FOLK TALES
RAISIN IN THE SUN
QUOTATIONS
CHARACTERS
VOCABULARY
100
This amendment abolished slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
100
Africa, Asia, Antarctica, Australia, North America, South America, and Europe.
What are the (7) continents?
100
A person who wants to see CHANGE OCCUR is known as a...
What is a reformer
100
I was the person who ran (started) the Hull House.
Who is Jane Addams?
100
A tall building that looked tall enough to scrape the sky.
What is a skyscraper?
200
This amendment gave Congress the power to tax income (sales tax, property tax, income tax, and estate / death tax)
What is the 16th Amendment?
200
The branch that ENFORCES the laws
What is the Executive Branch?
200
A person who fights for the right to vote
What is a suffragist?
200
Lucy Burns, Alice Paul, Susan B. Anthony, and Carrie Chapman Catt all have this in common.
Who are the important suffragists (leaders) from the Women's Rights Movement?
200
A settlement house that people could go to seek housing, health care, food, and clothing.
What is Hull House?
300
This amendment was pushed by the women to help ban (stop) the sale of alcohol (liquor)
What is the 18th Amendment?
300
A state that has not decided how they will vote (Democrat or Republican)
What is a swing state?
300
Another word for the term protest (synonym)
What is picketing?
300
African-American woman who fought against lynching and fought for women's rights. She refused to walk at the back of the line in the parade with Alice Paul.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
300
The first stop for most immigrants from EUROPE located in New York
What is Ellis Island?
400
Senators are elected by the PEOPLE rather than state legislatures.
What is the 17th Amendment?
400
A war fought within the SAME country
What is a civil war?
400
To refuse to eat in order to further your cause (goal)
What is a hunger strike?
400
I wrote the book the Jungle where I described the disgusting conditions seen in the meat packing plants.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
400
The COURT CASE that said "separate but equal" facilities did not violate the 14th Amendment.
What is Plessy versus Ferguson
500
This amendment gave women the right to vote. It is associated with the women's suffrage movement.
What is the 19th Amendment?
500
I killed (assassinated) former President Abraham Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
500
Alice Paul and Lucy Burns believed this EVENT would be an excellent way to educate people, bring about awareness to their cause, and have added publicity. This event that they held in the film - Iron Jawed Angels was..
What is a parade?
500
I am the man who bought a first class train ticket and was told to sit in coach because I was African-American. I was arrested because I refused to move my seat.
Who is Homer Plessy?
500
A group of writers that exposed CORRUPTION in American society.
Who are the muckrakers?