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Upton Sinclair published The Jungle in 1906, which led to the passage of which act?

A few Indigenous nations continued to violently resist American Westward expansion into the 1870s. We discussed several. Name one of them.

Communist Party USA split from which political party in 1919?

Joe HIll, who wrote several famous American labor songs, was a prominent member of which labor organization?

The United States instituted the Open Door Policy towards China in 1900. What did the Open Door Policy argue for?

We discussed several reasons why the Bison/American Buffalo was nearly hunted to extinction in the 1800s. Name one the reasons and explain it.

Name one labor activist who was active in the late 1800s and/or early 1900s. Write a few sentences about their life and/or something interesting you know about them.

“New South” is a term used to refer to the American South after the Civil War and the abolition of slavery. In what way was the South new, and in what way did the South remain the same?

The international governmental organization created after World War I to maintain global peace was known as what?

Senator Huey Long of Louisiana proposed which program as an alternative to FDR’s New Deal?