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laws that would ban the making or selling of alcohol in the United States
pioneered a new, less expensive way to manufacture cars—the assembly line
Who is Henry Ford?
City where violence raged out after a group of whites threw stones at an African American youth swimming in Lake Michigan.
What is Chicago?
On Tuesday, October 29, stock prices plummeted. The New York Stock Exchange closed for a few days to prevent more panic selling.
What is the Stock Market Crash?
African American musicians in New Orleans developed an entirely new kind of music that combined elements of work songs, gospel music, spirituals, and African rhythms in a new and exciting mix.
What is Jazz?
the policy of extending a nation's rule over other territories and countries
What is imperialism?
In 1876 he set up a workshop in Menlo Park, New Jersey, known as an “invention factory”
Who is Thomas Edison?
Region of the United States that was prone to flooding and lacked reliable electricity during the Great Depression – where FDR created one of his “Hundred Days” New Deal programs to save the region.
What is the Tennessee Valley?
Landmark 1954 court case that overturned “separate but equal” Plessy v Ferguson case and ended segregation in public schools.
What is "Brown v Board of Education"?
Song written by folk singer Woody Guthrie, describing parts of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression.
What is "This Land is Your Land"?
total control of an industry by a single producer
What is a monopoly?
Became president in 1901 after President McKinley was shot, a progressive president who championed conservation and was known as a “trustbuster”.
Who is Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt?
City in Alabama where Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus leading to a year long boycott of the city's public transportation system
What is Montgomery, Alabama?
The northward movement of hundreds of thousands of African Americans during and after World War I.
What is "the Great Migration"?
Harlem Renaissance Artist who painted “The Migration Series”
Who is Jacob Lawrence?
The amendment that gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th amendment?
a carefree young woman with short "bobbed" hair, heavy makeup, and a short skirt
Who is a flapper?
Region of the United States that suffered an environmental disaster know as the Dust Bowl, where huge dust clouds blocked out the sun, buried roads and vehicles, and caused thousands of migrants to leave the state of Oklahoma.
What is the Great Plains?
Congressional act that distributed millions of acres of western land to anyone who agreed to farm the land.
What is the Homestead Act?
Where can you find the famous poem that contains these lines: “"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
What is the base of the Statue of Liberty"
a type of journalism based on sensational stories
What is "yellow journalism"?
Former Governor of Alabama, staunch segregationist, who ran for President as a third-party candidate in the 1968 election.
Who is George Wallace?
Purchased arranged by Secretary of state William Seward in 1867, the U.S bought this territory from Russia for $7.2 million. A great bargain for a territory twice the size of Texas.
What is Alaska?
refers to the time of heightened public fear in the United States in which the government went after Communists and others with radical views.
What is "the Red Scare"?
American photographer who worked for the Farm Administration during the Great Depression documenting the lives of migrant farm workers. Best known for the famous photograph "Migrant Mother".
Who is Dorothea Lange?