Vocabulary
Toys
Alfred Wegener
Sports
Immigration
100
A long narrow ditch embanked with its own soil and used for concealment and protection in warfare.
What is a trench?
100
Christmas time.
What is the time most toy purchases occurred.
100
Wegener’s profession.
What is a meteorologist?
100
The biggest name in boxing during the time period
Who is Jack Johnson?
100
Famine and Poverty
What is why the Irish immigrated to the United States.
200
Any various small, flat wingless insects with sucking mouth parts, that are parasitic on humans and other animals
What is a louse?
200
Teddy Bear
What is the toy that led to companies creating and producing stuffed animals.
200
He pioneered the use of __________ to track atmospheric circulation.
What are weather balloons?
200
The reason that the biggest name in boxing was not treated like a sports hero.
What is he was African-American?
200
Land to raise herds of sheep.
What is the reason the French immigrated to the United States.
300
The point of the earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake.
What is an epicenter?
300
Raggedy Ann
What is one of the most influential dolls of the decade?
300
He traveled to ________ many times to study climate and weather patterns.
What is Greenland?
300
This sport was only enjoyed by the rich and upper middle class.
What is golf?
300
Neighborhoods where people spoke the same language and shared the same culture.
What are ethnic neighborhoods?
400
The site of an archeological exploration.
What is an excavation?
400
Milton Bradley Company
What is the company that created the game of Life?
400
Thirty years after his death advances in _______ and __________ confirmed Wegener’s ideas.
What are sonar and oceanography?
400
Became one of the most popular spectator sports of the early 20th century.
What is football?
400
Apartment houses that were often built without regard for safety concerns and often lacked heat or water.
What are tenements?
500
The four fluids of the body.
What are the humors?
500
A.C. Gilbert
What is the name of the person who created the erector set?
500
The book Wegener wrote on Continental Drift Theory.
What is The Origins of Continents and Oceans?
500
Game that developed from the British game called Rounders.
What is baseball?
500
On March 25, 1911, one of the worst workplace disasters took place in the Asch Building in New York City.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
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