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The president who supported the Pure Food and Drug Act?
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
100

The act that prevented food and medicine producers from being dishonest in their descriptions of what was in their products.

What was the Pure Food and Drug Act?

100

Federal government legislation that led to the sale of federal land; the money raised by the sales would go to irrigating dry land, especially in the west 

What is the Newlands Reclamation Act?

100
The connection between the National Parks and Theodore Roosevelt
What is conservation?
100
The constitutional amendment that prohibited the production, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages.
What is the 18th Amendment?
200
The muckraker that drew attention to the plight of the very poor in New York City.
Who is Jacob Riis?
200
Not an act, but an amendment that allowed the federal government to collect income taxes for the first time in 1913.
What is the 16th Amendment?
200

Governor of Wisconsin who introduced four significant reforms; direct primary, referendum, initiative, recall, expanding democracy to the people 

Who is Robert LaFollette

200
The thing that connects Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul, and Susan B. Anthony
What is women's suffrage?
200
Constitutional amendment that gave women the vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
300
The muckraker who published a book that revealed the disgusting, and unsanitary state of meatpacking factories in Chicago, Illinois.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
300

A law making it compulsory for meat to be inspected by federal inspectors before it could be sold to consumers

What is the Meat Inspection Act?

300

She was responsible for the creation of Hull House in Chicago, a place assisting poor immigrant women who were without jobs.

Who is Jane Addams?

300

Companies like Standard Oil were ultimately broken apart by legislation contained in these two famous antitrust acts

What are the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act?

300

This urban movement was started to bring more and better natural areas like parks into the big cities of the United States

What is the "City Beautiful" movement

400

She was ultimately wanted by conservative groups for promoting the use of birth control by American women.

Who is Margaret Sanger?

400
A law that made it illegal for companies to get so big that they had a monopoly over the industry they were part of.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
400

A state government reform that allowed for voters to remove an unpopular official or politician from office.

What is a "recall?"

400

Theodore Roosevelt, and Upton Sinclair both helped get publicity for these reforms both passed in 1906.

The Meatpacking Inspection Act and

The Pure Food and Drug Act

400
This is the closest that American voters get to pure democracy - that is, all voters get to choose for, or against a law.
What is the referendum?
500
A campaigner for women's suffrage who was there with Lucretia Mott at Seneca Falls, NY in 1848 to sign the Declaration of Sentiments,
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
500
An act of Congress that made it harder for politicians to use patronage; forced many applying for government positions to be qualified to do the job properly.
What is the Pendleton Act?
500

Made popular by William Randolph Hurst and Joseph Pulitzer, this sensational, sometimes irresponsible type of mass journalism swept the nation at the end of the 1800's

What is yellow journalism?

500
Ida B. Wells, and W. E. B. Du Bois both helped found this anti-discriminatory organization.
The NAACP
500

First used by famous writer Mark Twain, it was used to describe his view that America at the time appeared golden and loaded with opportunity and wealth, but the reality was that under the surface America was troubled by poverty and struggle. 

What is the Gilded Age?