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Muckrakers
Women
Civil Rights
Gilded Age
100

I lobbied for the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act.

Who is Theodore Roosevelt?

100

I started the settlement house movement in the United States when I founded Hull House in the United States.

Who is Jane Addams?

100

I began lobbying for women's suffrage before the Civil War.  The 19th Amendment was passed after my death.

Who is Susan B. Anthony?

100

I was the symbolic leader of the Civil Rights Movement.  I spoke at the March on Washington in 1963 and was assassinated at the age of 39.

Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?

100

We controlled political parties, exchanged jobs for votes, and justified corruption because we helped the community.

What are muckrakers?

200

I wrote a 14 point plan to achieve peace after World War I.

Who is Woodrow Wilson?

200

I wrote The Jungle, which resulted in government regulations for food and medications.

Who is Upton Sinclair?

200

I fought for the desegregation of public buses in Montgomery, Alabama, by being arrested for refusing to give up my seat on a bus.

Who is Rosa Parks?

200

I believed African Americans should defend themselves violently if necessary.

Who is Malcolm X?

200

We wanted restrictions on immigrationm, encouraged assimilation and viewed immigrants as competition for jobs.

What are nativists?

300

I hired my crooked friends for government positions.  Their bribery scandal tainted my memory.

Who is Warren G. Harding?

300

I photographed tenements and documented the lives of the working poor.

Who is Jacob Riis?

300

We broke traditional gender norms during the Roaring 20s.

Who are flappers?

300

We went to Mississippi to help African Americans register to vote during Mississippi Freedom Summer.

What is SNCC?

300

This law was passed to prohibit more people from this Asian country from immigrating to the West Coast of the United States.

What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?

400

I was crafted the New Deal and tried to pack the Supreme Court when they blocked some of my legislation.

Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?

400

I wrote a book exposing the business practices of Standard Oil.

Who is Ida Tarbell?

400

I helped the Chicano Movement by cofounding the United Farm Workers.

Who is Dolores Huerta?

400

We integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Who is the Little Rock Nine?

400

This rail line connected the east and west coasts.

What is the transcontinental railroad?

500

I helped end World War II by authorizing the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Who is Harry Truman?

500

I wrote articles exposing the horror of lynching in the South.

Who is Ida B. Wells?

500

I was the first Latina Supreme Court justice.

Who is Sonia Sotomayor?

500

I was an attorney for the NAACP and argued many important cases before the Supreme Court.

Who is Thurgood Marshall?

500

Standard Oil controlled the petroleum industry.  They had a ...

What is a monopoly?