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NC & Civil War
NC Challenges
Famous People
Cause and Effect
Hodge-Podge
100
A confederate state
What was North Carolina during the Civil War?
100
Depression
What is a time when there are few jobs and people have little money?
100
Franklin D. Roosevelt
What is the name of the President of the United States who started the New Deal programs?
100
The Effect: Because of this North Carolina leaders moved the state capital to Raleigh.
The Cause: The coastal town of New Bern was North Carolina's state capital. This was too far to travel for those in the western part of the state. Lawmakers met in Hillsborough to choose a new location.
100
This position changed from being appointed to being elected when NC's constitution was changed in 1835.
What is the governor?
200
Abraham Lincoln
Who was the President during the Civil War?
200
Fontana Dam
What is a project completed by New Deal workers in North Carolina?
200
Martin Luther King Jr.
What is name of the Civil Rights leader who led marches and peaceful protests?
200
The Cause: The national government passed the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870.
The Effect: This gave African American men the right to vote.
200
Someone who wants to end slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
300
This ended slavery everywhere in the United States.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
300
Child Labor
What did the national government pass laws against in 1933?
300
Henry Ford
What is the name of the business leader who opened an automobile factory in Charlotte, NC.?
300
The effect: People could use their own voices to communicate over long distances for the first time.
The cause: The invention of the telephone in 1879.
300
The telephone
What form of technology first allowed North Carolinians to quickly communicate over long distances?
400
States Rights
What is the right for states to decide issues and support slavery called?
400
World War II
What was the war North Carolinians fought in during the 1940s?
400
Samuel F. B. Morse
What is the name of the inventor of the telegraph?
400
The cause: Many men left factory jobs to fight in World War I and World War II.
The effect: Women had to step up and fill those jobs.
400
Manufacturing
Which industry was most changed by the development of the assembly line?
500
Bentonville, NC
What is the location of the largest battle in NC during the Civil War?
500
Civil Rights Act
Which law ended segregation in public places?
500
Gertrude Weil
What is name of the women who helped fight for women's suffrage in North Carolina?
500
The Effect: African American students held "sit-ins" at lunch counters and other public places.
The Cause: Segragation laws prohibited the serving of African Americans at lunch counters and other public places.
500
February 1, 1960
What is the date of the famous "Sit-in" that occurred in Greensboro's Woolworth store on Elm street downtown?