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100

Ran an impressive third-party campaign in the election of 1912

Who is TR?

100
The Thirteenth Amendment did this.
What is abolish slavery?
100
Many immigrants from Europe came through this port in New York City.
What is Ellis Island?
100
Upton Sinclair wrote this book to expose the plight of workers; unfortunately readers were more interested in the horrific stories about inedible food.
What is The Jungle?
100
This is the idea that wealthy people are successful because they are innately smarter and more deserving.
What is Social Darwinism?
200

He promised to sign legislation against lynching but would go back on his word during his presidency. 

Who is Woodrow Wilson?

200
What famous trial determined that separate was equal?
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
200
This concept was held by many Americans who disliked or distrusted immigrants.
What is nativism?
200
Describe the laissez-faire economic policy.
What is "hands-off"; meaning the government would not regulate businesses.
200
The passage of this allowed for women's suffrage at a national level.
What is the 19th Amendment?
300

Wins an impressive election against William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 election and reelection in 1900 only to be assassinated shortly thereafter. 

Who is William McKinley?

300
What year did Reconstruction officially end according to historians?
What is 1877?
300
This law banned Chinese immigrants from entering the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
300
This is the main difference between the Knights of Labor Union and the American Federation of Labor Union.
What is their acceptance policy; the Knights of Labor allowed all workers to join; the AFL only allowed skilled, male workers.
300
A typical person in this group was white, urban, middle class and male.
What is Progressive?
400
Until the election 2024, I was the only president to win non-consecutive terms. 

Who is Grover Cleaveland? 

400
These laws provided for segregation and were particularly enforced in the South.
What are the Jim Crow laws?
400
This was an important pull factor for immigrants from Europe.
What is the availability of farmland?
400
This is the result of the Bessemer Process.
What is stronger, lighter steel which allowed for more high-rise buildings and longer bridges?
400
This is the main difference between Progressives and Populists.
What is location? Progressives were activists in the city; Populism was a rural movement. Both focused on government protected the common people.
500

President during the opening of Oklahoma lands during the land run of 1889. 

Who was Benjamin Harrison?

500
The 15th Amendment ensured what right to black Americans AND how was this right limited in the South?
What is grant freedmen the right to vote; literacy tests, poll taxes, violence and other scare tactics often prevented black Americans from exercising their right to vote.
500
Many immigrants were expected to go to school in order to do what?
What is assimilate to American culture?
500
Factory workers tended to work in this sort of environment.
What is dangerous and loud?
500

Major amendments of the "progressive era". 

16(income tax), 17(direct election of senators), 18(prohibition), 19 (women's suffrage)