Minstrel Shows
What is a Minstrel Show?
A form of performance where people put black face makeup on their faces and act and sing songs spreading racist stereotypes of Black people. This was the most popular form of entertainment during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Which group of people in the United States participated in The Great Migration?
Who were Black communities
What is a strike?
When workers organize and agree to all stop working until their pay or working conditions improve.
What is fascism?
A form of government where one ethnic or racial group is seen as superior, and other ethnic or racial groups are seen as inferior; anti-democratic, authoritarian systems designed to exploit the groups labeled as 'inferior'
What are the four components of an argumentative paragraph, and what is their correct order?
Topic Sentence, Evidence statement, Analysis, and Conclusion
In what decade did Minstrel Shows emerge in The United States?
What are the 1830s
Where did people participating in The Great Migration move from and to?
Black communities moved from Southern states to the north and west coasts.
What is a boycott?
When people organize and agree to stop buying a product to force the company to change their ways
What is a 'just war'
A war that is seen as 'good,' or 'necessary,'
What is a counter-argument?
A valid reason why someone might disagree with your claim
This Minstrel Song was the unofficial anthem of The Confederate States of America (the South) in the Civil War
What were three of the main cities that Black communities participating in the Great Migration traveled to?
San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Cleveland, Pittsburg
What was the Bracero Program?
A US government program that gave Mexican citizens jobs as farm workers in the United States during the 1940s, 50s, and 60s
The United States of America accused Iraq of having 'weapons of mass destruction,' justifying their invasion. Did Iraq have weapons of mass destruction?
No!
What is a Claim?
A sentence that explains what you are arguing for
What was the first movie to ever have recorded sound?
"The Jazz Singer" by Al Jolson
What are two reasons why Black communities left the south during The Great Migration?
Poor working conditions and poverty under sharecropping, racist government and laws, KKK violence
Did the United Farm Workers use strikes, boycotts, or both to achieve their goals of better working conditions in the 1960s?
They used both strikes and boycotts to force grape growers to accept their demands
What was the United State's Justification for the Vietnam War?
Fighting against and stopping the spread of communism in Southeast Asia