Name that Revolution!
Climate & Culture
Black Pioneers
Building the American Puzzle
Name the Decade
100

Assembly Line and Mass Production

What is the (Second) Industrial Revolution? 

100

Desert dwellers who changed from sedentary to nomadic following a great drought.

Who were the Southwest cultures?

100

Radical black abolitionist who led an uprising of enslaved people that shook the South.

Who was Nat Turner?

100

Acquiring this territory reignited the debate about the expansion of slavery which led to Civil War.

What was the Mexican Cession? 

100

The Civil War and purchase of Alaska

What were the 1860s?

200

Telegraph and Telephone

What is the Communication Revolution? 

200

Sedentary cultures which rotated between agriculture and hunting-gathering as the seasons changed. 

Who were the Eastern cultures?

200

Radical abolitionist, suffrage advocate, and writer who escaped enslavement. 

Who was Frederick Douglass?

200

Acquiring this territory caused a constitutional crisis and forced a President to turn on his own beliefs. 

What was the Louisiana Territory?

200

The Great Depression and New Deal

What were the 1930s? 

300

Railroads and Canals

What is the Transportation Revolution? 

300

Nomadic cultures which followed great herds of animals as they migrated. 

Who were the Great Plains cultures? 

300

Civil Rights leader who called for Black self-sufficiency and the use of violence, when necessary. 

Who was Malcolm X?

300

Territory originally shared by the Great Britain and the United States until America threatened to take it by force. 

What was Oregon Territory? 

300

The Boston Tea Party and Declaration of Independence 

What were the 1770s?

400

Factories and Stores 

What is the Market Revolution? 

400

Sedentary cultures which were sustained by hunting-gathering in rivers and along the coast.

Who were the Northwest cultures? 

400

Black union leader who forced desegregation of America's wartime factories. 

Who was A. Phillip Randolph? 

400
General Andrew Jackson invaded this territory, forcing the federal government to add it to the United States. 

What is Florida (Territory)?

400

Watergate and the Iran Hostage Crisis

What were the 1970s?

500
The internet and social media

What is the Information Revolution? 

500

The culture to first master maize cultivation and become sedentary. 

Who were the (Mexican) Mesoamerican culture? 

500

Black leader whose call for a "return to Africa" for Black Americans led to his arrest and deportation. 

Who was Marcus Garvey? 

500

These TWO territories were formerly independent soveriegn nations.  

What are Hawai'i and Texas? 

500

The Baby Boom and Montgomery Bus Boycott

What were the 1950s?

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