Women in American History
20th Century African Americans
Outsiders in the 20s
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
What was the first assembly for women's suffrage?
Seneca Falls Convention
100
Which Supreme Court Case overturned the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision?
Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka
100
Which feature film, produced in 1915, contributed to the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan?
"The Birth of a Nation"
100
What is fear of/extreme hostility towards immigrants?
Xenophobia
100
What was the name of the movement that gripped the nation starting around 1919 and caused severe fear of communism?
The Red Scare
200
Who reshaped the role of the female in society in her book "The Feminine Mystique?"
Betty Friedman
200
For which party did African Americans in the Deep South tend to vote for?
Republican Party
200
Which political party were the outsiders in the 20s associated with?
Democratic Party
200
What is the name for the social movement against the use of alcoholic beverages?
Temperance
200
Which Amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote?
19th Amendment
300
Where did the fire which killed 147 women textile workers occur?
The Triangle Shirtwaist Company
300
Who was the founder of the NAACP(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)?
W.E.B DuBois
300
In which trial was a teacher sentenced to jail for teaching evolution in a Tennessee school?
The Scopes Trial
300
What is the name for poor communities with people of homogeneous ethnicity?
Ghettos
300
Which set of laws restricted African Americans in the South after Reconstruction ended?
Jim Crow Laws
400
During the Progressive Era, who helped raise minimum wage for women?
Mary Kenney O'Sullivan
400
When did African Americans finally begin to exercise their right to vote?
1950s
400
Why did demand for cotton fall by over sixty percent from 1913-1928?
New Womens fashion trends emerged.
400
What is it called when a specific group of people are deprived of their right to vote?
Disenfranchisement
400
Which statement (modeled after the Declaration of Independence), created at the Seneca Falls Convention, declared the eighteen injuries and usurpations against women?
The Declaration of Sentiments
500
What Supreme Court Case stated that women are citizens, but still do not have the right to vote?
Minor vs. Happersett
500
Who was the first African American senator?
Blanche K. Bruce
500
Which bill, proposed in 1924, tried to establish the government's role of purchasing extra grain from farmers, in order to keep prices stable?
McNary-Haugen Bill
500
What is it called when the government pays farmers not to farm?
Parity
500
Which historian designed the "Southern Creed?" (the belief that African Americans must accept their place as peasants, and only receive necessary vocational training)?
Thomas Pierce Bailey