The 26th president of the U.S., opposed the progressive movement
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
100
January 10 at Spindletop, Texas
What was the first major oil discovery in Texas?
100
A crusade against the use of alcohol
What is Temperance?
100
The right to vote
What is suffrage?
100
Women are granted suffrage
What is the 19th Amendment?
200
Invented the lightbulb
Who was Thomas Edison?
200
1920, women are able to vote
In what year was the 19th amendment ratified?
200
An act passed in 1890 to control business monopolies that plan to restrain U.S. trade
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
200
A law forbidding the sale of alcohol
What is Prohibition?
200
People have the power to elect their representatives
What is the 17th Amendment?
300
Industrialist and credited developer of the assembly line
Who was Henry Ford?
300
The year the U.S. enters the first World War
In 1917?
300
Theodore Roosevelt's promise of fair and equal treatment for all
What is the Square Deal?
300
Support for or advocacy of social reform, term applied to the reform movements that focused on the issues that rapid industrialization introduced to America
What is Progressivism?
300
Organization that fought for equal rights of colored people
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People(NAACP)?
400
Industrialist who led the expansion of the American steel industry
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
400
The year that the first income tax is implemented
In 1913?
400
Established Civil Service Commission which set up exams for federal job applicants
What is the Pendleton Act?
400
The movement of people to cities; the process of making an area more urban
What is Urbanization?
400
Created a federal income tax
What is the 16th Amendment?
500
Known as the "mother" of social work, leader in women's suffrage and world peace
Who was Jane Addams?
500
March 25, 1911. Deadliest industrial disaster in New York history
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
500
Enforced the health and sanitary standards of the meat packing industry; direct result of Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
500
Journalist who exposed corruption and other problems of the late 1800s and early 1900s
What is a Muckraker?
500
An international religious and charitable group organized on military lines