Great Depression
Racism/Prejudice
Poverty today
Chapter 1
Wild
100
The Great Depression mainly took place during this decade.
What are the 1930's?
100
True or False. Slavery was illegal during the Great Depression.
What is true?
100
True or false. Poverty is not an important issue in the U.S.
What is False?
100
The novel takes place in this state.
What is Alabama?
100
This is the name of the narrator's brother.
What is Jem?
200
The Great Depression was especially difficult for this group of people.
Who are African Americans?
200
This is the name for the laws that enforced segregation in the south.
What is the Jim Crow laws?
200
True or False. Members of minority groups experience statistically higher rates of poverty in the U.S.
What is true?
200
This is the person who is telling the story (the narrator).
Who is Scout?
200
The last name of the main character is.
What is Finch?
300
The day the stock markets crashed and money lost its value was called this.
What is Black Tuesday?
300
This is the name of the organization that is well known for their strong racist ideas and actions.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
300
This is the word that is generally used to refer to help the government provides to people in poverty.
What is welfare?
300
The father in the story does this for a living.
What is practice law?
300
This man was president during the Great Depression (1933-1945)
Who is Franklin Roosevelt?
400
Being a child during the Great Depression often meant losing the opportunity to do this on Saturdays.
What is go to a movie?
400
Name one Jim Crow law you remember from a few weeks ago. Extra points if you can name which state the law is from.
Answers will vary.
400
This is a main characteristic of poverty today. Many of the people in poverty today don't have enough what?
What is hunger. They don't have enough food?
400
The narrator opens the story by talking about this event (that happened to her brother).
What is him breaking his arm?
400
This is the author of the novel.
Who is Harper Lee?
500
The United States' entrance into this event helped end the Great Depression.
What is WWII?
500
This is a short answer question. Describe at least one SPECIFIC way people are still discriminated against today.
Answers will vary.
500
This is the four letter name of the nation's most important anti hunger program.
What is SNAP?
500
This is the name of the city where the story takes place.
What is Maycomb?
500
This is the three letter name of the supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children.
What is WIC?
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