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1920s
100
He owned the Homestead Mill in Pennsylvania.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
100
Farmers wanted the government to do this in the hopes it would bring about inflation and help farmers pay their debts.
What is back money with silver as well as gold (bimetallism)?
100
Panamanians revolted against this country.
What is Colombia?
100
He was arrested for teaching evolution.
Who is John Scopes?
100
He won the election of 1920 with a promise of a "return to normalcy."
Who is Warren G. Harding?
200
He assembled the world's first billion dollar corporation.
Who is J. Pierpont Morgan?
200
This was William Jennings Bryan's famous speech in which he accepted the 1896 democratic presidential nomination.
What is the Cross of Gold Speech?
200
He led the Filippinos in their revolts against both Spain and the United States.
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo?
200
This pact between TR and the Japanese government restricted Asian immigration to the United States.
What is the Gentleman's Agreement?
200
Harding's buddies, co-workers, and poker playing policies were known as this.
What is the Ohio Gang?
300
This philosopher popularized Social Darwinism.
Who is Herbert Spencer?
300
Name of Jane Addams's settlement house in Chicago.
What is Hull House?
300
Name two yellow journalism newspaper publishers.
Who are Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst?
300
They were executed for murdering a payroll master in Boston.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
300
This tariff replaced the already high Fordney-McCumber Tariff.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
400
Name the leaders of the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor.
Who are Terence Powderly and Samuel Gompers?
400
He is considered the first progressive president.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
400
He instituted the Open Door Notes.
Who is John Hay?
400
He rounded up thousands of suspected Communists during the Red Scare of 1919-1920.
Who is A. Mitchell Palmer?
400
This bill, vetoed by Coolidge, was intended to help ease the debt burden on farmers.
What is the McNary-Haugen Bill?
500
This act, passed in 1890, was actually used to outlaw labor unions.
What is the Sherman Anti-trust Act?
500
This person wrote History of Standard Oil.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
500
This president was in office when Hawaii was annexed.
Who is William McKinley?
500
This World War I agency, headed by George Creel, has been accused of encouraging intolerance against Germans.
What is the Committee on Public Information?
500
He was the main villain in the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Who is Albert Fall?