What is the industry started by Charles Boettcher?
100
A group of people who come together to get better pay and safer working conditions.
What is a labor union?
100
Labor Unions would sometimes strike for better working conditions.
What are the similarities between strikes and labor unions?
100
A period of time when there are few jobs and people do not have enough money.
What is a depression?
100
Camp Hale trained soldiers, Colorado men fought in the war and many women became nurses and some even flew planes.
What are three ways Colorado helped during World War II?
200
Working 10-12 hours a day, 6-7 days a week with low pay and dangerous conditions.
What were the poor working conditions of factory and mine workers like?
200
When workers refuse to work until certain conditions are met.
What is a strike?
200
The Dust Bowl and the Great Depression made it hard for people to find jobs and get food.
What are the similarities between the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression.
200
A former soldier.
What is a veteran?
200
Gaining equal rights for all people.
What was the goal with the Civil Rights Movement?
300
A time in history when it was against the law to buy or sell alcohol.
What is Prohibition?
300
A region that suffers from droughts and dust storms.
What is the Dust Bowl?
300
Black American veterans joined in the fight for equal civil rights for all people.
What are the similarities between civil rights and veterans?
300
A smaller town that is outside a larger city.
What is a suburb?
300
Three ways Colorado helped during World War I.
What are Loretto Heights training center, rationing food and Fort Logan being used to train soldiers?
400
Coal production reached an all-time high, farmers got higher prices for their wheat and Colorado industries were busy.
What are three ways the war helped Colorado?
400
Too little water combined with winds that picked up dry oil and caused dust storms.
What caused the Dust Bowl?
400
Many veterans moved to suburbs when they returned home from the war.
What are the similarities between suburbs and veterans?
400
Workers made weapons and equipment for the war, many women worked in factories and people rationed things to help support the soldiers fighting in the war.
What are ways life changed in Colorado and the United States during World War II?
400
The cause of the baby boom after World War II.
What was soldiers returning from way and starting families?
500
Because of these things, people could do things quicker and easier than before.
What is one way new inventions, industries and transportation made life easier for people?
500
Improved the workplace, started Prohibition and helped more people get an education.
What are three ways reformers tried to improve society?
500
Prohibition and rationing both have to do with controlling something.
What are the similarities between prohibition and rationing?
500
There were not enough jobs for everyone and people could not buy food or clothing.
How did the the Great Depression change Colorado's economy?
500
Rachel Noel and other board members voted against segregation and took this matter to court.
What caused Denver schools to finally end segregation?