Mystery Questions
IEP Meetings
What were Jim Crow Laws?
Laws created in the South to take away the freedoms and rights recently freed of black Americans.
What started the war?
The assassination of the leader of Serbia, Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Where did the Japanese attack the United States?
Pearl Harbor, HI
Which country was the US at odds with in the Cold War?
The Soviet Union
Which one of your teachers takes archery lessons?
Miss I
What were the names of the two sides in the Civil War? NOT NORTH AND SOUTH
The Union and The Confederacy
SURPRISE QUESTION, DIRECTLY FROM YOUR PEERS: Is Hawaii a part of the US?
YES
What were the names of the two cities in Japan that the US bombed to end the war in the Pacific?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
SURPRISE RANDOM QUESTION DIRECTLY FROM YOUR PEERS: Is Texas it's own country?
NO
Which one of your teachers puts together the CLS yearbook?
Mrs. Waylock
Share one of the medical advances from the Civil War Era.
Prosthetics limbs OR amputation OR penicillin,
What was the name of the ship that was sunk by German U-Boats and eventually caused the US to get involved in the war?
The Lusitania
What was the name of the project that developed the atomic bomb?
The Manhattan Project
Which event led directly to the passing of The Civil Rights Act?
The March on Washington (or, the Children's crusade)
Which one of your teachers graduated from another school in District 155?
Mrs. Waylock
Which Reconstruction Constitutional Amendment abolished slavery in the US?
13th amendment
What led DIRECTLY to world War II? (HINT: This upset many Germans and led to Hitler's rise in power)
The Treaty of Versailles
During WWII the US President announced executive order 9066. What was it about?
Ordering all Japanese Americans to Internment camps in fear of Japanese spies in the US.
What were the two conflicting ideologies that sparked the tension and violence of the Cold War?
Communism v Capitalism
Which one of your teachers went to college in Iowa?
Miss I
Which union general pushed the Union to victory? HINT: He had a house in Galena IL and eventually became president.
Ulysses S Grant
What does MANIA stand for? (Causes of the war)
Militarism
Alliances
Nationalism
Imperialism
Assassination
There were three dictators we studied from WWII. From Germany, the Soviet Union and Italy. Name the three dictators and which country they were from.
Germany: Adolf Hitler
Soviet Union: Joseph Stalin
Italy: Benito Mussolini
Europe was split between communism and democracy buy THIS FIGURE OF SPEECH (two words...... Winston Churchill said it)
Iron Curtain!!!!!!!!!