Early American History and Industrialism
WWI fighting and the home front
WWI Geography and Events
Culture of the 20’s Category
20’s Trivia
100
This invention, created in 1794, helped produce cotton more quickly.
What is the cotton gin?
100
The type of warfare that was dangerous because troops are vulnerable in “no-man’s land”
What is trench warfare?
100
The three major Central Powers.
What are Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Ottoman Empire
100
A celebration of African American art, music, and literature in New York City.
What is the Harlem Renissance?
100
The group that blamed immigrants, blacks and several religious groups for the country’s problems.
What is the KKK?
200
The writer of “The Jungle”.
What is Upton Sinclair
200
This weapons was invented to protect troops so they could travel safely to the enemy’s trenches.
What are tanks?
200
The three or Entente powers.
What are Great Britain, France, Russia
200
The name of the two Italian men accused of robbery and murder outside of Boston.
Who are Socco and Vanzetti?
200
The movement of blacks who traveled north in search of better jobs.
What is the great migration?
300
The president who passed the meat inspection act.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
300
This message to Mexico promised them extra land for attacking America.
What is the Zimmerman Note
300
The name of the city the Archduke was assassinated in.
What is Sarajevo?
300
The time period in which political radicals were arrested because of a fear they were a threat to the government.
What is the red scare?
300
This famous Harlem Renaissance poet wrote “the Negro speaks of rivers,” and other well known poems.
Who is Langston Hughes?
400
The president of the South during the Civil War.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
400
The committee on public information created this to motivate support for the war.
What is propaganda?
400
The name of clause placing blame on Germany for starting WWI.
What is clause 231- the war guilt clause?
400
The amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1920, that gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
400
Marcus Garvey encouraged blacks to move to this place during the 1920’s.
What is Africa?
500
The three of the four major pillars of the progressive movement.
What are protecting social welfare, promoting moral improvement, creating economic reform, and fostering efficiency?
500
The name of the Act that gave law enforcement the power to jail or fine a person for interfering with the war effort
What is the Alien and Sedition act?
500
Three of the new nations created by the Treaty of Versailles.
What are Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, and Trans-Jordan?
500
The name of the famous scandal involving members of Warren G. Harding’s administration.
What is the tea pot dome?
500
According to the KKK manual we studied in class, these are considered 3 of the many “offenses and penalties”.
What are violating the oath of allegiance, disrespecting virtuous womanhood, violations of the Constitution, bearing children with a member of another race, and minor offenses: drunkenness, profanity, refusal to obey or respond?