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Assignment:

1. Who was the conservationist and close friend to Teddy Roosevelt and the head of the U.S. division of Forestry?

2. Who was the woman who founded the Women's Christian Temperance Union?

3. What is it called when a certain number of voters petition to have a measure put on a ballot?

4. What is it called when the Electorates can then vote for or against that measure?

5. What is it where a corrupt public official could be removed by a public petition or vote?

6. Who was the Mexican revolutionary that killed 17 Americans in New Mexico and was the reason that John J. Pershing was sent to Mexico by Wilson to try to capture him?

7. Name the British ocean liner that was sunk by German U-boats on May 7th 1925 that killed 128 Americans?

8. The Era between 1890-1920 that was a period of dramatic political reform and social activism was called what?

9. What was it called when the Taft administration encouraged the U.S bankers to aid debt-plagued governments in Haiti, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua?

10. What was the message called when Germany wanted Mexico to invade the United States in exchange for lost territory in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona?

11. What was it called when the U.S. Government raided many Cities and arrested Russian immigrants and deported them back to Russia?

12. What amendment was ratified in 1913 and authorized popular election of senators?

13. The church reformers who feared that Christianity was losing its relevance among the masses began to preach what became known as what?

14. The summer of 1919 became known as what, do to all the blood shed due to racial violence?

15. Who was the lady that was the head of the National Consumers' League who helped with the child - labor reform movement and tried to get reform to regulate work hours for women?

16. What does WCTU stand for, which focused on stopping alcohol abuse and wanted prison reform?

17. Name the illness that would kill over 100 million people worldwide in 1918 and around 675,000 in the U.S.?

18. Name the lady who started the Hull House in Chicago to help the working poor and Immigrants?

19. Who was the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and announced that the League of Nations was unacceptable because it would interfere with the Senate's ability to declare War?

20. What does the NWSM stand for that was founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton that tried to gain women the right to vote for women?

21. Name the Party led by Vladimir Lenin that started Communism?

22. Name the offensive that was the United States first major action in the war which involved 1.2 million U.S. troops?

23. Who was the executive head of the Committee on Public Information and believed that the best way to influence public opinion was through propaganda?

24. What was the movement in opposition to Alcohol?

25. Name the disaster in New York that killed 146 female workers in a clothing factory that were locked in their workplace to prevent theft?

26. What do you call an investigative journalist who thrived on exposing social ills and corporate corruption?

27. What placed restrictions on the makers of prepared food and patented medicines?

28. What made it a requirement for all meat to be federally inspected?

29. What is it called when all party members would participate in the election of candidates and not just a certain chosen few?

30. What was the scientific management program that promised to reduce waste and inefficiency in the workplace through the scientific analysis of labor processes?

31. What imposed penalties up to $10,000 and twenty years in prison for anyone who gave aid to the enemy?

32. Who was the Democratic candidate who won the election of 1912?

33. What was the mass movement of African Americans from the south to the north during this time period called?

34. What was headed by Herbert Hoover which sought to raise agricultural production while reducing civilian consumption of foodstuffs?

35. Who was the woman who advocated for birth control for women?

36. What did Congress pass to help with child labor, but would eventually be ruled unconstitutional?

37. What amendment allowed women the right to vote?

38. Who was the woman who worked hard for women's suffrage and became the head of the NAWSA organizing 5,000 suffragists to march in protest at Wilson's presidential inauguration?

39. What extended penalties for anyone who obstructed the government to the sale of war bonds?

40. What Amendment authorized the government to tax your Federal income?