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Challenge
100
Franklin Roosevelt, the President of the United States during the Great Depression, had an idea for starting a program to get people working again. What was the name of this program?
What is the New Deal?
100
What war led to Antebellum Time Period?
What is the American Revolution?
100
New public schools were built for all children, but black and white children went to separate schools according to their race. What is the term for this type of separation?
What is segregation?
100
What part of the labor force was made to work long hours in the textile mills and could no longer attend school?
Who were children?
100
What two events brought about a decline of cotton in the 1920s following WWI? 1. Boll Weevil and over production from the war efforts 2. Coachroaches and new immigrants 3. Cricket and lack of workers 4. Spiders and loss of child workers
What is boll weevil and over production from the war efforts?
200
What started the Great Depression?
What is unemployment?
200
What is the time period before the Civil War called?
What is the Antebellum Period?
200
Which amendment did southern states have to sign before they could re-join the Union?
What is the 14th amendment?
200
Name three ways that describe life in a textile mill?
What is hot, dangerous and noise?
200
After the sharp decline of the textile mills in South Carolina where did many rural families both black and white, move for a better opportunity? 1. West 2. Overseas 3. Up north 4. Down south
What is up north?
300
As many families began leaving the state, what new business attracted more and more visitors to South Carolina?
What is tourism?
300
What is the time period following the Civil War called?
What is Reconstruction?
300
What was the name of the organization set up by the US government to help former slaves get food, clothing, shelter and medicine while also building schools to teach former slaves to read and write?
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
300
In order to get jobs in the textile mills in South Carolina, people began leaving the rural areas and farms and moving where?
What is towns?
300
Within the state another migration was taking place. Why did farmers want to move to the cities like Charleston, Columbia and Greenville in the 1920s? 1. They had good food and drinks. 2. They had good sanitation, transportation. 3. They had video games and Frankie Fun Park. 4. They had skyscrapers and airports.
What is they had good sanitation and transportation?
400
What type of transportation was expanded in the late 19th century and early 20th century that gave rise the textile industry by carrying fabric and thread to places across the country?
What are railroads?
400
What is the economic term for a time period when people can’t make enough money to care for their families because they can’t find work?
What is the Great Depression?
400
What was the name of the laws that separated blacks and whites and set up two unequal and different worlds for them to live in?
What is are Jim Crow laws?
400
Who had less rights under segregation laws in the South following the Reconstruction?
Who were African Americans?
400
One agency in Roosevelt’s program was known as the CCC or Civilian Conservation Corps. What BEST describes the jobs the agency work with? 1. Environmental and State Parks 2. Skyscrapers and Banks 3. Twin Towers and Retail 4. Conder Elementary Teachers
What is the environmental and state parks?
500
A former slave who worked land owned by someone else for a part of the crop was known as a
What is a sharecropper?
500
What time period will come after the Great Depression? Hint: We haven't learned this yet. We will in Chapter 11 : ).
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
500
What amendment gave women the right to vote?
What is the 19th amendment?
500
Economically during WWI how did the textile industry in South Carolina do?
What is it crashed and fell?
500
What are the basic rights of every citizen of our country called? Hint: We haven't learned this yet. We will in Chapter 11 : ).
What are civil rights?
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