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100
Gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
100
Youngest man to become President.
What is Teddy Roosevelt?
100
Started the programs known as the Wisconsin Idea.
What is LaFollette?
100
A conference was held at Seneca Falls, New York in 1854 to discuss this.
What is vote for women?
100
Means ability.
What is merit?
200
Gave citizens the right to elect Senators directly.
What is the 17th amendment?
200
Died after being shot by Charles Guiteau.
What is Garfield?
200
One of the most infamous of the corrupt New York City bosses.
What is Tweed?
200
Lived in their own neighborhoods known as barrios.
What is Latin Americans?
200
Means business across state lines.
What is interstate commerce?
300
Gave African American men the right to vote regardless of race, color or former servitude.
What is the 15 amendment?
300
Had been fired from the New York Customs House for corruption, but as President worked to end corruption.
What is Chester Arthur?
300
Was the political cartoonist whose work helped capture Boss Tweed.
What is Nast?
300
Was founded by W.E.B.Dubois, jane Addams and others to fight for rights for African Americans.
What is the NAACP?
300
The practice of awarding jobs to political supporters.
What is patronage?
400
Made the manufacture, sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages illegal.
What is the 18th amendment?
400
Was President during World War I and proposed the League of Nations.
What is Woodrow Wilson?
400
Wrote an expose on the problems with the meat packing industry.
What is Upton Sinclair?
400
1887 law that tried to make all Native Americans farmers by giving them small plots of land.
What is Dawes Act?
400
A law suggested by the people via a petition.
What is initiative?
500
Gave the federal government the right to tax people's incomes.
What is the 16th amendment?
500
Had 2 non-consecutive terms as President.
What is Grover Cleveland?
500
Photojournalist who wrote "How the Other Half Lives".
What is Riis?
500
These were laws, mostly in the South, to limit the rights of African Americans and to promote segregation.
What is Jim Crow laws?
500
An election to remove a public official from office.
What is recall?