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Wildcat Questions
100

He was the president when the stock market crashed and the Great Depression began.

Herbert Hoover

100

The belief that the United States was destined to expand from “sea to shining sea.”

Manifest Destiny
100

The migration of southern African Americans to the North beginning in the early 1920's.

The Great Migration

100

Style of fighting during WWI that was fought in ditches.

Trench Warfare

100

The name of BOTH islands that would process immigrants during the late 19th century into the 20th century. One was in California, the other NYC. 

Angel Island and Ellis Island.

200
This man was assassinated to begin WWI?
Who is Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand?
200

Moving into a new country or region to settle there.

Immigrate

200

The migration of people to California beginning in 1848.

California Gold Rush

200

The name of the Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire during WWI. 

Central Powers

200

3 Native American groups living in Wisconsin during European settlement to the area. 

Potawatomi, Ojibwe, Ho-Chunk, Dakota Sioux, Menomonee, or Oneida. 

300

U.S. President who worked with the U.S. Congress to pass the New Deal. 

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

300

Unfair treatment of a group of people.

Discrimination

300

October 24, 1929 is known as this. It was the day a record amount of stock values plummeted. 

Black Tuesday

300

The name of the programs the U.S. government set up to help Americans during the Great Depression. 

New Deal

300

Name of the passenger ship that was sunk by German U-Boats helping trigger U.S. involvement in WWI. 

Lusitania

400

This group of people emigrated from their homeland and immigrated to the U.S. because for religious reasons, but mainly due to starvation from the potato blight (famine).

Irish

400

A message intended primarily to serve the interests of the messenger.

Propaganda

400

This organization was formed after the WWI to help prevent future world wars.

League of Nations

400

We are the 4 main Allied Powers during WWI.

Great Britain, France, U.S. and Russia

400

WWI officially ended on this day of this month in 1919.

What is Nov. 11th?

500

Any musical artist, visual artist, or writer in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance.

Langston Hughes

WEB Dubois

Duke Ellington

Billy Holiday

Louis Armstrong

Ella Fitzgerald




500

A time of intense difficulty, trouble, or danger.

Crisis

500

This treaty was imposed upon Germany at the conclusion of the WWI.

What is the Treaty of Versailles?

500

A man made environmental disaster happened North Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, etc., devastating farms across these lands. What is this disaster known as?

Dust Bowl

500

The passage of African slaves from Africa to North America. 

Middle Passage