Biography
Geography
Politics
Roosevelts
Failures
100

He thought education was the way forward for Black Americans to protect their civil rights.

Booker T. Washington

100

The Great Plains were the site of this environmental catastrophe brought on by drought in the 1930s.

Dust Bowl

100

This made FDR look like he was trying to take over the Judicial Branch of the U.S. government.

Court Packing

100

TR was the candidate of this party in the 1912 election.

The Progressive (Bull Moose) Party

100

This just invited retaliatory action from Europe in the early 1930s.

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

200

He was the governor who promoted the initiative, referendum and recall in Wisconsin.

Robert LaFollette

200

Over 4200 U.S. soldiers died here, killed by freedom fighters who disliked the U.S. as much as they disliked Spain.

The Philippines

200

Some Americans felt that overturning this Amendment would increase tax revenue for the U.S.

18th Amendment (Prohibition)

200

This was FDR's favorite New Deal agency, employing over 3 million young men, and showing almost immediate results.

CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)

200

In 1937, this happened, leading to the election of more Republicans in 1938 and the end of the New Deal in 1939.

A recession, due to cuts in government spending.

300

She was head of NAWSA, and founded a women's political party.

Alice Paul

300

The Bonus Army were American soldiers who marched on this city to collect an early monetary bonus for their service in WW1.

Washington D.C.

300

The Citizenship Act of 1924 granted citizenship to these people.

Native Americans

300

Leonard Wood, not TR, commanded this unit in Cuba in 1898.

Rough Riders

300

Americanization was the goal of this Act. It failed.

Dawes Act

400

He called himself a "businessman" even though his business was illegal bootlegging in Chicago.

Al Capone

400

The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine dealt with nations in this region.

Latin America

400

This was the tax measure proposed by Hoover to increase revenue to the U.S. at the start of the Great Depression.

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

400

This was FDR's largest public works agency.

WPA (Works Progress Administration)

400

This movement was aimed at protecting women and children.

The Temperance Movement (Prohibition)

500

He doubled workers' pay and gave them weekends off, and still had a hard time finding employees due to the crushing boredom of the work he asked them to do.

Henry Ford

500

Theodore Roosevelt engaged U.S. military forces here to obtain land to build the Panama Canal.

Colombia

500

This was the most telling evidence against Wilson's progressivism

He re-segregated the Executive Branch of the federal government.

500

FDR was opposed by this priest, who thought the New Deal had not gone far enough.

Fr. Charles Coughlin

500

This agreement failed because it had no mechanism for enforcement.

Kellogg-Briand Pact