Westward Expansion
This is the name given to the rail line that stretched all the way from the East Coast to the West Coast
Transcontinental Railroad
This is the name given to the movement of African Americans out of the South to Northern and Mid-western cities starting in 1916.
The ending of this War preceded the 'Roaring 20's' and is a departure from the austerity of the war.
WWI
This is the President When the Stock Market Crashed in 1929
Herbert Hoover
This is the President that is credited for the New Deal Programs (and was elected 4 times!)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt or FDR
These are the two rail companies that build the continent crossing railroad completed in 1869
Union Pacific and Central Pacific railway companies
Push factors that motivated African Americans in the South include:
Jim Crow Laws, voting restrictions, segregation, physical attacks
This Amendment gave women the right to vote in the United States.
19th Amendment
What is an economic depression?
long term economic downturn that is the result of lowered economic activity.
The New Deal agencies are sometimes called this, which is also a name for a kind of food.
Alphabet Soup
The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed in this year
1882
Pull factors that brought African Americans to Northern and Midwest cities were:
Employment opportunities
This is the name used for the time period when it was illegal to sell, make, or transport liquor in the United States.
Prohibition.
Encampments of people who lost their homes during the Great Depression and turned to living in shack in public places were called this as a dig to the President at the time.
Hoovervilles
This group of people was "Repatriated" or sent back to their country of origin during the Great Depression
Mexicans and Mexican Americans
Colorado became a state in this year
1876
This is the name for the blossoming of art and culture in the African American community in the 1920's and 1930's, continuing well into the 1970's
This city in Oklahoma was where one of the worst race massacres in American History happened in 1921.
Tulsa
This is the name of the Tariff Act that Congress passed in response to the Great Depression but probably worsened the Great Depression instead.
Smoot-Hawley
Name the New Deal agencies that built dams in a river valley and continues to provide electricity from those dams in the river valley to this day.
TVA
These are the 2 Islands that immigrants came to the United States "through"
Angel and Ellis Island
This Harlem Renaissance Jazz artist was know by the nickname "Satchmo"
Louis Armstrong
This is the name for the architecture and decorative style that was popularized during the 1920's and 1930's
Art Deco
This is the photographer who took the photo "Migrant Mother"
Dorothea Lange
These agencies build Red Rocks Amphitheater during the Great Depression as part of New Deal programs in Colorado
CCC and WPA