This area had industrialized, creating factories and had a tremendous shipping and fishing industry.
What is the North?
100
This person traveled the country giving speeches that called for freedom. He was an advisor to President Lincoln.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
100
Climate conditions were difficult, there was no revenue, there was a lack of building materials, and communities were isolated.
What are hardships of the Great Plains Settlers?
100
Business thrives, low unemployment, new businesses are opening, people are spending money, workers are getting paid.
What is an economic boom?
100
Crops died, dust was on food, areas effected: Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, lots of droughts, farmers were in debt because they couldn't plant crops.
What is The Dust Bowl?
200
This area relied on plantation crops and needed large numbers of slaves to farm the land.
What is the South?
200
This person is known as the "Angel of the Battlefield". She was a nurse during the Civil War and started the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
200
Better wages, better hours, insurance benefits, better working conditions, labor unions were formed.
What are workers' rights in the 1800s?
200
Less income, high unemployment, business closures, factories producing less goods
What is an economic bust?
200
October 29, 1929 is known as this because it was the worst day in stock history. More than 16 million shares of stock were traded.
What is Black Tuesday?
300
This person was the leader of the Union army.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
300
This person was the Chief Justice in the Dred Scott decision, ruling that slaves were property.
Who is Roger B. Taney?
300
President of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and he believed in more wages, shorter hours, and greater freedom were the aims of labor.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
300
This is a way for people to "buy now, pay later."
What is credit?
300
Started from the stock market crash, nobody had any money, unemployment went up tremendously, an economic bust, people lived in Hoovervilles.
What is The Great Depression?
400
This person lead the confederate army during the Civil War.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
400
He was the president during the Civil War, abolished slavery, and wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
400
This lady started the Hull House and was a leader in the woman's suffrage movement.
Who is Jane Addams?
400
An arrangement made with a store owner to pay a little at a time.
What is installment plan?
400
People stood in long lines for free soup and bread, empty pockets pulled out called "hooverflags", multiple families crowded together, these houses were made out of cardboard and wood.
What are Hoovervilles?
500
This person was the president of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
500
He was the president of the Confederate State of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
500
She was a leader in the woman's suffrage movement from TN and helped women gain the right to vote.
Who is Anne Dallas Dudley?
500
houses, cars, radios, washers, and vacuum cleaners were bought this way
What is on credit?
500
People named towns "Hoovervilles" because of this.