This African American leader emphasized vocational and trades skills rather than university education and civil rights.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
100
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle was an exposé of this societal problem?
What is unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry?
100
This amendment provided for the direct election of US citizens by voting citizens.
What is the Seventeenth Amendment?
100
This African American leader taught that blacks should first learn a vocation and make themselves economically valuable; and that as a result of that freedom and equality would naturally follow.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
100
The United States gained a world-wide empire including Guam, Puerto Rico, Cuba (indirectly), and the Philippines as a result of victory in this war.
What is the Spanish-American War (1898)?
200
This African American leader fought for full civil rights and an immediate end to all segregation and discrimination. Accepted no compromise solutions or delays.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
200
Borax and glycerine were used to "doctor" this.
What is spoiled meat?
200
The initiative, referendum, recall, and the direct primary are all progressive reforms that share this in common.
What is giving ordinary citizens a greater voice in government? (Enhancing democracy)
200
Eastern Tennessee coal miners rioted and began an insurgency when the Tennessee government tried to bring in these people to mine coal.
What is convict labor/convicts?
200
This President believed that a "big stick" of military power was the most effective way of persuading other nations to cooperate with US interests.
What is Teddy Roosevelt and his "Big Stick Diplomacy"
300
This short-lived political party opposed railroads and banks as unfairly exploiting farmers.
What is the Populist Party?
300
The secret ballot was a progressive reform initiated to prevent this.
What is voter intimidation by party bosses & political machines?
300
The Interstate Commerce Act (1887), the Sherman Antitrust Act (1890), and the Clayton Antitrust Act (1914) all shared this in common.
What is eliminating unfair business practices?
300
This system was established to regulate the nation's interest rates and money supply.
What is the Federal Reserve Banking System?
300
This principle asserted the right of the US to act as the "international policeman of the Western Hemisphere."
What is the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?
400
J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and Cornelius Vanderbilt all belong to this category.
What are monopolists?
400
This social movement believed that government regulation of the economy would help ensure the public welfare.
What is the Progressive Movement?
400
The Great Migration was made possible primarily because of this.
What are the manpower needs of the Army during WWI?
400
The United States' interest in this Hawaiian crop was one reason why many Americans wanted to annex Hawaii.
What is sugar/sugar plantations?
400
The desire for new economic markets and sources of raw materials was one reason for this movement in the US in the late 1800s/early 1900s.
What is imperialism?
500
Progressive muckrakers struggled to create minimum age limits for this group of people.
What are children/child labor?
500
This state's ratification—after Harry Burn changed his mind— of the Nineteenth Amendment guaranteed that women would have the right to vote.
What is Tennessee?
500
Teddy Roosevelt's progressive program to protect consumers, regulate big business, and conserve the natural environment was called what?
What is the Square Deal?
500
This Filipino leader initially welcomed American help against Spain but soon turned against the US when he realized its true intentions were to dominate the Philippines as an empire.
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo?
500
This secret telegram angered many Americans when they discovered that Germany had proposed a military alliance with this country.