MI and World War II
Struggle for Equal Rights
Michigan Today
Vocabulary
100
What did was made in Henry Ford's Willow Run plant?
What are bombers?
100
Who led the march in Detroit in 1963?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
100
What does the Mackinac Bridge connect?
What is the upper and lower peninsulas?
100
This means a place where weapons are made or stored.
What is an arsenal?
200
What was rationed during World War II?
What is beef, gasoline and rubber?
200
What does integrate mean?
To combine or put together.
200
This event caused the American auto manufacturers to lose sales.
What is the OPEC oil embargo?
200
What does it mean if there is a scarcity of something?
There is a short supply.
300
Why did the U.S. enter World War II?
What is Japan's attack on an American naval base?
300
Why did many African Americans move to Michigan from the South?
What is to find jobs in factories.
300
What step did Michigan take to protect the environment?
They passed the Scenic Rivers Act.
300
This means people can only get a limited amount.
What is rationed?
400
Who was the character that represented women workers during World War II?
Who is Rosie the Riveter?
400
Who was Coleman Young?
The first African American elected mayor in Detroit.
400
Who was the civil rights leader that refused to get off the bus?
Who is Rosa Parks?
400
When one group or person thinks they are better than another.
What is a racist?
500
Summarize the role that MI played in World War II.
Many people from MI joined the military. MI factories produced tanks, jeeps and planes. Mi was the "arsenal of democracy."
500
Compare and contrast the lives of African Americans before and after the civil rights movement.
Before the civil rights movement, African Americans suffered from unfair treatment. Afterwards, laws protected their right to equal treatment.
500
Michigan has the eighth-largest population of all the states. How many people live in Michigan today?
10 million
500
To have equal treatment is to have what?
What is civil rights?
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