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Alphabet Soup
100
This controversial Tennessee figure was a U.S. Representative, the 15th Governor of Tennessee, the Military Governor, Vice President, 17th President, and U.S. Senator, in that order.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
100
Who is Anne Dallas Dudley?
100
More than 80,000 Tennesseans were drafted into this Great War, some going into the 30th "Old Hickory" division.
What is World War I?
100
This prestigious Nashville university expelled student James Lawson for participating in Civil Rights activities.
What is Vanderbilt University?
100
This agency was designed to help control floods, produce electric power, and help improve the lives of people living in the Tennessee Valley.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
200
This disease spread though the Mississippi Valley in 1878, hitting Memphis especially hard- killing over 5,000 people in 4 months.
What is yellow fever?
200
This is the number of states needed to ratify the 19th Amendment.
What is 36?
200
During this 20th century war, Tennessee hosted 11 prisoner of war camps, including Crossville, Memphis, Tullahoma, and Clarksville.
What is World War II?
200
This was the first public school to be desegregated in the South.
What is Clinton High School?
200
This agency worked on building five Tennessee state parks, planting trees, and working on soil conservation projects.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
300
This man was one of the leaders of the Black Exodus movement, having escaped slavery in Davidson County. After emancipation, he helped others get to Kansas.
Who is Benjamin "Pap" Singleton?
300
This anti-suffragist said in a 1920 speech that the anti-suffrage movement was a "Holy War, a crusade in memory of my Mother for Southern Motherhood..."
Who is Josephine Pearson?
300
This Pall Mall resident is the most decorated Allied common solider of World War I.
Who is Alvin (Cullum) York?
300
This prominent Civil Rights leader got Mayor Ben West to admit that Nashville lunch counters should be desegregated.
Who is Diane Nash?
300
This group created and repaired roads, and constructed public housing, schools, and hospitals, and built the Nashville Supreme Court Building.
What is the Public Works Administration (PWA)?
400
This anti-lynching activist was also a vocal supporter of women's rights, and a co-founder of the NAACP.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
400
This legislator said that, "A man can never go wrong when he does what his mother tells him to do".
Who is Rep. Harry Burn?
400
This war saw the introduction of poison gas, tanks, trench warfare, machine guns, blimps, planes, and torpedoes.
What is World War I?
400
What is Highlander Folk School?
400
The Emergency Conservation Work Act (ECWA) and the National Park Service (NPS) allocated 1.5 million dollars in 1934 to this East Tennessee National Park.
What is the Great Smoky Mountains National Park?
500
This was Tennessee's first African American legislator.
Who is Sampson Keeble?
500
This West Tennessee city was home to Tennessee's first woman suffrage organization (1889).
What is Memphis?
500
This woman was the first US pilot to encounter the Japanese air fleet during the Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), and the first female pilot in American history to die on active duty (1943).
Who is Cornelia Fort?
500
This Nashville lawyer represented the students arrested for the Nashville sit-ins; as a result, his home was bombed in April 1960 (the blast also blew out over 100 windows at Meharry Medical College).
Who is Z. Alexander Looby?
500
In Nashville alone, workers of this program restored Civil War-era Fort Negley, completed projects at Percy and Edwin Warner Parks, worked at the Hermitage, refurbished public schools, improved city parks, built a city garage and repair building, and completed almost twenty-five miles of street work.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?