Movement
The movement of large numbers of blacks from the south to northern cities in search of jobs in the early 1900's.
What is the "Great Migration?"
Genre including Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, and Ella Fitzgerald. Flappers danced to it.
What is Jazz?
Betty Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique which is widely credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave ________ in the United States. (think women)
What is feminism?
Our 5th president's 1823 Doctrine of opposing European colonialism in the Americas and isolationism.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez, were co-founders of the National Farmworkers Association in 1965. Their fight for migrant workers' rights began in this state where the Okies had moved to in the 1930's.
What is California?
The immigrants that came to the US from Southern and Eastern Europe(Italy, Russia, Poland...Jews, Catholics) during the late 1800's and early 1900's. The English were the old immigrants.
Who were the "New Immigrants?"
The "Old Immigrants" were from Western Europe(Britain, France, Germany, Ireland)
Era of African American arts and music in the early 1900's. Named after the large black neighborhood in New York City.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
In 1925 this Great novel was written by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald and portrays life in the jazz age of the Roaring 20's.
What is The Great Gatsby?
The US governments first attempt to restrain big business, trusts, and monopolies.
What was the Sherman Anti-trust Act of 1890?
The USA went to war with Spain and almost battled the USSR over the Island of Cuba located only 103 miles from this sunshine state.
What is Florida?
The Homestead Act encourage Americans to settle in this flat open farming area.
What are the "Great Plains?"
Heartland
Midwest
Rebellious genre starting the 1950's including Elvis and the Beatles.
What is rock and roll"
In 1962 Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring which was inspirational to the _____________ movement that sought to save our natural world.
What is environmental?
To further prevent European intervention in the Western Hemisphere and justify American intervention throughout the Western Hemisphere this "big stick" corollary was added to the Monroe Doctrine in 1904.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
This sunny state is home to Phoenix and one of the fastest growing states in the US.
Thanks goodness for air-conditioning.
What is Arizona?
In the 1950's large numbers of workers moved out of the cities into these "bedroom communities" between urban and rural areas.
What are the "Suburbs?"
The music for the average American folks including Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Tracy Chapman, and Joni Mitchell.
What is folk music?
Ernest Hemingway wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, and The Sun Also Rises in which he applies the term "L_____ G________" to the youth of the 1920's.
Who is the Lost Generation?
President Wilson's numbered suggestions for maintaining world peace.(he made some good points)
What were Wilson's 14 points?
This Gulf Coast state between Texas and Mississippi was the hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina.
What is Louisiana?
Today most of the USA's immigrants come from these 2 areas(hint- not countries but regions).
What are Latin America and Asia?
Norman Rockwell, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, and Edward Hopper were all important to this creative genre.
What is American art?
Native Son by Richard Wright, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, and Roots by Alex Haley, poems by Langston Hughs were all written by this type of author.
What are black or African American authors?
The Smoot-Hawley put this kind of tax on foreign goods to try to protect American businesses.
It made the depression worse. (be careful Donald)
What was a tariff?
This Great Lakes state has been the hardest hit by the decline in the US auto industry.
What is Michigan?