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Who was an influential advocate for birth control and reproductive rights in the early 20th century?
Margaret Sanger
Who wrote The Jungle, exposing the unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry?
Upton Sinclair
Who was the African American leader who believed in vocational education and economic self
sufficiency before fighting for civil rights?
Who founded the NAACP and argued for immediate civil rights and higher education for African Americans?
W.E.B. Du Bois
Who was the muckraking journalist that exposed the monopolistic practices of Standard Oil?
Ida Tarbell
Who led the Rough Riders during the Spanish
American War and later became a progressive U.S. president?
Who was president during World War I and proposed the Fourteen Points for peace?
Woodrow Wilson
Who was president during the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Warren G. Harding
Who was the leader of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I?
John J. Pershing
Who was the U.S. secretary of state that proposed the Open Door Policy in China?
John Hay
Who was the first Catholic to run for U.S. president as a major party candidate in 1928?
Al Smith
Who was the famous defense attorney in the Scopes Trial?
Clarence Darrow
Who was the prosecutor and fundamentalist leader in the Scopes Trial?
William Jennings Bryan
Who was president when the stock market crashed in 1929?
Herbert Hoover
Who was the Louisiana senator who proposed the “Share Our Wealth” program?
Huey Long
When did the stock market crash, marking the start of the Great Depression?
October 29, 1929 (Black Tuesday)
When was the 18th Amendment (Prohibition) ratified?
1919
When was the 19th Amendment (women’s suffrage) ratified?
1920
When was the Selective Service Act passed, instituting a military draft for World War I?
1917
When was the Treaty of Versailles signed, officially ending World War I?
1919
When did the U.S. enter World War I?
1917
When was the Lusitania sunk by a German U
boat, increasing tensions between the U.S. and Germany?
When was the Platt Amendment passed, allowing U.S. intervention in Cuba?
1901
When did the Spanish
American War take place?
Who was the president that implemented the New Deal during the Great Depression?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Who was the Supreme Court justice and former president who supported Dollar Diplomacy?
William Howard Taft
Who was the founder of the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
Samuel Gompers
Who was the woman known for leading the fight for women’s suffrage and founding the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)?
Susan B. Anthony
Who was the journalist and photographer who exposed tenement living conditions in How the Other Half Lives?
Jacob Riis
Who was the progressive governor of Wisconsin known for his “Wisconsin Idea” of government reform?
Robert La Follette
Who was the African American journalist and anti
lynching activist who co
Who was the U.S. president who called World War I a war to “make the world safe for democracy”?
Woodrow Wilson
Who was the Secretary of the Interior involved in the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Albert Fall
Who was the American pilot who became famous for the first solo transatlantic flight in 1927?
Charles Lindbergh
Who was the famous gangster during Prohibition who controlled Chicago’s illegal alcohol trade?
Al Capone
Who was the industrialist who revolutionized mass production with the assembly line?
Henry Ford
Who was the leader of the American Socialist Party and a five
time presidential candidate?
Who was the U.S. general who led troops against Pancho Villa in Mexico?
John J. Pershing
Who was the African American leader who promoted Black nationalism and the “Back to Africa” movement?
Marcus Garvey
When was the 16th Amendment (income tax) ratified?
1913
When was the 17th Amendment (direct election of senators) ratified?
1913
When was the Federal Reserve Act passed, creating the U.S. central banking system?
1913
When was the National Origins Act passed, setting strict immigration quotas?
1924
When was the Kellogg
Briand Pact signed, attempting to outlaw war?
When was the Smoot
Hawley Tariff passed, worsening the Great Depression?
When was the Bonus Army march on Washington by WWI veterans demanding early pensions?
1932
When did the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) begin providing jobs and electricity to the rural South?
1933
When was the Social Security Act passed, creating a pension system for the elderly?
1935