The Great Depression
Citation
Potpourri
Lives of Black Americans
Databases & Reliable Sources
100

This event started the Great Depression

What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?

100

A reference to a source.

What is a citation?

100

This cool cat with new shoes steps in mud and doesn't cry about it.

Who is Pete the Cat?

100

This barbaric practice common in the South included the physical torture and hanging of mostly black men.

What is lynching?

100

This online resource requires a username and password, but you always get reliable sources.

What is a database?

200

This negative term refers to a person originally from Oklahoma (or other nearby region) that moved to California to work on farms.

What is an okie?

200

A short citation following a sentence or paragraph.

What is an in-text or parenthetical citation?

200

This kid didn't realize he was half God, until his Mom sent him to camp.

Who is Percy Jackson?

200

Another word for separation of people by color.

What is segregation?

200
Checking the author and date of an article on the Internet is one way to determine this.

What is reliability or trustworthiness of a website?

300

This region of the Midwest was characterized by loss of crops and erosion of top soil.

What is the Dust Bowl?

300

A collection of full citations are gathered here.

What is a works cited page?

300

Sparkly Vampires

What is Twilight?

300

A series of unjust laws in the South that legalized the separation of white people and black people.

What is Jim Crow Laws?

300

These two are the most reliable website domains.

What is .edu and .gov?

400

The rough percentage of men out of work during the depression.

What is 25%?

400

In MLA citations, this part of the citation always comes first.

What is the author?

400

A book about exiled boys and a gauntlet they must run to find their way out.

What is the Maze Runner?

400

This prominent Civil Rights leader was shot in his hotel room in April 1968?

Who is Martin Luther King?

400

This is another word for reliable.

What is trustworthy, quality, or vetted?

500

This book, written by John Steinbeck, follows the Joad family as they migrate to California.

What is The Grapes of Wrath?

500

In MLA citation, this part of the citation always goes last?

What is the published location?

500

The best librarian in our school district.

Who is Ms. Olson?

500

She refused to give her seat to a white man.

Who is Rosa Parks?

500

This database on the Mark Morris website used to be an encyclopedia that you could buy in print form.

What is Worldbook?