Groupies
Term for journalists during the Progressive Era that exposed problems through their work (photos, cartoons, novels, articles)
What is a Muckracker?
Environmental disaster that caused 300,000 farmers to leave the Great Plains in the 1920s and 1930s and head to California as "Okies".
What is the Dust Bowl?
Name of the first suburban neighborhood of mass produced homes.
What is Levittown?
The civil rights organization, N.O.W. was created by this minority group to gain equality and greater respect in American society.
What is women?
(National Organization of Women)
Novel by Upton Sinclair (1906); led to public outrage over unsanitary meatpacking practices
What is The Jungle?
Nickname Native Americans gave to Black Soldiers; they played a significant role in the Battle of San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War.
What is Buffalo Soldier?
Movement of Black Americans from the South to the North during both the Great War and WWII.
What is the Great Migration?
A business strategy introduced in the 1950s where products are intentionally designed to have limited lifespan, break easily or become unfashionable.
What is planned or perceived obsolesence?
The U.S. foreign policy during the 1960s and the entire Cold War.
What is Containment?
Children's book written by Frank Baum (1900); deeper meaning regarding monetary policy (Goldbugs vs Silverites); 2026 LMHS musical
What is The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
New, young, modern women that emgered in the 1920s; broke from traditional fashion and behavior.
What is Flappers?
A once thriving region of manufacturing during the the Industrial Revolution, people begin to leave this region by the 1960s and 1970s because of a lack of employmenr/economic oppurtunity.
What is the Rust Belt?
Name of the the largest generation in U.S. history born after WWII
What is Baby Boomers?
Since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, no nation has used nuclear weapons during war. What acronym explains this fact, even though nine nations now have nukes.
M.A.D
(Mutual Assured Destruction)
1957 novel by Jack Kerouac; nicknamed the 'Beatnik Bible"
What is "On the Road"?
1960 counterculture group; wore vibrant colors and patterns, rebelled against mainstream values such as consumerism and technology.
What is Hippies?
Nickname for the movement of white, middle-class Americans from cities to suburbs in the 1950s.
What is "white-flight?"
LBJ passed over 200 pieces of legislation, many still around today. Unfortunately, this overshadows many of his positive accomplishments.
What is the Vietnam War?
Name of Lyndon B. Johnon's (LBJ) broad plan to address poverty, civil rights, education and health care in the 1960s.
What is the Great Society?
The book that Rosie the Riveter's feet rest on in Norman Rockwell's original Rosie painting.
What is Hitler's "Mein Kampf"?
Third political party created by farmers in the late 1800s on the Great Plains; supported women's suffrage, income tax and direct election of sentaors before Republicans and Democrats.
What is Populist Party?
Americans moved around the nation easier because of this 41,000 mile President Eisenhower legacy constructed in the 1950s.
What is the Interstate Highway System?
List three characteristics of the Beat Movement.
What is all black clothing, jazz, poetry, anti-materialism, anti-technology, marijuana, led to the hippies?
Head of the UFW (United Farm Workers); labor leader and civil rights leader; the "Brown MLK"
What is Cesar Chavez?
1963 book written by Betty Friedan that spoke to widespread dissatisfaction amongst post-WWII women, launched the modern Feminist Movement.
What is "The Feminine Mystique?"