The Gold Rush
Tall Tales
Early America Vocabulary
Civil Rights Movement
Juneteenth
Freedom and Justice
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
100
In which US state did the Gold Rush take place?
California
100
What is a tall tale?
A story with exaggerated characters and impossible events (sometimes with real characters)
100
Strength and determination
Grit
100
Who gave the famous "I have a dream" speech in 1963?
MLK (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)
100
Who issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, which declared slaves free?
Abraham Lincoln
100
Being forced to work without pay or rights
Slavery
200
What city grew rapidly because of the Gold Rush? (hint: their football team is named after the event)
San Francisco
200
How were tall tales spread?
Word of mouth
200
The edge of unexplored or unsettled land; wilderness
frontier
200
Which civil rights leader was known for his more militant views and the phrase "by any means necessary"
Malcolm X
200
Here's 200 Free Points!!!!!
200
When everyone has the same rights
Equality
300
What was the nickname given to people who traveled to California in 1848 and 1849?
Forty-Niners (49ers)
300
You have a choice.
a. You can be selfish and take 300 points for yourself, b. You can be a nice person and give 300 points to another team.
300
What is another word for exaggeration?
hyperbole
300
Who was the first Black child to integrate an all-white elementary school in the south in 1960?
Ruby Bridges
300
Who is general Gordon Granger?
The general who brought the news of freedom to the people of Galveston Texas
300
Fair consequences for one’s actions
Justice
400
In what year did the California Gold Rush begin?
1848
400
Which folk hero is known for planting trees across the frontier while wearing a cooking pot on his head?
Johnny Appleseed
400
A loud, rough fight
Brawl
400
What protest started when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Alabama?
Montgomery Bus Boycott
400
What year did Juneteenth happen?
1865
400
Keeping people of different races apart
Segregation
500
***DAILY DOUBLE***
What idea or belief led many Americans to move west because they thought it was their God-given right and fate to expand across the land?
500
Which giant lumberjack is known for having a blue ox named Babe?
Paul Bunyan
500
Confidence and courage
Moxie
500
What was the name of the court case that ended school segregation?
Brown v. Board of Education
500
What year did Juneteenth become a federal holiday in the US?
2021
500
Refusing to buy or use something in protest
Boycott