Western Expansion/Inventors
These were two American brothers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who are credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903 four miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Who are the Wright Brothers?
He, nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an African American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer who became one of the pivotal and most influential figures in jazz music. His career spanned five decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s, and different eras in jazz.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
This happened in 1914 and led to World War I.
What is the Austria-Hungary declaration of war in Serbia?
This put an end to prosperity of the 1920s.
What is the stock market crash in October 1929?
He was the president the promised the United States a new deal.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
He was an American botanist and inventor. He was born into slavery in Missouri, either in 1861, or January 1864. His reputation is based on his research into and promotion of alternative crops to cotton, such as peanuts and sweet potatoes, which also aided nutrition for farm families. He wanted poor farmers to grow alternative crops both as a source of their own food and as a source of other products to improve their quality of life.
Who is George Washington Carver.?
He was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.
Who is Henry Ford?
This is the reason why the United States entered the War.
What is Germany's attack on American ships?
Problems on farms , bank failures, and a slowing economy were all __________ of the great depression.
What is are causes?
This was the name of the new government programs started by President Roosevelt.
What is the New Deal?
He was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
He was known as the greatest home run hitter of his time, making him one of the most popular players in the history of baseball. He was the only player to hit three home runs twice in a World Series game, during 1926 and 1928.
Who is Babe Ruth?
This is why Germany, Russia, and France competed for land and power.
What is nationalism?
He was the 31st president of the United States (1929–1933), whose term was notably marked by the stock market crash of 1929 and the beginnings of the Great Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This is the lowest amount of money most workers can be paid.
What is minimum wage?
He was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb
What is Thomas Edison?
He was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry.
Who is Langston Hughes?
This was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
What is Treaty Of Versailles?
It is also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion caused the phenomenon.
What is the dust bowl?
The people working for TVA built these kind of dams on the Tennessee River.
What is hydroelectric?
These were two trails.
One was used during the 19th century for movement of cattle to markets in the eastern United States. The trail was also known as the Western Trail, the Dodge City Trail, or the Old Texas Trail.
The other was a trail used in the post-Civil War era to drive cattle overland, from ranches in Texas to Kansas rail heads. The portion of the trail marked by Jesse Chisholm went from his southern trading post near the Red River, to his northern trading post near Kansas City, Kansas.
What is Great Western and Chisholm Trails?
He was an African American track and field athlete and four-time Olympic gold medalist.
Who is Jesse Owens?
These were two new groups of workers in factories during WWI.
Who were African Americans and Women?
This is a place where food is offered to the hungry for free or at a below market price.
Frequently located in lower-income neighborhoods, they are often staffed by volunteer organizations, such as church or community groups.
They sometimes obtain food from a food bank for free or at a low price, because they are considered a charity, which makes it easier for them to feed the many people who require their services.
What are soup kitchens?
Name three (3) of Roosevelt's New Deal Programs.
What are: Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Works Progress Administration (WPA), Social Security?