Vocabulary Words
The central idea of a source.
What is main idea?
Memphis has a strategic location in part due to the fact that it is situation on this river.
What is the Mississippi River?
These three men founded the city of Memphis in 1819.
Who are Andrew Jackson, James Winchester, and John Overton?
After the death of two garbage collectors, this event sought to gain safer working conditions and better pay for black garbage collectors. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Memphis in support of this event.
What is the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike?
The founder of FedEx.
Who is Fred Smith?
Small particles of rock, like sand, that creates fertile soil in a delta
What is sediment?
This is a historic place in Memphis made up of 800,000 individual stones.
What is the Cobblestone Wharf?
This man was a famous black man who purchased significant land around Beale Street after the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878.
Who is Robert Church?
This was a deadly time period. Memphians either fled the city or stayed. Over 5,000 Memphians died during this three month period.
What is the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878?
A musical duo who wrote many famous hit songs together at STAX.
Who is Isaac Hayes and Otis Redding?
A world history textbook is an example of this kind of source.
What is a secondary source?
This building downtown was the tallest skyscraper in the Southeast for 36 years.
What is the Sterick?
These religious women stayed in Memphis to serve the sick during the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878. All but one of them died from Yellow Fever.
Who is Constance and her Companions?
This city was founded in 1819 and was named after an ancient city in Egypt located on the Nile River.
What is the Founding of Memphis?
A very successful grocery chain started by Clarence Saunders.
What is the Piggly Wiggly?
Sister Constance's letters and diary entries are examples of this type of source.
What is a primary source?
The famous song "Green Onions" by Booker T and the MGs was recorded at this Memphis studio.
What is STAX?
This African American female Activist dedicated her career to fighting segregation in education.
Who is Maxine Smith?
After the Civil War, tensions ran high in Memphis, and the ________ occurred. This event resulted in the death of 46 people. It eventually led to the passage of the 14th and 15th Amendments.
What is the Memphis Massacre?
Sam Philips's radio station that made world history for being the first all female radio station.
What is WHER?
A mode of transportation that uses coal or wood to fuel the fire that creates steam that the engine needs to move.
What is a steamboat?
This is the location of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.
What is the Lorraine Motel?
This African American Activist kept the office of her newspaper, the Free Speech, on Beale Street.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This is the largest maritime disaster in the history of the U.S.. It occurred on the Mississippi River after the Civil War ended.
What is the Sultana Explosion?
This aspect of Early Memphis was defined by the Mississippi River and the cotton industry.
What is the Early Memphis Economy?