Show:
Native Americans
The Civil War
The Industrial Revolution
World War I
World War II
100
The journey of the Cherokee to Indian Territory was called this trail.
What is The Trail of Tears. (talk about)
100
Our country, during the Civil War, was divided into these two parts.
What are the Union and the Confederacy or Confederate States of America?
100
This man invented a process to turn iron ore into steel.
Who is Henry Bessemer?
100
This is the time span for WWI.
What is 1914-1918?
100
This is the time span for WWII.
What is 1939-1945?
200
This Native American lady traveled with Lewis and Clark.
Who is Sacagawea? (tell more about the expedition of Lewis and Clark)
200
This is the name of the first battle of the Civil War fought in Charleston, South Carolina. South Carolina was also the first state to succeed.
What is the battle of Fort Sumter?
200
Name two of the four "Greats" to come out of the Industrial Revolution and tell what they did.
Andrew Carnegie - steel J.P. Morgan - finance/banks J.D. Rockefeller - oil Cornelius Vanderbilt - steam boats/transportation
200
The ruler of Germany at the start of WWI. Wanted Germany to control more land and was willing to form an alliance with any country to provoke war...
Who is Kaiser Wilhelm?
200
This event caused the U.S. to enter WWII.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (Hawaii was not yet a state, but we had an air base there.)
300
Made of wood and covered with mud, these dwellings were home to the Navajo.
What is a hogan? (tell what you remember of our trip to Olcmulgee)
300
Commander of the Union Army. Commander of the Confederate Army. (two part answer)
Who is Ulysses S. Grant? Who is Robert E. Lee?
300
Many of the workers in the factories that were operating during the I.R. were from other countries and had come here to work and find a better life. What do we call these groups of people?
What are immigrants?
300
This man was murdered and provided Kaiser Wilhelm the fuel he needed to start a war.
Who is Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary.
300
Name all of the Axis Powers and all of the Allied Powers.
Axis: Italy, Germany, Japan Allied: U.S., Great Britain, and Russia flip flopped back and forth
400
True or False: All Native Americans lived in teepees.
What is False. Only the tribes who moved around a lot lived in teepees.
400
This Union leader led a march across the south from Atlanta to Savannah, leaving a path of destruction in his wake and effectively crippling the South.
Who is Sherman?
400
This mail service came about in 1860 to speed up the mail.
What is The Pony Express?
400
The U.S. President during WWI.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
400
Name the leaders of the Axis Powers.
Italy: Mussolini Germany: Hitler Japan: Hirohito and then Tojo Russia was Stalin
500
This Cherokee developed a written language.
Who is Sequoyah?
500
Many times, our government tried to keep representation equal in congress by agreeing on different land compromises as states were being admitted into the union. The nation was divided as to whether or not to own slaves. So, these compromises allowed for equal number of slave states and free states. Name the compromise of 1820 and describe what it allowed.
What is the Missouri Compromise? - admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and admitted Maine as a free state. (review your cards to cover other causes of the war)
500
What were the first words spoken over the telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell?
What is, "Mr. Watson, come here; I want you!"
500
Germany presented two different threats to the U.S. that caused the U.S. to enter the war. One was promising Mexico a part of the U.S. if Germany won the war! The other was the sinking of the Lusitania and the threat from these German submarines called....
What are U boats?
500
At the end of WWII this political view still survived and was a very big threat.
What is Communism?