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Previously On CO History...
Progressivism (for real this time)
Farming/Ranching
1920/1930s
World War 2
100
The U.S. Colonel commanded the attack during the Sand Creek Massacre
Who is Colonel John Chivington
100
What issues did the Progressive Era address?
What is the negative aspects of the Gilded Age
100
Name the largest problem that farmers faced in the late 1800s/early 1900s
What is overproduction
100
This outbreak killed over 8000 Coloradans
What is the Spanish Flue
100
Who bombed Pearl Harbor?
Who is the Japanese Empire
200
This Bonanza region was named after a cow became injured, a horse fell over the cow, and the man fell off of the horse.
What is Cripple Creek.
200
These people investigated companies and factories to expose the dangerous/unsanitary conditions to the American people
What are Muckrakers
200
What did Ango-Americans discover with Colorado's climate?
What is semarid
200
This group rose in power in the 1920s, preaching the message of protecting the way of life of Coloradans from outsiders and radicals
Who was the KKK
200
Name one of the three main Prisoner of War camps that held captured German and Italian prisoners
What is Camp Carson, Greeley, or Trinidad
300
This was an attack by the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel & Iron Company camp guards on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families on April 20, 1914. Some two dozen people, including miners' wives and children, were killed.
What is the Ludlow Massacre
300
Who wrote The Jungle
Who is Upton Sinclair
300
This event throughout the 1930s decimated Colorado farmers
What is the Dust Bowl
300
This was FDR's program during the Great Depression that hoped to end it
What is the New Deal
300
Name the Japanese relocation camp in Colorado.
What is Amache
400
This was a civil rights movement extending the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s with the stated goal of achieving Mexican American empowerment.
What is the Chicano Movement
400
This group pushed (successfully) for a law that outlawed women from saloons
Who is the "Anti-Saloon" League
400
What is the biggest benefit eastern Colorado had for ranchers? (according to the book)
What is free grass
400
This device grew in popularity in the 1930s, and allowed Americans to hear FDR's fireside chats during the Great Depression
What is the radio
400
This practice was enforced throughout Colorado to ensure that American troops received enough supplies
What is Rationing
500
This treaty allocated much of eastern Colorado to the Cheyennes and Arapahos in 1851
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie
500
Name the "Denver Triad" that moralists attacked during the Progressive Era
What is gambling, brothels, and saloons
500
The Union of Colony Association was formed in this town/city, after buying 72,000 acres of land charging farmers $155 membership fees.
What is Greeley
500
Name one of the two New Deal groups who helped build Red Rocks
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), or the Work Projects Administration (WPA)
500
The Japanese surrendered on this date.
What is August 14, 1945