Important People
Clara Barton started this organization that helped soldiers and disaster victims.
What is the American Red Cross?
The global war from 1914–1918 that the United States joined in 1917.
What is World War I?
A movement that tried to improve government, working conditions, and society in the early 1900s.
What is the Progressive Movement / Progressive Era?
The severe economic downturn that began in 1929.
What is the Great Depression?
During the early 1900s, many Arkansas families lived and worked on these agricultural areas.
What are farms?
This Arkansas governor helped bring many reforms to the state during the Progressive Era.
Who was George Donaghey?
Arkansas farmers were encouraged to grow more of this crop to help feed soldiers during the war.
What is food crops / cotton / crops for the war effort?
Many people moved from farms to cities to work in these during the early 1900s.
What are factories?
During the Depression, many Arkansas farmers struggled because crop prices were very ____.
What is low?
Many Arkansas farmers did not own their land and instead worked under this system where they paid the landowner with part of their crops.
What is sharecropping?
This famous Arkansas senator strongly supported segregation and opposed civil rights for many years.
Who was Hattie Caraway?
Many Arkansas soldiers trained at this large military camp during World War I.
What is Camp Pike?
This new technology helped connect Arkansas communities and improve travel.
What are automobiles?
Many people lost their jobs and could not afford basic needs like food and housing.
What is unemployment / poverty?
During the Progressive Era, reformers worked to improve public services like this place where children go to learn.
What is schools / education?
This Arkansas woman became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
Who was Hattie Caraway?
Arkansas industries increased production of these supplies needed for the war.
What are weapons, uniforms, and war supplies?
New laws were passed to improve education and reduce this problem among children.
What is child labor?
Government programs during the 1930s helped create jobs and improve roads and buildings.
What is the New Deal?
Many Arkansas communities began building these to make travel easier for cars and trucks.
What are roads / highways?
This Arkansas governor helped improve education and state infrastructure and later donated land and money to help build what is now the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
George Donaghey
When the United States entered World War I in 1917, many Arkansas men joined the military through this system that required men to register for possible military service.
draft (Selective Service Act)
As transportation improved in Arkansas during the early 1900s, the increasing use of this invention helped create demand for better roads.
automobile
During the Great Depression, many Arkansas farmers struggled because the prices for this important crop dropped very low
cotton
This violent event in 1919 in Phillips County occurred when Black sharecroppers organizing for fair crop payments were attacked, becoming one of the worst racial conflicts in Arkansas history
Elaine Massacre