the United States joined NATO, the nation would be pulled into war. Similar concerns had been raised about the League of Nations after World War I.
500
The Moral Majority, Reagan's popularity, stagflation and religious revivalism contributed to this
What is The New Right of the 70s and 80s?
500
Nicknamed The Big Stick Policy
What is The Roosevelt Corollary (to the Monroe Doctrine)? The Big Stick Policy is the nickname given to The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine and should be studied along with Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy and Wilson’s Moral Diplomacy.