American Identity and American Dream
Roaring 20's, Gilded Age, and Industrial Revolution
Great Depression and New Deal
Natives and Newcomers
Potpourri
100
In order to study "HISTORY" instead of MEMORY, we need THIS.

What are MULTIPLE POINTS OF VIEW?

100

This was a CAUSE of the Second Industrial Revolution:

GEOGRAPHIC

What is more land for expansion across the country, 

DEMOGRAPHIC

What is Large increases in population due to immigration as well as more food and people?

LEGAL/POLITICAL

The US made policies that further fueled development across the country?

100

During the 1920’s, the clash between science and religious fundamentalism resulted in the:

What is the SCOPES TRIAL?

100

This is the main DIFFERENCE between an immigrant and a migrant.

WHAT IS:

- Immigrants move somewhere permanently, migrants do not?

100

This is the Heisman Trophy winner for the 2024 NCAA football season

Who is TRAVIS HUNTER?

200

This is the common values and shared belief in individual freedom that define America.

What is the AMERICAN IDENTITY?


or: HISTORIOGRAPHY?

200

This was a POSITIVE effect of the Second Industrial Revolution.

WHAT IS:(Economic) economic growth for the country as a whole? (Not individual workers), Access to consumer goods at lower prices, (Innovation) access to new technologies and transportation, urban development.

200

FDR used this format when communicating with the American People.

What are FIRESIDE CHATS?

200

The belief that God wanted the USA to spread their territory from coast to coast.

What is MANIFEST DESTINY?

200

This song spent the most weeks at #1 on the Billboard "Hot 100" in 2024.

What is "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" by Shaboozey?

300

This is the ideals of freedom, equality, and opportunity traditionally held to be available to every American.

What is the AMERICAN DREAM?

300

These were journalists (including Jacob Riis) who often wrote scandalous articles about large corporations to expose corruption against common workers.

What are Muckrakers?

300

Describe TWO New Deal projects, what they did, and if they were reform/relief/recovery.

Answers will vary?

CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS (CCC)

THE GLASS-STEAGALL ACT and the FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORP. (FDIC) 

FEDERAL EMERGENCY RELIEF ADMIN (FERA)

AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT (AAA) 

NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY ACT (NIRA or NRA)

PUBLIC WORKS ADMINISTRATION (PWA)

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION (SEC)

SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION (SSA)

TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY (TVA) 

WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION (WPA)

FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT of 1938 (FLSA)

FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION of 1934 (FHA)

RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION ACT (RFCA)

U.S. TRAVEL BUREAU (TB)

CIVIL WORKS ADMINISTRATION (CWA)

NATIONAL YOUTH ADMINISTRATION (NYA)

PUBLIC WORKS OF ART PROJECT (PWAP)

FEDERAL WRITERS PROJECT (FWP)

FEDERAL MUSIC PROJECT (FMP)

FEDERAL THEATER PROGRAM (FTP)

BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION (BPA)

INDIAN ARTS AND CRAFTS BOARD (1935)

TREASURY RELIEF ART PROJECT (TRAP)


300

The USA government's policy of ASSIMILATION causes these to become popular educational centers for Native Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries.

What are INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOLS?

300

This MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRY recently went through a revolution that replaced Bashar al Asaad, a dictator who had rules for 24 years.

What is SYRIA?

400

DAILY DOUBLE:

This is an example of something that potentially PREVENT people from achieving the AMERICAN DREAM.

You will receive 400 points for each correct response (up to 4) and MINUS 400 for INCORRECT answers!

Answers will vary: could include

- immigration status, racist laws, parents' income level, parents' education level, many other answers!

400

This concept, related to purchasing products to help gain "The American Dream," began during the Industrial Revolution (or before) and continues to this day.

What is CONSUMERISM?

400

DAILY DOUBLE: With your group, write down TWO CAUSES and TWO EFFECTS (with correct SPRITE label) of the Great Depression.

What are: 

CAUSES:

(Economic) Stock Market Crash, Buying on credit, buying on margin, overproducts, reduction of consumer spending, (Evironmental) Dust Bowl, 

EFFECTS:

(Economic) Widespread unemployment, (social) Hoovervilles - Homelessness, New Deal (FDR), etc

400

The "GOLDEN SPIKE" ceremony signified the completion of this major US Infrastructure in (Utah in 1869).

What is the TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD?

400

This body of water provides water for over 40 million people in seven states and part of Mexico.

What is THE COLORADO RIVER?

500

DAILY DOUBLE: Please turn in a piece of paper with your BID (0, 500, or 1000) and answer in the next 45 seconds!

What is the musician below's PERSPECTIVE on the American Dream?

"It's a big ole country with countless dreams

Happiness ain't out of reach

Hard work pays off the way it should

Yeah, I've seen enough to know that we've got it good

Where the stars and stripes and the eagle fly!

What is a POSITIVE viewpoint of achieving the American Dream?

500

This is the major faction (group) that advocated for what would later become the 18th Amendment

Who are the PROGRESSIVES?

Also accepted: The Temperance Movement?

500

The various "Alphabet Programs" of the New Deal typically aimed to "fix" the country in one of these THREE ways.  (need all three to get correct)

What are RELIEF, RECOVERY, and REFORM?

500

The large influx (growth) of immigration to the USA from 1880 to 1910 came from this part of the world (and/or countres)

(Name part of the world or two countries)

What is Southern/Eastern Europe?

Italy/Poland/Russia/Greece/Hungary?

500

These are the only two AI Platforms that have been cleared for use by Durango 9-R students.

What is SCHOOLAL and GEMINI?