Progressive Era Reforms
The Roaring Twenties
The Great Depression
New Deal Programs
People and Movements
100
This president was known for his "Square Deal" and trust-busting policies.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
100
This type of music dominated the 1920s and was closely associated with African American culture.
What is jazz?
100
This date marks the stock market crash that started the Great Depression.
What is October 29, 1929 (Black Tuesday)?
100
This New Deal program insures bank deposits.
What is the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)?
100
This women’s suffrage leader co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association and worked for the 19th Amendment.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
200
This constitutional amendment allowed for the direct election of U.S. senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
200
This 1920 amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
200
This president was in office when the Great Depression began.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
200
This 1935 New Deal law protected workers’ rights to unionize and bargain collectively, and led to the rise of organized labor.
What is the Wagner Act?
200
This African American leader promoted self-help, education, and racial uplift in his famous Atlanta Compromise speech.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
300
This act, passed in 1914, empowered the federal government to regulate unfair business practices, especially those related to price discrimination and monopolies.
What is the Federal Trade Commission Act?
300
This notorious gangster became infamous during Prohibition.
Who is Al Capone?
300
These makeshift shantytowns were named after the president blamed for the Depression.
What are Hoovervilles?
300
This program paid farmers to reduce crop production.
What is the AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Administration)?
300
She was an investigative journalist whose work The History of the Standard Oil Company helped expose monopolistic practices.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
400
This law, passed in 1906, aimed to ensure safer food and medicine for Americans.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
400
This cultural movement celebrated African American achievements in art, music, and literature.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
400
This environmental disaster during the 1930s worsened farming conditions in the Great Plains.
What is the Dust Bowl?
400
This program provided jobs for young men in conservation projects.
What is the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)?
400
This reformer and sociologist was the first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard and co-founded the NAACP.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
500
This investigative journalism practice aimed to expose corruption and social injustice.
.What is muckraking?
500
This controversial 1925 trial debated the teaching of evolution in schools.
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
500
This act created jobs through public works projects and was part of the New Deal.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
500
This act, still in effect today, provides financial assistance to the elderly and disabled.
What is the Social Security Act?
500
This photographer documented the suffering of migrant workers during the Great Depression, including the famous “Migrant Mother” image.
Who is Dorothea Lange?