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100
His nicknames include TR and the Trustbuster (for his work at breaking up corporate trusts).
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
100
Her leadership of the suffrage movement included the use of such tactics as pushing for a new constitutional amendment.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
100
Imperialism is defined as a strong nation dominating a ______ nation.
What is weak?
100
Reconstruction was a program to rebuild the _____ following the Civil War.
What is the South?
100
The Antebellum time period occurred before this event in 1861.
What is the Civil War?
200
America changed into a twentieth century modern nation following his assassination.
Who is William McKinley?
200
Journalists such as Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair's work to expose abuse and corruption within various industries earned them this title
What is muckraker?
200
One reason America engaged in imperialism was for racist reasons based on the writings of Hebert Spencer, known as this.
What is social darwinism?
200
Reconstruction was largely run by the Radical Republicans who controlled this branch of government.
What is Congress?
200
During this period, President Jefferson made this purchase from the French for about $15,000,000.
What is Louisiana?
300
The Clayton Anti-Trust Act was one plank of his New Frontier Program.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
300
One great failure of the progressive movement was their refusal to help this group.
Who are African Americans?
300
America truly began building an empire after the explosion of this ship in Havana Harbor, thus leading to the Spanish American War.
What is the USS Maine?
300
After Reconstruction ended in 1877, these laws took hold across the South, denying equal rights to African Americans.
What are Jim Crow or segregation laws?
300
The Compromises of 1820 and 1850 primarily focused on this Southern practice.
What is slavery?
400
Though unhappy as president, he continued much of the progressive revolution during his term in office.
Who is William Howard Taft?
400
One goal of the progressives, including Carry Nation, was a moral crusade against this liquid libation.
What is alcohol?
400
America's empire was largely based in the Pacific Ocean, thus supporting the beliefs of this writer who believed a great nation needed a great navy.
Who is Alfred Mahan?
400
One way of keeping African Americans tied to the land and white property owners in the South was the use of this economic practice.
What is sharecroppping?
400
This Supreme Court case declared that African Americans were not citizens of the US and sought to strengthen the fugitive slave laws.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
500
His opposition to Reconstruction resulted in his impeachment.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
500
More than anything else, the passage of this Amendment curbed the wealth and power of the industrialists.
What is the 16th Amendment?
500
Following the Spanish American War, this country revolted against America's attempts to control it.
What is the Philippines?
500
This Bureau was created during Reconstruction to help give African Americans an education and land.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
500
The antebellum period was marked by sectionalism, or a loyalty to one of these three regions of the country.
What is North, South, and West?