The '70s
Tennessee in the Wars
Name Dropping
Party Like it's 1897
Civil Rights
100
This group lasted from 1865-1872, and was tasked with clothing, food, water, health care, communication with family members, and jobs for African Americans.
What is Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (the Freedmen's Bureau)?
100
This is the number of state conventions held in 1861 to discuss secession.
What is two?
100
This "Boy Hero of the Confederacy" was killed at the age of 21 for not betraying his friends (Confederate spies).
Who is Sam Davis?
100
President William McKinley officially opened up this six month long celebration with a push of a button.
What is Tennessee's Centennial?
100
This prestigious Nashville university expelled student James Lawson for participating in Civil Rights activities.
What is Vanderbilt University?
200
In 1871, this group of African American singers set out from their Nashville college to raise money to keep the school open.
Who are the Fisk Jubilee Singers?
200
More than 80,000 Tennesseans were drafted into this Great War, some going into the 30th "Old Hickory" division.
What is World War I?
200
This "Grandmother of the Civil Rights Movement" refused to give her train seat up for a white man, and successfully sued the train company for discrimination. She also cofounded the NAACP in 1909.
Who is Ida B. Wells Barnett?
200
The only surviving building from the exposition was the Fine Arts building, better known today as this.
What is the Parthenon?
200
This was the first public school to be desegregated in the South.
What is Clinton High School?
300
This controversial Tennessee figure was a U.S. Representative, the 15th Governor of Tennessee, the Military Governor, 17th Vice President, 17th President, and U.S. Senator, in that order.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
300
During this 20th century war, Tennessee hosted 11 prisoner of war camps, including Crossville, Memphis, Tullahoma, and Clarksville.
What is World War II?
300
After receiving a letter, this 22 year old McMinn county native voted to "help Mrs. Catt put the “rat” in ratification", as his mother asked him to.
Who is (Rep.) Harry Burn?
300
Memphis' contribution was a replica of this representation of their namesake.
What is a pyramid?
300
This prominent Civil Rights leader got Mayor Ben West to admit that Nashville lunch counters should be desegregated.
Who is Diane Nash?
400
In 1870 and 1871, the federal government passed the Force Acts to protect the rights of African Americans from this group.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
400
As the U.S. Secretary of State, this man was responsible with foreign relations with Japan and knew of the attack on Pearl Harbor before the Japanese delegates did (they met that day).
Who is Cordell Hull?
400
This Chattanooga "Empress of the Blues" got her first #1 hit in 1923 with "Downhearted Blues".
Who is Bessie Smith?
400
The exposition was the first time many Tennesseans were able to see this, known as the "Electric Scenic Theater", or "Edison's Mirage".
What is a motion picture?
400
What is the Highlander Folk School?
500
This document stood in its original form from 1870-1953, which might be the longest period that any such document had remained in effect without amendment anywhere in the world.
What is the 1870 State Constitution?
500
Of the three Grand Divisions, this division was most in favor of seceding from the Union in 1861, at 84.27%.
What is Middle Tennessee?
500
He is the first African American legislator in Tennessee, coming into office in 1873.
Who is Sampson Keeble?
500
This prominent African American leader gave the opening speech for several themed days, including Fisk University Day, Negro Employees Day, and American Medical Association of Colored Physicians Day.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
500
This Nashville lawyer represented the students arrested for the Nashville sit-ins; as a result, his home was bombed in April 1960 (the blast also blew out over 100 windows at Meharry Medical College).
Who is Z. Alexander Looby?