It may or may not be "great", but it is a bad time for the economy that affects almost everyone in a society.
What is a depression?
100
Young, daring women in the 1920s who danced and partied and wore the latest fashions.
Who are flappers?
100
Horrible series of drought and wind storms that devastated states in the Great Plains
What is the Dust Bowl?
100
This doubled the size of United States in 1803.
What is Louisiana Purchase?
100
State where Ms. Blake was born.
What is Wisconsin?
200
Even before Visa and Master Card, folks aid "buy now and pay later!". This word describes that process.
What is credit?
200
This neighborhood in NYC was home to all the innovative writers and artists in the 1920s....think Duke Ellington, Ralph Ellison, and Zora Neale Hurston
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
200
Young children who traveled from town to town by jumping onto trains were called this word.
Who are the rail-riders?
200
This President signed the Indian Removal Act, forcing the Cherokee Native Americans from their home. 1/4- 1/3 of the Cherokee died on their forced journey west.
What is Trail of Tears?
200
State where Ms. Blake went to college.
Where is Iowa?
300
Otherwise known as the 18th Amendment.
What is Prohibition?
300
On the more disturbing side, this hate group was at the height of it's popularity in the 1920's, claiming that 15% of the U.S. had a membership.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
300
This group faced a great deal of discrimination during the Great Depression, as businesses refused to hire them.
Who are African-Americans?
300
Ended the War with Mexico. Granted Mexicans living in New U.S. Territory American citizenship. The U.S. half of all land from Mexico
What is Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
300
He happened to be president the year that Ms. Blake was born.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
400
African-Americans started to move from the southern states to the northern states, in search of better economic opportunities and an escape from violent racism.
What is the Great Migration?
400
This trial captivated the nation and posed the question, "Should evolution be taught in schools?"
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
400
Word used to describe a series of programs that Roosevelt put together to pull the United States out of the Great Depression...we will learn about this next week!
What is the New Deal?
400
This terms describes someone from Europe who was forced to work for free for 5-7 years to pay off their journey to the U.S. Many were treated harshly and did not survive their 5-7 years.
Who are Indentured Servants?
400
Ms. Blake's favorite place that she has ever been in the world is home to the Thames River, "Big Ben", and Piccadilly Circus.
What is London?
500
Thanks to this law, Americans can retire and still receive a small monthly income.
What is Social Security Act?
500
Amendment that gave women the right to vote for the first time in 1920.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
500
Name of the disease that, sadly, took the lives of several infants and children during the Dust Bowl
What is Dust Pneumonia?
500
In this document, Abraham Lincoln officially freed enslaved African-Americans in the South.
What is Emancipation Proclamation?
500
Ms. Blake's favorite place to visit in the United States is home to Golden Gate Bridge.