Really Old US History
Post WWI America
People
Antebellum America
Women
100
Jamestown and Cheseapeake Bay were two colonies noted for growing this cash crop.
What is tobacco?
100
The new independent woman of the 1920s.
What is a flapper?
100
He was a Tennessee teacher who illegally taught evolution, leading to the so called Monkey Trial.
Who is John Scopes?
100
The Antebellum era ended with the start of this conflict.
What is the Civil War?
100
This women's suffrage advocate is remembered for her aggressive tactics and a failed dollar coin.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
200
The Continental Army was led by this general in our fight for freedom in the 18th century.
Who is George Washington?
200
A new technology which allowed people to hear news and music in their homes in the 1920s.
What is a radio?
200
His presidency was remembered for corruption and the start of Prohibition.
Who is Warren Gamiel Harding?
200
The size of America doubled as a result of the actions taken by this president during his first term in office.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
Founder of the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
300
Columbus and other European explorers were able to easily conquer many of the Indian tribes in America because of this.
What is disease (or smallpox)?
300
This movement included Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, and Langston Hughes, amongst others.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
300
He believed in teaching African Americans useful job skills and did so through his Tuskegee Institute.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
300
This invention is nicknamed the Victorian internet because it allowed for the fast movement of information during the early 1800s.
What is the telegraph?
300
The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 demanded greater rights for this group.
Who are women?
400
Thomas Paine wrote this famous broadside in 1776 in an attempt to convince the colonists to support the fight for freedom.
What is Common Sense?
400
The introduction of this form of government in Russia led to a great deal of fear and concern in the US following WWI.
What is communism?
400
His Frontier Thesis stated that America's culture came largely from our settlement of the American West.
Who is Frederick Jackson Turner?
400
A small scale civil war broke out in this Midwest state over whether or not to allow slavery to exapnd into it during the 1850s.
What is Kansas?
400
Women are not included as part of the draft, which is also known as _______ Service.
What is Selective?
500
The failure of the Article of Confederation to govern effectively became obvious after this armed uprising occurred over high taxation in 1786.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
500
These laws, which were passed by Congress during WWI, were upheld as legal by the Supreme Court in 1919 and are still on the books today.
What are the Sedition and Espionage Acts?
500
First name shared by three famous women: ____ McKinley (first lady) ____ B. Wells Barnett (journalist/advocate) ____ Tarbell (muckraker)
What is Ida?
500
The invention of this by Robert Fulton in 1807 allowed goods to travel quickly up and down rivers before the Civil War.
What is the steamboat?
500
Immigrants, including women, who come to the US for a short time just to earn money and then leave again to return to their own country are known as
What are birds of passage?
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