Vocabulary
People
1900-1920
1920-1929
1929-1950
100
Denying rights
What is discrimination?
100
fought for the rights of Tejanos
Who is Jovita Idar?
100
when fighting broke out between two groups for power in Mexico
What is the Mexican Revolution?
100
the name of a period of good times and prosperity after the war was over
What is the Roaring Twenties?
100
the stock market crashes and people lose money and jobs
What is the Great Depression?
200
share of ownership in a company
What is stock?
200
was president who instituted the New Deal
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
200
Germans sink the Lusitania and create blockades for supply ships
What is the reason US entered WWI?
200
more refineries were over built to handle the demand for gasoline
What is the manufacturing of cars and trucks?
200
farmers did not conserve the land or enrich the soil causing horrible storms that destroyed crops and homes
What is the Dust Bowl?
300
a certificate given in exchange for money
What is bond?
300
Congressman from Texas who helped to pass many New Deal acts
What is Sam Rayburn?
300
they went and worked in the factories because the men went to war
What did women do to help in wartime?
300
a form of music that originated with African American musicians
What is jazz?
300
the program that allowed the government to create many new jobs to pay people to go back to work and try to recover from the Great Depression
What is the New Deal?
400
a type of music
What is jazz?
400
First female governor of Texas
Who was Miriam "Ma" Ferguson?
400
she had a flight school and was the first woman to fly mail from city to city
Who was Katherine Stinson?
400
organization that caused trouble during the 1920's that Ma Ferguson spoke out against
What is the KKK?
400
the island that was bombed on December 7, 1941 and caused the US to enter WWII
What was Pearl Harbor?
500
the right to vote
What is suffrage?
500
these two men received the Medal of Honor in WWII
Who were Cleto Rodriguez and Audie Murphy?
500
the year that women got the right to vote in the US
What happened in 1920?
500
forms of art that were popular during the 1920s
What was movies and jazz?
500
was a writer during the 1900-1950s
Who was either Katherine Anne Porter or J. Mason Brewer?
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