Body and Choice
This act is the reason Sanger was arrested twice and put in jail for a month.
What is Comstock Act?
This single-engine plane took Lindbergh across the Atlantic ocean.
What is the Spirit of St. Louis?
The movement that Langston Hughes helped define through his poetry and writing.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This 1908 car made owning an automobile affordable for average Americans.
What is the Model T?
This is the main reason that Margaret Sanger wanted birth control to become available.
What is back alley abortions?
This person was kidnapped in 1932 and was called the “crime of the century”.
What was the Lindbergh kidnapping?
This inspired Langston Hughes to start writing poetry.
What is his grandmother’s storytelling about the realities of racial equality?
This 1913 factory innovation moved the car to the worker, reducing build time and costs.
What is the moving assembly line?
Margaret Sanger created this organization before it became known as Planned Parenthood.
What is American Birth Control League?
Lindbergh worked alongside this person during World War 2 on bombers.
Who is Henry Ford?
This was Langston Hughes’ first famous poem.
What is “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”?
This 1914 pay policy more than doubled typical wages and stabilized the Ford company's workforce.
What is the 5-dollar-a-day wage?
The name of the most prominent scientist to help make the Birth Control Pill.
What is Gregory Pincus?
Lindbergh won this military award, which is normally given for combat, for his 1927 transatlantic flight.
What is the Congressional Medal Of Honor?
This is the name of Langston Hughes' 1926 book that mixed poetry with jazz and blues rhythms.
What is The Weary Blues?
This schedule change that helped create the modern weekend.
What is the 5 day, 40 hour workweek?