Labor in TN
What effect did the Black Codes have on African-American's and jobs?
It kept them from getting jobs
Describe how fashion changed at the turn of the century.
(Teacher will decide if correct)
A shootout int he streets of Nashville that ultimately killed Edward McCormack was over what issue?
Prohibition of alcohol
What is the word for giving women the right to vote and what Amendment guaranteed it?
Suffrage, 19th
What does chivalry mean?
Being a gentlemen
What is a "tenant farmer?"
Someone who works on someone else's land -kind of like renting land to farm on.
What was the first self-serve grocery store and what was it called?
Piggly Wiggly in Memphis
Name one of TN's first baseball teams.
Elite Giants, Eurekas, Red Stockings...
As the quantity of an item INCREASES, what happens to it's price assuming demand stays the same?
It decreases
What ship was mysteriously bombed, starting the Spanish-American War?
The USS Maine
Explain what institutionalized means...
(teacher will decide if correct)
What was the Sears Catalogue?
It allowed people to browse items from home, then they could drive to the warehouse and pick them up.
What was the name of one of the first sports announcers and journalists?
Gartland Rice
What was the name of the youngest Representative in the state who tipped the votes for women's suffrage, ultimately allowing the passage of the 19th Amendment?
Harry Burns
What was the name of the segregated African-American group of soldiers in the Spanish-American War
Buffalo Soldiers
Name one place you can find marble mined in TN?
the U.S. Capitol building
Lincoln Memorial
Grand Central Station in NYC
Who was a preacher in TN that set up massive tents and preached to hundreds of people about the sins of gambling and alcohol?
Sam Jones
Opened in 1927, what two parks make up the biggest parks in TN?
Percy and Edwin Warner Park
What were the miner's protesting in the Miner Wars in TN?
The use of convicts for cheap labor.
Which future president was the Rough Riders led by?
Teddy Roosevelt
What was each of the following regions known for in terms of industry?
Knoxville/East
Chattanooga
Memphis/West
Nashville
Knoxville = iron and railroads
Chatt = bakeries/moonpies/cocacola
Memphis = cotton
Nashville = flour mills
How did Tom Ryman make money before he had his spiritual conversion listening to Sam Jones?
He owned a series of casino boats in Nashville
What was the name of the teacher that was found guilty of teaching evolution in Tennessee in 1925?
John Scopes
How did the Night Riders manipulate the prices of tobacco during the Patch Wars in TN?
They would dump salt on tobacco plants and burn fields to lower the supply.
Commander Washburn Maynard shot the first shot of the Spanish-American war from a ship named what?
"Nashville."