The Progressive Era
The Woman reformer who established a famous settlement house (Hull House) to help immigrants and poor people in America.
Who is Jane Addams
The President of the US who wanted to join WWI to defend democracy and humanitarianism.
Who is Woodrow Wilson
Unequal distribution of wealth, overproduction, buying on the margin and over speculation were all causes of what.
What is the Great Depression
This early president’s foreign policy emphasized neutrality and a warning against permanent alliances as a guiding principle.
Who is George Washington
In video games, this term describes a hidden feature or joke placed by developers for players to find.
What is an Easter Egg?
What movie character said this. "I'm bad, and that's good. I'll never be good, but that's not bad."
Who is Ralph- Wreck it Ralph?
"Taste Like Strawberries on a Summer Evening"
Watermelon Sugar- Harry Styles
Theodore Roosevelt signed the Meat Inspection Act in response mostly to this book
Double: Who is the author
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
Give at least two reasons why the U.S. eventually entered WWI
Zimmerman telegram, sinking of Lusitania, unrestricted submarine warfare" by the Germans
The fear of Communism and anarchy after WWI was called this
The First Red Scare
This mid-1700s conflict became a major turning point that increased British debt and helped lead to imperial taxation in the colonies.
What is the French and Indian War?
This logical fallacy attacks the person instead of the argument—basically arguing like a comment section.
What is ad-hominem fallacy?
In this movie, a musician is accidentally sent to the afterlife—then learns what it means to have a “spark.”
What is Soul?
"I used to float, Now I just fall down"
What was I made for- Billie Eilish
The abuse of alcohol and the rise of the temperance movement led to this
Double: What is the amendment?
The passing of the 18th Amendment, or Prohibition
Why did Congress not want to join the League of Nations after WWI?
America wanted to remain "isolationist" following WWI
An example of a new consumer product in the 1920s that was also used as a form of advertisement.
What is the Radio
This speech during the Civil War freed slaves in openly rebelling Southern States.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Originating from a background in acting, the star of hit show "Community" also leads a second successful career as rapper with modern hits such as "This Is America" and "Redbone"
HINT: You can say his real name or stage name
Who is Childish Gambino/Donald Glover
This 1993 blockbuster directed by Steven Spielberg highlights the horrors that can happen when "Life, finds a way?"
What is Jurassic Park?
"I never meant to cause you any sorrow
I never meant to cause you any pain"
What is Purple Rain- Prince
Founded in 1909, this organization used court challenges and legal strategy to fight segregation and disenfranchisement.
What is the NAACP?
The movement of over 2 million African-Americans out of the South into the north for industrial jobs and economic opportunity.
What is the Great Migration
The media went crazy covering this trial that debated the merits of evolution being taught in public schools in Tennessee
The Scopes Monkey Trial
This Progressive Era president argued the federal government should intervene to regulate big business in the public interest.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This “rule” says a triangle’s three angles add up to 180 degrees.
What is the Triangle Sum Theorem?
This movie features a jazz drummer pushed to the edge by a brutal instructor who asks, “Were you rushing or were you dragging?”
What is Whiplash?
"But the kid is not my son"
What is Billie Jean- Michael Jackson
This journalist’s series on Standard Oil revealed monopolistic tactics and shaped antitrust sentiment.
Who is Ida Tarbell?
Women were encouraged to start these in order to grow their own food to help with rationing.
What are Victory Gardens?
Protective Tariff on Imported goods placed by Hoover to try and ease the Great Depression. However, it made things worse.
What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
1857 Supreme Court case in which Congress passed down the ruling that African American's were not considered citizens in the eyes of the US Government.
What is Dred Scott v Sanford
Glossophobia is a common fear of performing this task
What is Public Speaking
This South Korean movie won Best Picture (2020 Oscars) and centers on two families whose lives collide in increasingly tense ways.
What is Parasite?
"On a dark desert highway, Cool Wind in my Hair"
What is Hotel California- Eagles?