Progressive Era
This U.S. president was known as a “trust buster” and promoted the Square Deal.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
The U.S. entered WWI in this year.
What is 1917?
This decade was called the “Roaring Twenties” partly because of this type of music.
What is jazz?
The Great Depression began after this 1929 event.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
This president created the New Deal.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This 1913 amendment established the federal income tax.
What is the 16th Amendment?
The assassination of this archduke started WWI.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This 1920 amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Many Great Plains farmers fled westward due to this environmental disaster.
What is the Dust Bowl?
The New Deal program that built dams and provided electricity to the South.
What is the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)?
Journalists who exposed corruption during the Progressive Era were called this.
Who are muckrakers?
This act made it illegal to criticize the U.S. government during wartime
What is the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
This event saw fear of communism and radicals spread across the U.S. after WWI.
What is the Red Scare?
These shantytowns were nicknamed after the president blamed for the Depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
This program put young men to work planting trees and building parks.
What is the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)?
Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle led to this 1906 law.
What is the Meat Inspection Act (or Pure Food and Drug Act)?
President Wilson’s postwar peace plan had this many points.
What are the Fourteen Points?
This was the first major trial that debated evolution vs. religion in schools.
What is the Scopes Trial?
This 1932 “Bonus Army” protested in Washington, D.C. for early payment of military bonuses.
Who were WWI veterans?
This 1935 law created pensions for the elderly.
What is the Social Security Act?
This movement sought to ban alcohol nationwide.
What is the Temperance Movement (or Prohibition)?
The U.S. never joined this international organization created after WWI.
What is the League of Nations?
This Harlem poet wrote “I, Too” and became a leading voice of the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Langston Hughes?
This agency insured bank deposits to restore public confidence.
What is the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)?
FDR’s radio addresses to the public were known as this.
What are Fireside Chats?