Women and Labor Movements
A group of workers who join together to fight for better pay and working conditions.
What is a labor union?
The year World War I ended, when Germany signed a treaty on November 11.
What is 1918?
A political and military rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union that lasted from 1945 to 1991.
What is the Cold War?
The movement between 1910 and 1970 when millions of African Americans left the rural South for northern cities.
What is the Great Migration?
The terrorist organization led by Osama bin Laden that attacked the United States on September 11, 2001.
What is al-Qaeda?
This 1912 strike in Massachusetts involved textile workers making four demands, including wage increases and an end to the premium payment system.
What is the Lawrence textile strike?
The surprise attack on this Hawaiian military base on December 7, 1941, brought the United States into World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
The number of American soldiers killed during the Vietnam War.
What is 58,000?
The pattern where white residents moved to suburbs as African Americans migrated to northern cities.
What is white flight or suburbanization?
The number of people who died in the September 11 attacks.
What is 3000?
The nickname for the Industrial Workers of the World, founded in 1905.
What were the Wobblies or IWW?
This is one of the Japanese cities that were destroyed by atomic bombs in August 1945, leading to Japan's surrender.
What is Hiroshima or Nagasaki?
A poisonous chemical sprayed by the U.S. military to destroy forests and crops in Vietnam, causing cancers and birth defects.
What is Agent Orange?
The 1974 court decision that gave Native American tribes the right to catch up to 50 percent of salmon in Washington state waters.
What is the Boldt Decision?
The law passed after 9/11 that expanded government power to spy on American people.
What is the Patriot Act?
This tactic involves refusing to work to demand better pay, and workers often carry signs near the workplace.
What is a strike?
The code name for the Allied invasion of German-occupied France on June 6, 1944.
What is D-Day?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's series of government programs designed to create jobs through public works projects like building roads and bridges.
What is the New Deal?
This is the name of the protests by Native people in Washington state who had to fight for treaty-guaranteed fishing rights.
What were the Fish Wars?
A trend where Democrats and Republicans struggle to communicate with each other because they disagree fiercely on several issues.
What is political polarization or partisanship?
A permanent change to the constitution. The 19th one guaranteed total voting rights for all women.
What is an amendment?
The number of Japanese Americans forced into prison camps by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II.
What is 120,000?
A tax placed on goods imported from other countries; the U.S. raised these during the Depression, causing other countries to retaliate.
What is a tariff?
This is the movement of African Americans back to the South after 1970
What is the Reverse Migration?
The two major political parties in the United States.
What are the Democratic Party and the Republican Party?