Turn of the Century pt 1
Journalism based on exaggeration.
What is yellow journalism?
This man invented the light bulb, phonograph, and the motion picture camera.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This man made baseball famous with his homeruns.
Who is Babe Ruth?
The Tennessee Valley Authority or TVA was a New Deal program which put people to work
building dams, bridges, and roads.
Protects voting rights for African American men
What is the 15th Amendment?
The amount of something that people want.
These men were the former slaves who did not know what to do with their lives when slavery was over. They proved themselves in areas of horse riding, gun shooting, roping cows and bulls, and other cowboy skills.
Who is the Black Cowboys of Texas?
Who was the African American well known for his writing and poetry during the Harlem Renaissance?
Langston Hughes
During this time 25% of Americans couldn't find jobs.
The Great Depression
The Natural disaster that hit the Great Plains destroying farm land.
What was the dust bowl?
The amount of something that people want to sell at certain prices.
What is supply?
This man's assassination began WW1 in 1914
Who is Archduke Ferdinand of Austria Hungary??
This president created The New Deal which created jobs for people out of work and government assisted programs.
Who is Franklin Roosevelt?
Which was an effect of the Dust Bowl during the 1930s?
Crops in the Great Plains failed, and farmers went bankrupt.
The stock market crash on October 29, 1929, a day known as Black Tuesday, led to
the beginning of the Great Depression.
President during Spanish American War.
Who was William McKinley?
The signing of this document ended WW I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This author wrote "Gone With The Wind" a book about life in the south during the Civil War.
Who is Margaret Mitchell?
The Civilian Conservation Corps or CCC was an organization created during the Great Depression as part of the New Deal. It created jobs for people who didn't have work. What kind of work did people do as part of the CCC?
maintaining state and national forests
One organization of the New Deal was the Works Progress Administration or WPA. What type of work did people do when working for the WPA?
constructed public buildings
This act which allowed settlers to pay a small amount of money and farm land for five years, which they would then own.
What is the Homestead Act?
His work with peanut plants changed life for many Americans and greatly impacted the Southeast United States.
Who was George Washington Carver?
Charles Lindbergh was the first person to
fly a plane solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Why were makeshift towns built during the Great Depression called "Hoovervilles"?
People living there believed President Herbert Hoover should do more to improve the economy.
One reason the United States entered World War I was because of
the sinking of the Lusitania.