Political Machines
Great Depression
The 1920s
Industrial Revolution
Mr. Nunez
100
The highest level in the four-tiered political machines pyramid.
What is a city boss?
100
These shanty towns built by the homeless, named after the President of the U.S. at the time.
What were Hoovervilles?
100
The era which made the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol illegal.
What is Prohibition?
100
To leave one place and settle in another place.
What is migration?
100
Mr. Nunez’s first name, which usually has two Ts but his only has one.
Who is Mathew?
200
A form of corruption where political machines gained money through illegal means.
What is graft?
200
This occurs when too many people withdraw their money from the bank because they believe the bank will close in the near future.
What is a bank run?
200
Who was Al Capone?
200
This book by Upton Sinclair detailed the unsanitary working conditions of the meat-packing industry.
What is The Jungle?
200
The city which holds three of Mr. Nunez’s favorite sports teams: the Rams, Dodgers, and Lakers.
What is Los Angeles?
300
These people fought against political machines and for social justice.
Who were reformers?
300
What is unemployment rate?
300
Famous jazz trumpeter and singer who was one of the most influential figures in jazz music.
Who was Louis Armstrong?
300
Forms of wealth supplied by nature such as land, water, oil, coal, etc.
What are natural resources?
300
The university Mr. Nunez currently attends to become a credentialed teacher.
What is CSUDH?
400
The most famous political machine during this time, located in New York City and run by “Boss” Tweed.
What is Tammany Hall?
400
The period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American prairies during the 1930s.
What was the Dust Bowl?
400
This law passed by Congress in granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
400
Social philosophy developed by Charles Darwin, also known as “survival of the fittest.”
What is Social Darwinism?
400
What is the Nintendo 64?
500
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Who was Thomas Nast?
500
This was the date of the stock market crash that contributed to the start of the Great Depression.
What is October 29, 1929?
500
Women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for social and sexual norms.
Who were flappers?
500
Critical name given to industrial leaders like John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie who were considered ruthless, unjust, and interested only in power and money.
What is a robber baron?
500
What is Back to the Future?