was the first Jewish member of the Supreme Court, Taft didn’t want him, but Wilson used him as his progressive advisor.

negotiated an agreement with Japan concerning the future of Korea

While Warren G. Harding presided over what can be argued as the most corrupt administration in American History, he was never personally linked to any official wrongdoing.

In the 1920s, many investors bought stocks on margin – that is, with borrowed funds. 

The papers of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst helped invent what came to be known as “yellow journalism.”

Jane Addams, founder of the settlement house movement, stated:

Unable to convict Al Capone on bootlegging charges, the federal government arrested him for:

Theodore Roosevelt helped lead the Rough Riders in the Cuban campaign of the Spanish-American War.

Theodore Roosevelt gave Muckrakers their name.

Was chief justice