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Teddy Roosevelt's 1904 Presidential platform, called this, aimed for government regulation of businesses.
What was the Square Deal?
100
This president's actions toward monopolies earned him the nickname "Trustbuster".
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
100
In a bit of direct democracy, the Seventeenth Amendment gave the people to direct elect these people.
Who are senators?
100
He stressed equality for African-Americans by calling to reform their economic power.
Who was Booker T. Washington?
100
This president won the 1912 Election, benefitting from the split of the Republican Party.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
200
The name for the operation where elected leaders would often give jobs and favors to supporters and donors.
What is the spoils system?
200
Jacob Riis took pictures of immigrant tenement housing to show the horrors of their living conditions in this book.
What is "How the Other Half Lives"?
200
This work led to the passing of the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906.
What was "The Jungle"?
200
The efforts of Lucy Burns, Alice Paul, White House protests and hunger strikes helped give American women this.
What is suffrage?
200
Theodore Roosevelt started his own party after he won the Republican primary in 1912.
Who was William Taft?
300
This term is used when a group of businesses crush competition to raise their prices, and their profits.
What is oligopoly?
300
This was the publication which spread the cartoons of Thomas Nast.
What was "Harper's Weekly"?
300
Prohibition, the law banning the production and sale of alcohol, was made national by this number amendment.
What is the eighteenth?
300
W.E.B. DuBois, in a path to help African-Americans achieve equality, challenged this deeply engrained racist system.
What was segregation?
300
Woodrow Wilson, a progressive was in office to see this women's suffrage legislation pass.
What was the nineteenth amendment?
400
In the election of 1912, the Republicans were split between Taft and Roosevelt, running as the nominee of this party.
What was the Bull Moose Party?
400
He was often depicted as a large man, dressed extremely well, and usually associated with great sums of cash?
Who was Boss Tweed?
400
In the late 1800s, elections and other public affairs were rigged because of the inner dealings of this machine.
What was Tammany Hall?
400
Immigrants from this region faced much harsher discrimination because of their different customs and languages.
What was Eastern Europe?
400
This American Socialist ran five times for office in the late 1800s, where he never won more than 6% of the vote.
Who was Eugene V. Debs?
500
This was the legal separation of African-Americans in society.
What was segregation?
500
Upton Sinclair and Ida Tarbell were among this group, which showcased the horrors of monopolies, bad bosses, and your dinner.
Who are muckrakers?
500
This landmark federal legislation was the first of its kind-- it controlled trusts.
What was the Sherman Antitrust Act?
500
Catholics faced intense discrimination, rooted out of fear over their potential allegiance to not the United States, but this person.
Who is the Pope?
500
This was the first monopoly targeted by President Roosevelt.
What was the Northern Securities Company.