Turn of the Century
A job that former slaves could get and not suffer discrimination.
What is a cowboy?
Amendment that gave African American men the right to vote in 1870.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Country that attacked U.S.ships during WWI and sank the Lusitania.
What is Germany?
The countries that made up the Axis Powers.
What was Germany, Italy and Japan?
Laws passed by Southern States to enforce racial segregation.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Taught southern farmers how to rotate crops to improve cotton crop.
Who was George Washington Carver?
Amendment that gave women the right to vote in 1920.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Treaty signed in 1919 that ended WWI.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Surprise attack here by Japan that brought the U.S. into WWII.
What is Pearl Harbor?
African Americans stopped using the buses as a protest in Alabama.
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Helped ships move more quickly between Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
Amendment that gave Washington D.C. residents the right to vote in a presidential election.
What is the 23rd Amendment?
Name given to the culture and changes of the 1920s.
What is the Roaring 20s?
President that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Who is Harry Truman?
African American attorney who argued the case of Brown vs. Board of Education in Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Came from Europe to escape religious persecution.
Who were the immigrants?
Amendment that got rid of the poll tax as a voting requirement.
What is the 24th Amendment?
Period in history that began with the Stock Market Crash in October 1929.
What is the Great Depression?
A military operation that delivered food by plane to residents in Germany.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
Leader in the Civil Rights movement that believed in using non-violent means.
Who is Martin Luther King?
Took advantage of the government offer of free land in the Midwest.
Who were the Homesteaders?
Amendment that changed the voting age from 21 to 18.
What is the 26th Amendment?
A program started by FDR to bring Relief, Recovery and Reform.
What is the New Deal?
The name of the panic about Communism started by Joseph McCarthy.
What is the Red Scare?
Law passed by Congress that outlawed discrimination and banned "separate but equal".
What is the Civil Rights Act?