1920s
A push factor and a pull factor of the Great Migration
What are...
Push: racial violence, lack of economic opportunity, lack of voting rights, poor education, etc.
Pull: jobs in cities, access to education, vibrant city culture, etc.
This weather event led to migration west.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This campaign reflects how the Civil Rights Movement blossomed from World War II and parallels between fighting against fascism abroad and racism at home.
What is the Double-V Campaign?
This word reflects the policy of the U.S. towards communism.
What is containment?
This is one practice that was outlawed by the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
What are literacy tests, poll taxes, and the grandfather clause?
These women were symbols of female and cultural liberation in the 1920s.
What are flappers?
These were the three goals of Roosevelt's New Deal.
What are relief, recovery, and reform?
Allied troops landed at Normandy on this day (Bonus 100: date?).
What is D-Day (June 6, 1944)?
This senator stirred up anti-communist fear and sentiment in the U.S. government, sparking a witchhunt.
Who is Joe McCarthy?
Brown vs Board overturned this Supreme Court ruling.
What is Plessy vs Ferguson (1896)?
This act established immigration quotas.
What is the Johnson-Reed Act?
This Second New Deal program established public works and arts projects across the country.
What is the Works Progress Administration?
This statement began the internment of Japanese Americans on the West Coast. It was issued by this person.
What is Executive Order 9066? Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
Name the four groups of people (nations) who fought in the Korean War.
Communist N. Korea, US/UN troops, S. Korea, China
MLK and John Lewis' march for voting rights marched from here to here.
What is from Selma to Montgomery?
The stock market crashed on "Black Tuesday," or this day.
What is October 29, 1929?
This New Deal program sought to bring business, labor, and the government together by establishing a set of fair business practices.
What is the National Recovery Administration?
This act loaned weapons to Allies with the agreement that they'd pay the U.S. back.
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
This represents a way in which the U.S. used economic resources in Western Europe to stop the spread of communism following World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The Freedom Rides sought to challenge this.
What are segregation laws on public transportation?