This 1887 legislation incentivized Native Americans to acquire family-sized plots of land to replace their tribally held reservation land.
What is the Dawes Severalty Act?
100
A uniquely American form of popular entertainment around the turn of the twentieth century adapted from French models made up of a variety of acts—musical, comedy, magic, juggling, and others.
What is vaudeville?
100
Proponents of the protection of land for carefully managed development.
Who are conservationists?
100
FDR’s emergency closure of all American financial institutions beginning March 6, 1933.
What is the "bank holiday"?
100
A clever patriotic American name for the pickled vegetable too easily associated with the “evil Hun” during World War I.
What is “liberty cabbage”?
200
An addendum to the declaration of war in April 1898 that foreswore any intention to occupy, possess, or control Cuba after the anticipated victory over Spain.
What is the Teller Amendment?
200
The theory articulated in 1893 that westward expansion into the frontier had defined and continually renewed American ideas about democracy and individualism.
What is the Turner thesis?
200
The effort extended by Daniel Burnham and others to create order and symmetry on the disordered life of American cities at the turn of the twentieth century.
What is the city beautiful movement?
200
The sale of these government-issued securities to fund the war had raised $23 billion by 1920.
What are Liberty Bonds?
200
Northern white men, most of them Union army veterans, who moved to the South after the Civil War to pursue farming, business, and or professional opportunities.
What is a carpetbagger?
300
Legislation passed in 1862 that provided federal land grants to help western states establish institutions of higher education.
What is the Morrill Land Grant Act?
300
Organization founded in 1873 that grew in size and influence when it was led by Frances Willard in the 1880s and 90s becoming the largest women’s organization in American history in 1911.
What is the WCTU?
300
A journey over unfenced grasslands that allowed western cattle ranchers to deliver their animals to railroad centers.
What is a long drive?
300
French-owned construction company that stole millions from the Union Pacific Railroad through fraudulent contracts and covered it up with stock giveaways to key members of Congress as well as to
What is Crédit Mobilier?
300
Nine African American men who were convicted in Alabama of raping two white women in 1931 but later had their convictions overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who are the Scottsboro boys?
400
Progressive legislation supported by Wilson in 1916 that prohibited the shipment of goods produced by underage children over state lines.
What is the Keating-Owen Act?
400
This group of artists celebrated the spectacular natural landscapes of the West on grandiose canvases.
What is the Rocky Mountain school?
400
An organization founded in 1867 that established local chapters which sought to teach new scientific agricultural techniques to their members.
Who are the Grangers?
400
A substantial lowering of the import taxes meant to protect American industry in the first years of the Wilson administration.
What is the Underwood-Simmons Tariff?
400
First commercial radio station in America began broadcasting in 1920.
What is KDKA?
500
Legislation that ended U.S. military control in Puerto Rico in 1900 and established a formal colonial government.
What is the Foraker Act?
500
A group of artists in the early twentieth century who portrayed American society in a stark and naturalistic style.
What is the Ashcan school?
500
The great symbol of the divide between conservationists and preservationists related to a predictable water supply for San Francisco and its growing population in the early twentieth century.
What is Hetch Hetchy?
500
Legislation that raised import taxes on seventy-five farm products in 1930 but failed to significantly improve the lot of the American farmer.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
500
An Irish secret society that served as a militant labor organization in the western Pennsylvania anthracite coal region in the 1870s.