Early America
This is the "path" indigenous people traveled on when forced from their homeland by Americans.
What is the Trail of Tears?
At the end of the war, General Lee surrendered at this location in Virginia.
What is Appomattox?
What are Hershey Kisses?
This is the place where a Queen lost her power when wealthy white colonizers arrived.
What is Hawaii?
This is the name of the show that highlights the impact of Black and African culture on American food.
What is High on the Hog?
This was the state wanting to enter the United States that forced an initial compromise between North and South.
What is Missouri?
This state in the South had a majority of its state legislature who were Black men during Reconstruction.
What is South Carolina?
This is the name for an organization of workers made to ensure all workers have rights.
What is a union?
This term describes someone who goes to another country because they are fleeing their home country for safety reasons.
What is a refugee?
This holiday is meant to honor and celebrate the dead, and I put up an altar to honor my family.
What is Dia de los Muertos?
In John Gast's Painting "American Progress", an angel is seen leading Americans west while carrying this kind of book in her right hand.
What is a school book?
The 13th amendment banned slavery in all cases except for this one reason.
What is as a punishment for a crime?
This modern worker right ensures that employees are all paid a starting amount of money set by the government.
What is minimum wage?
This woman gave a testimony over 50 years after the Battle of Little Bighorn to explain what she saw.
Who is Kate Bighead?
This is the type of cookie that I brought to class during the day of the final.
What are sugar cookies?
This man sued for his freedom after his slave owner agreed to free him before his death. The Supreme Court ruled against this man.
Who is Dred Scott?
This modern holiday celebrates the news of the end of slavery being delivered to Galveston, Texas in 1865.
What is Juneteenth?
This is the system of economics and government that the Soviet Union actually had.
What is socialism?
During WWI, these were the people who spoke in "codes" to communicate, a strategy that continued into WWII.
Who are Native Americans?
This is Mr. Neese's middle name.
What is Jacob?
This is the modern American state where most of the tribes from Manifest Destiny were forced to settle in.
What is Oklahoma?
This man became president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This is the 2 word name for housing units that were very compact in cities, with the first word related to exercise.
What are dumbbell tenements?
In the propaganda pieces we looked at, a woman is dressed in clothes for this branch of the military saying "If I were a man, I'd join..."
What is the navy?
This is the name of the woman who is credited as the grandmother of Juneteenth (first and last name required).
Who is Opal Lee?
These are the names of 3 of the tribes we focused on within the first few weeks of class.
Who are the Cherokee, Iroquois, Shawnee, Muskogees, Seminoles, Chickasaw and Choctaw?
This man was the leader of the Union Army, and eventually became President of the United States.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
These were the 3 pieces of technology I asked you to research to determine which was the best.
What are railroads, the telegraph and the sewing machine?
This is what the "M" stands for in EMPIRE.
What is militarism?
This is the number of birds I started the year with.
What is 292 (or 294)?