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- The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration
- The Emergency Quota Act of 1921 was more restrictive and limiting than the Immigration Act of 1924
- Walter Rauschenbusch led the Social Gospel movement
- Ulysses S. Grant became president following Lincoln's assassination
- The Progressive Party became known as the Bull Moose Party
- The Thirteenth Amendment guaranteed all U.S. citizens equal protection under the law
- Early labor unions such as the American Federation of Labor (AFL) were inclusive to any and all types of people
- Religious persecution, political oppression, fleeing wars or military service and environmental pollution were all reasons for immigration to the United States
- Tenant farming system used in the South in which a worker farms the land and gives the landowner a portion of the crop as payment for rent
- the U.S. government founded benevolent societies to help immigrants in case of sickness, unemployment, or death
- the crisis was the official magazine of the National Association for the advancement of Colored People
- The United States Senate refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles
- After World War I, African Americans in the United States did not suffer from acts of violence and terror
- Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge were progressive presidents who regulated business practices
- Appointed by Congress as superintendent of finance and obtained a much needed loan from France, helping put the emerging nation of America back on sound financial basis
- The Allied Powers included France, Russia, Britain, and Italy
- The Civil War began at Fort Sumter here when President Lincoln decided to send in "food for hungry men"
- About 8.5 million soldiers died as a result of the war
- By the late 1920s, approximately 60% of all registered cars in the world were found in the United States
- the space between the opposing trenches was known as "no man's land"