Immigration and the Red Scare I
Immigration and the Red Scare II
Miscellaneous History
Reconstruction Amendments
The 20's and Gilded Age
100

These top-secret locations allowed for illegal drinking activities to occur. 


What are speakeasies? 


100

What is being depicted and what occurred there?


Ellis Island; the immigration processing center for the Eastern half of the US.

100

An organized criminal group that is run like a business.

Mafia

100

What does the 13th Amendment do?


Abolishes slavery

100

Define the Harlem Renaissance

What is a modern artistic movement in African American culture which was expressed through music, dance, theater, and literature?

200

Who where the Bolsheviks and who were they led by?

Communist revolutionaries in the Russian Revolution; led by Vladimir Lenin

200

What is Xenophobia?

Fear of foreigners

200

Which two countries "fought" in the Pig War?

The US and Britain

200

What does the 15th Amendment do?


Gives all men of color the right to vote

200

What was the cause of the Harlem Renaissance?

Jim Crow/Black Codes, KKK violence, the Great Migration

300

What is the name of debt used to purchase stocks?

Margin

300

What are push and pull factors?



Negative events that make people leave their homelands (push) or positive aspects that attract people to new lands 

300

Who is depicted below:


Al Capone

300

What is being depicted below?  What was its purpose?


A literacy exam made to lower the amount of non-white voters. 

300

What do we call the stock market crash, in 1929, that would help lead to the Great Depression?

Black Tuesday

400

This female-led group linked together the causes of temperance and social reform.


What is the Women’s Christian Temperance Union?


400

What were the Palmer Raids (Purpose and outcome)?

Illegal/unconstitutional raids carried out by the FBI to disrupt radicals. Many immigrants were targeted and deported.

400

What was the Quartering Act?

Forced American colonists to house British soldiers in the buildup to the American Revolution. 

400

What were the Black Codes?  Give two examples. 


A series of laws implemented in the former Confederate states that limited the freedom of African Americans.

Examples: Segregation, Curfews, work requirements punishable by prison time. 

400

It has been said the Harlem Renaissance was... "surely as _____ as it was Black, not that it was exclusively either of these.” 

What other identity flourished the Renaissance?

Gay/LGBTQ+

500

Why was the Sacco and Vanzetti trial controversial? Give two reasons. 

Possible answers:

-Xenophobia against their community

-Another man confessed

-The Red Scare produced panic and civil rights violations resulted

500

Describe capitalism, anarchism and communism.

Capitalism: An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state

Anarchism: Belief in the abolition of all government and capitalism

Communism: A social order based on the ideas of common ownership of the means of production (factories, businesses, farmland) and the absence of social classes, money, and the state

500

What historical event is being depicted below:


Manifest Destiny

500

What are two protections established in the 14th Amendment?

-Equal protection before the law

-Rights to citizenship

 

500

Daily Double!

We studied the Gilded Age families.  Name two families, the companies they ran, what those companies did to become so wealthy.

Rockefellers - Standard Oil - Horizontal Monopoly

Vanderbilts - New York Central RR - Bailed out the government 

Carnegies - Carnegie Steele - Vertical Monopoly