An African American artist who depicted the Great Migration in over 60 paintings.
Who is Jacob Lawrence.
100
What was an unintended consequence of prohibition?
What is rise in organized crime?
100
Why did Americans invest so much money in the stock market during the 1920's?
What is they thought they would make money from stocks continuing to rise!
100
What group of people were involved in the Great Migration?
What is African Americans?
100
Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution banned the sale, manufacture and transportation of alcohol in 1920? Please draw a picture that will help us remember this amendment. ALSO please name the time period between when alcohol was banned and when the amendment was repealed?
What is 18th...and picture....prohibition.
200
She was the most famous blues singer of this time period.
Who is Bessie Smith?
200
Why did people stop buying goods during the Great Depression?
What is they lost their jobs and didn't have any money?
200
What are tariffs and how did high tariffs end up hurting American businesses?
What is the fact that other countries stopped trading with us?
200
Where specifically did African Americans go during the Great Migration?
What is northern and mid western cities? New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago.
200
Give two names for the 1920's and spell our principal's last name.
What is the Jazz Age - The Roaring 20's and Vrhovac.
300
Who were the jazz trumpeter, jazz pianist and most famous poet of the time that we learned about?
Who are Louis Armstrong (trumpeter) and Duke Ellington (pianist), and Langston Hughes (poet)?
300
What happened to people who had invested their money in the stock market after it crashed?
What is they lost all of their money?
300
What happened on October 29th 1929 and what was this day knows as?
What is the stock market crashed and it was called Black Tuesday? NOT BLACK FRIDAY!!!! (-:
300
Describe a few attributes of Jacob Lawrence's paintings.
What is minimal detail, mainly primary colors, people without faces usually, kind of a somber feel to some of them, a hopeful feel in others.
300
What manufacturing method did Henry Ford use to make the first affordable automobile and name three types of Fords on the road today.
What is assembly line and Escape, Explorer, Expedition, Fiesta, Focus, Edge, Flex, Mustang etc.
400
These people smuggled illegal alcohol.
Who were bootleggers?
400
Why did prohibition fail?
What is the fact that people found illegal ways to get alcohol and organized crime increased because of it.
400
What happened to stock prices in 1929 and what did shareholders try to do?
What is kept falling and they tried to sell everything.
400
What were three problems that African Americans encountered once they got to the cities in the north and midwest?
What is more prejudice and segregation, crowded housing, not as easy living as they expected...African Americans that had been living and thriving up north were not happy that they were there either.
400
Where did Jazz originate, how did it spread throughout the United states and which Hurricane hit the originating city in 2005?
What is New Orleans, African Americans brought it with them during the Great Migration and Katrina?
500
Name what the trendy young women of the 20's called AND give 3 descriptions of them.
Who were flappers?
500
How were many Americans able to buy stocks in the 1920's and explain how this contributed to banks failing.
What is borrowing from brokers/banks and people borrowed money from the banks, then when the stock market crashed, they were not able to pay the banks back, and the banks could not give people their money when they made "runs on the banks" and banks had to close.
500
Name three causes of the Great Depression.
What is
-High Tariffs hurt international trade
-People borrowed money to buy stocks
-The Federal Reserve failed to prevent bank closures
500
Why did African Americans leave the rural South to go to Northern cities? Give 3 reasons.
What is find a job, escape segregation/prejudice, and hopes of a better life.
500
How were farmers hurt by the Depression? Explain the snowballing effect? Also name the colors of current John Deere tractors.
What is people had no money, so the crop prices had to fall, which meant the farmers weren't making any money, which meant they couldn't pay their bills, which meant they lost their farms and became homeless. Green and Yellow.