Immigration and the Red Scare I
Immigration and the Red Scare II
Miscellaneous History
Reconstruction Amendments
The 20's and Gilded Age
100
These top-secret locations allowed for illegal drinking activities to occur.
What are speakeasies?
100
What is being depicted and what occurred there?
Ellis Island; the immigration processing center for the Eastern half of the US.
100
An organized criminal group that is run like a business.
Mafia
100
What does the 13th Amendment do?
Abolishes slavery
100
Define the Harlem Renaissance
What is a modern artistic movement in African American culture which was expressed through music, dance, theater, and literature?
200
Who where the Bolsheviks and who were they led by?
Communist revolutionaries in the Russian Revolution; led by Vladimir Lenin
200
What is Xenophobia?
Fear of foreigners
200
Which two countries "fought" in the Pig War?
The US and Britain
200
What does the 15th Amendment do?
Gives all men of color the right to vote
200
What was the cause of the Harlem Renaissance?
Jim Crow/Black Codes, KKK violence, the Great Migration
300
What is the name of debt used to purchase stocks?
Margin
300
What are push and pull factors?
Negative events that make people leave their homelands (push) or positive aspects that attract people to new lands
300
Who is depicted below:
Al Capone
300
What is being depicted below? What was its purpose?
A literacy exam made to lower the amount of non-white voters.
300
What do we call the stock market crash, in 1929, that would help lead to the Great Depression?
Black Tuesday
400
This female-led group linked together the causes of temperance and social reform.
What is the Women’s Christian Temperance Union?
400
What were the Palmer Raids (Purpose and outcome)?
Illegal/unconstitutional raids carried out by the FBI to disrupt radicals. Many immigrants were targeted and deported.
400
What was the Quartering Act?
Forced American colonists to house British soldiers in the buildup to the American Revolution.
400
What were the Black Codes? Give two examples.
A series of laws implemented in the former Confederate states that limited the freedom of African Americans.
Examples: Segregation, Curfews, work requirements punishable by prison time.
400
It has been said the Harlem Renaissance was... "surely as _____ as it was Black, not that it was exclusively either of these.”
What other identity flourished the Renaissance?
Gay/LGBTQ+
500
Why was the Sacco and Vanzetti trial controversial? Give two reasons.
Possible answers:
-Xenophobia against their community
-Another man confessed
-The Red Scare produced panic and civil rights violations resulted
500
Describe capitalism, anarchism and communism.
Capitalism: An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state
Anarchism: Belief in the abolition of all government and capitalism
Communism: A social order based on the ideas of common ownership of the means of production (factories, businesses, farmland) and the absence of social classes, money, and the state
500
What historical event is being depicted below:
Manifest Destiny
500
What are two protections established in the 14th Amendment?
-Equal protection before the law
-Rights to citizenship
500
Daily Double!
We studied the Gilded Age families. Name two families, the companies they ran, what those companies did to become so wealthy.
Rockefellers - Standard Oil - Horizontal Monopoly
Vanderbilts - New York Central RR - Bailed out the government
Carnegies - Carnegie Steele - Vertical Monopoly