The Wild Wild West
This was the rapid mode of transportation that made large scale westward development possible.
What is the railroad?
This type of company, also a popular board game, is created when one company controls an entire industry.
What is a monopoly?
This island nation was annexed by the US due to its fertile soil and ability to produce sugar.
What is Hawaii?
Despite its reputation as a decade of wild partying, this substance was banned during the 1920s.
What is alcohol?
This is the school year when the new Seneca building will open.
What is 2020-2021?
The discovery of this mineral caused massive migration to the west, as people hoped to strike it rich.
What is gold?
When workers join together and form an organization to fight for better pay and conditions, it's called...
What is a Union?
The US gained this territory in the Spanish American War and keeps it as a territory today.
What is Puerto Rico?
These young women enjoyed the new freedom of the 1920s, including dancing, drinking, and smoking.
Who are flappers?
This is the current population of Seneca, rounded to the nearest 100.
What is 1200?
This Native American dance "spooked" the US Army so much that they attacked and killed the dancers at Wounded Knee Creek.
What is the Ghost Dance?
This factory was notorious for its terrible safety standards, which lead to a tragic fire killing hundreds of employees.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?
The US believed narrow Latin American country was the perfect place to build a canal, despite its mountains.
What is Panama?
What is the Great Depression?
These are the names of the two middle schools that currently feed into Seneca.
What are Clemente and MLK?
In the 1880s, the US tried to ban immigration from this country.
What is China?
This new invention allowed people to send messages instantly over long distances, without speaking.
What is the telegraph?
The US promised to help this nation get its independence from Spain, but went back on its promise and kept the territory until World War Two.
What are the Philippines?
This set of programs was created by FDR to try to address the economic problems of the country.
What is the New Deal?
This is the name of the new middle school which will start to send students to Seneca next year.
What is Neelsville?
This was the name adopted by the groups of African American migrants leaving the US south to seek a better life in Kansas.
What are Exodusters?
The vast majority of immigrants working in US factories in the early 1900s came from this continent.
What is Europe?
The US finally entered World War One after Germany tried to make a secret pact with this western nation.
What is Mexico?
This first lady of the 1930s was well known for her support of Civil Rights.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
This is the approximate population size of the new Seneca Valley once it is at full capacity, rounded to the nearest 100.
What is 2600?