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Puritans
Civil War
Jim Crow Era
The Great Depression
Chicago Haymarket Riot
100
This city is remembered as the place where the famous Witch Trials were conducted by Puritans in 1692-193.
What is Salem, Massachusetts?
100
This official announcement by President Abraham Lincoln granted freedom to slaves in 1863.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
This character, first performed by white entertainer Thomas Darthmouth Rice, was supposedly modeled after a slave. Actors who portrayed this character darkened their faces, acted like a buffoon, and spoke with an exaggerated and distorted imitation of African American Vernacular English.
Who is Jim Crow?
100
This American President served during the majority of the Great Depression and headed up several public works programs to stimulate the American economy.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
100
This anarchist was married to Lucy, an African American women's rights activist.
Who is Albert Parsons?
200
This prestigious university was originally founded by Puritans.
What is Harvard University?
200
This woman is one of the best known conductors of the Underground Railroad. She also served for the Union army during the Civil War as a nurse, cook, scout, and spy.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
200
According to Jim Crow etiquette, this was where an African American person was required to sit when riding in a car with a white person.
What is the back seat?
200
This well-known radio personality interviewed many people who lived through the Depression and wrote a book called "Hard Times" about their stories.
Who is Studs Terkel?
200
This is the cause of anarchist Louis Lingg's death.
What is suicide by cigar bomb?
300
This famous Puritan preacher taught that the Puritans had the "Divine Right to Occupy the Land."
Who is John Cotton?
300
In these camps, runaway slaves received the protection of Union army generals in exchange for manual labor and information sharing about the local terrain.
What are contraband camps?
300
In Atlanta, Georgia in 1926, African American barbers were not allowed to serve these customers.
What is white women or girls?
300
In a famous inaugural address in 1933, the president told Americans, many of whom were suffering through the Great Depression, that they had nothing to fear but this.
What is "fear itself"?
300
Workingmen who gathered at McCormick Reaper Works on May 3, 1886 were peacefully protesting to gain what right?
What is the eight-hour work day?
400
The title of this famous speech by John Winthrop is an allusion to a passage in the New Testament. Winthrop delivered this speech to Puritans when they were traveling to the New World.
What is "City Upon a Hill"?
400
This man once said, "I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races.”
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
400
During the Jim Crow era, public spaces like restaurants, schools, and movie theaters often had "whites only" and "colored only" sections because most white citizens supported this kind of policy.
What is segregation?
400
In addition to the failure of the banks and the U.S. economy, this natural phenomenon caused farms to fail during the Great Depression.
What is dust storms?
400
In the anarchists' trials, the prosecution accused them of loving this dangerous thing, which Albert Parsons called "the diffusion of power".
What is dynamite?
500
This classic fiction novel tells the story of a Puritan woman who is shunned by her community for committing the sin of adultery. The engraved illustration "Hester Prynne at the Stocks" depicts a scene from the novel.
What is The Scarlet Letter?
500
This runaway slave wrote a letter to his wife describing life under the protection of Union camps only days before officials demanded that he be returned to his owner.
Who is John Boston?
500
These horrific and violent events, designed to intimidate African Americans to follow Jim Crow etiquette, attracted crowds of spectators during the Jim Crow era.
What is public lynchings?
500
This famous Chicago gangster opened a soup kitchen in Chicago during the Great Depression which fed thousands of hungry people.
Who is Al Capone?
500
This Chicago mayor was known for his resistance to labor reformers and his trademark slouch hat.
Who is Carter Harrison?