Harlem Renaissance
After WW1, this man, the leader of the NAACP, decided that African Americans could prove themselves in the world of art and literature.
Who was WEB Du Bois?
This is the period in the late twenties and early thirties in which tractors were going at it all night long.
What is the Great Plow Up?
This refers to the dark day, April 14, 1935, when the largest of the storms came ripping through the prairie, eventually even blanketing the East Coast with Kansas Dust. A journalist, writing about the event, would coin the term, The Dust Bowl.
What is Black Sunday?
This happened on December 7, 1941 drawing the US into the Second World War.
What is the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor?
These Northern fellows were out to take advantage of the money and projects that suddenly became available as a result of the Reconstruction.
Who were the carpetbaggers?
This woman became the first female millionaire in the world by selling hair and beauty products specifically for African American women.
Who was Madame C.J. Walker?
The one-way plow replaced this earlier, more effective and eco-friendly plow.
What is the Lister Plow?
These pesky rodents, with no coyotes to keep them in check, went on the rampage. Groups of people gathered to hold drives to corral them and beat them to death.
What are rabbits?
On this day, June 6, 1944, American troops among allies landed on the coast of Normandy, beginning the battle to take Germany.
What is D-day?
These folks, having caught the "wheat madness," were city slickers who came out to the prairies only to plant and then harvest wheat on land they purchased. They simply traveled to and fro and did not live there.
Who were the "suitcase farmers?"
This was the premier club in Harlem, drawing white audiences from greater New York.
What is the Cotton Club?
This is the name for the largely uninhabited piece of prairie land between Texas and Kansas, which became part of Oklahoma.
What is No Man's Land?
Who is Woody Guthrie?
In June in 1942, Americans won a decisive victory here on this small island against the Japanese Imperial Navy, ending their aspirations to control the entire Pacific Ocean.
What is Midway?
Whether from Arkansas, Oklahoma, or Texas, all of these climate refugees ended up in California under the same name.
Who were the "Okies?"
This musician and activist refused to perform in front of segregated audiences.
Who is Paul Robeson?
This refers to the dark day, October 29, 1929, when the stock market crashed.
What is Black Tuesday?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt replaced this president, after whom shanties called "Hoovervilles" got their name.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
This was a month-long battle in which the Americans under Patton and Eisenhower turned back the final German offensive.
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
These fellows answered no to the two questions posed to Japanese Americans during the internment. They inevitably ended up in Tule Lake.
Who were the "No No Boyz?"
"You gave us beer; now give us water," is the slogan referring to the repealing of this amendment concurrent with the rise of the drought in the prairie.
What is the Eighteenth Amendment?
This part of the New Deal created what some folks called "made up work," but many depended upon to keep from starving.
What is the WPA?
This battle is infamous as one of the largest, longest and bloodiest engagements in modern warfare: From August 1942 through February 1943, more than two million troops fought in close quarters – and nearly two million people were killed or injured in the fighting, including tens of thousands of Russian civilians. But the battle ultimately turned the tide of World War II in favor of the Allied forces.
What is Stalingrad?
These folks may not have even worn boots, but they made strong drinks that would have knocked them off if they had. This was during Prohibition.
Who were the "bootleggers?"