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What were the name of the African American men who moved West after the Civil War to work on cattle farms
Native Americans
Black Cowboys
The Pesos
None of the above
What were the name of the two cattle trails
Chisholm and Great Western
Chisholm and Westward
Great Path and Jesse's Trail
There was only one trail called the Chisholm
WHich cattle trail was the longest
Chisholm
Great Western
What was the state where the cattle trails started
Kansas
Nebraska
Texas
Alabama
What was the name of the cow town or railhead city where the cattle were taken
Athens
Appling
Abilene
Alberto
Why were the herded to Kansas and shipped east?
To sell the cattle for the same price
too many cattle in Texas and no more room
it was the law
to make greater profits and sell the cattle for more money
I was an African American scientist who taught crop rotation at Tuskegee Institute. I made over 300 inventions using peanuts and sweet potatoes. Who am I
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
George Washington Carver
Wright Brothers
I invented the electric light bulb to improve visibility at night. People could stay up longer and work later because of me. Who am I
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
Wright Brothers
George Washington Carver
I invented the telephone. My wife and mom were both deaf. I taught at a deaf school. Who am I
Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
Wright Brothers
George Washington Carver
We flew the first motorized airplane in Kitty Hawk, NC. The flight lasted 12 seconds who are we
Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
George Washington Carver
Wright Brothers
We flew the first motorized airplane in Kitty Hawk, NC. The flight lasted 12 seconds who are we
Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
George Washington Carver
Wright Brothers
Why did the Black Cowboys move West to work on cattle farms
treated equally and fairly and same pay
treated okay but still made less money
What is the name of the location where the yellow star is?
Montgomery, AL
Pittsburgh, PA
Chicago, IL
Kitty Hawk, NC
What is the name of the location of the yellow star?
Pearl Harbor, HI
Montgomery, AL
Chicago, IL
Kitty Hawk, NC
What is the name of the location with the yellow star?
Kitty Hawk, NC
Montgomery, AL
Pittsburgh, PA
Pearl Harbor, HI
What is the name of the location with the yellow star?
Pearl Harbor, HI
Kitty Hawk, NC
Pittsburgh, PA
Chicago, IL
What is the name of the location with the yellow star?
Kitty Hawk, NC
Pearl Harbor, HI
Chicago, IL
Pittsburgh, PA
What is the name of the location with the yellow star?
Kitty Hawk, NC
Montgomery, AL
Chisholm Trail
Pearl Harbor, HI
Rosa Parks refused to give her seat up to a white man and went to jail. This started the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Civil Rights Movement
Montgomery, AL
Pittsburgh, PA
Kitty Hawk, NC
Chisholm Trail
A trail from Texas to Kansas where cattle were herded to railheads to ship North and East for more money
Montgomery, AL
Pearl Harbor, HI
Chisholm Trail
Pittsburgh, PA
Andrew Carnegie put his Carnegie Steel Co. here because of waterways, population, and transportation
Montgomery, AL
Pittsburgh, PA
Chicago, IL
Pearl Harbor, HI
Wright Brothers flew the first engine powered airplane for 12 seconds on the beach
Montgomery, AL
Chicago, IL
Chisholm Trail
Kitty Hawk, NC
Large city with population, transportation, and waterways to support the factories and the big city
Pittsburgh, PA
Chicago, IL
Kitty Hawk, NC
Pearl Harbor, HI
Japan surprised attacked the naval base and killed about 2,000 people on December 7, 1941. U.S. enters WWII
Chisholm Trail
Montgomery, AL
Pearl Harbor, HI
Kitty Hawk, NC
The Stock Market Crash, bank failures, umemployment, farm failures were all a part of the
Turn of the Century
Great Depression
WWI
Bill of Rights
Long period of drought in the Great Plains. The soil blew away and formed large clouds of dust.
bank failures
The Great Migration
Dust Bowl
Hooverville
Which president believed the government should not be involved in the recovery of the economy.
Woodrow Wilson
William McKinley
Franklin D Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Which president believed the government's duty was to help the citizens in need.
Franklin Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Woodrow Wilson
William McKinley
What was the name of the programs Franklin D Roosevelt used to help the US recover from the Great Depression
The Great Deal
The New Deal
The Old Deal
The Great Migration
During the Dust Bowl the farmers (also known as "Oakies") income decreased which caused them to do what
replant their crops
moved West to look for work in California
moved South for the winter
sold their farms to the Indians
Who was the president during the Great Depression
Herbert Hoover
Franklin Roosevelt
William McKinley
Woodrow Wilson
How did the people eat during the Great Depression
Pie pantries
Soup Kitchens
Adminstration that gave money to senior citizens once they reach 65 years old
SSA Social Security Adminstration
CCC Civiliam Conservation Corps
WPA Works Progress Adminstration
TVA Tennessee Valley Authority
Put young American men to work preserving the nation's natural resources. soil conservation, tree planting, and flood control
SSS Social Security Adminstration
CCC Civilian Conservation Corps
WPA Works Progress Adminstration
TVA Tennessee Valley Authority
This program pur unemployed to work building bridges, public buildings, parks, airports, and paint murals on buildings
CCC Civilain Conservation Corps
SSA Social Security Adminstration
TVA Tennessee Valley Authority
WPA Works Progress Adminstration
Helped transform the Tennessee River to build dams to control floods and generate electricity to homes and farms
CCC Civilian Conservation Corps
WPA Works Progrss Adminstration
SSA Social Security Adminstration
TVA Tennessee Valley Authority
The New Deal helped provide what to pull America out of the Great Depression
feed families, improved environment, energy, and jobs
soup kitchens, dust bowls
What were the effects of the Great Depression
food, new banks, Hoover reelected, lots of jobs
spread depression to other countries, poverty, loss of jobs to millions, New Deal, Roosevelt president
Which president said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Herbert Hoover
Franklin Roosevelt
What were the three R's for the New Deal as it helped people during the Great Depression?
Relief, recovery, reform
relief, revolt, recover
recovery, restock, reassemble
refor, relief, revisit
What year did the Stock Market Crash?
1920
1929
1999
2021
The Great Depression was BEST described as
financial and economic stability and low unemployment
financial and economic stability and high unemployment
financial and economic instability and low unemployment
financial and economic instability and high unemployment
The Great Depression was BEST described as
financial and economic stability and low unemployment
financial and economic stability and high unemployment
financial and economic instability and low unemployment
financial and economic instability and high unemployment
Which event caused the Great Depression to end?
WWI
WWII
Civil War
Vietnam War
The 1920's became known as
Roaring Twenties
Flapper Age
Guilded Age
WWI
What things did women begin to do in the 1920's
walk, shop, cook
sports, work outside home
Men and women drove _____ for the first time
horses
buggies
motorcycles
automobiles
Yong women who cut their hair short and wore knee length skirts were known as
flappers
rappers
soldiers
veterans
The 19th Amendment gave who the right to vote
children
men
women
African Americans
What kind of music became popular in the 1920's
rap
country
r & b
jazz
Singer and trumpeter who made Jazz music popular
Langston Hughes
Babe Ruth
Louis Armstrong
Charles Lindberg
Jazz fit that decade so well it was also know as the
Jazz Age
Renaissance
Guilded Age
WWI
Jazz fit that decade so well it was also know as the
Jazz Age
Renaissance
Guilded Age
WWI
Harlem became a center for African American music, arts, and poetry This was known as
Jazz Age
Roaring Twenties
Harlem Renaissance
Famous poet of the 1920's
Langston Hughes
Babe Ruth
Louis Armstrong
Charles Lindberg
The most popular programs to watch and listen to were
news
elections
sports
cars
The first baseball player to hit 60 homeruns in a season
Charles Lindberg
Babe Ruth
Langston Hughes
Louis Armstrong
In 1927, who became the first person to fly alone or solo across the Atlantic Ocean
Charles Lindberg
Babe Ruth
Louis Armstrong
Langston Hughes
the name of Charles Lindberg's plane
Spirit of the World
Spirit of New York
Spirit of St. Louis
Spirit of Georgia
WWI was known as the
Longest War
Great War
Deadliest War
Saddest War
Who were the Allied Powers
Russia, Great Britian, France, Serbia, United States
Russia, Great Britian, Germany, Serbia, United States
Who were the Central Powers
Germany, Serbia, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire
The land between the ditches was called __________ because of the barbed wire and landmines
crater fields
mine shafts
no man's land
trenches
The soldiers fought from long narrow ditches called
warfare
alliances
barbed wire
trench warfare
Germany bombed the British ship Lusitania. They promised not to do it again, they lied and bombed US ships. This prompted Woodrow Wilson to
declare war on Central Powers
declare war on Allied Powers
What was the name of the British ship that Germany bombed
USS Maine
Lusitania
What new weapons were invented during WWI
missiles, guns, muskets, knifes
machine guns, hand grenades, cannons, posionous gases, tanks, airplanes
machine guns, darts, bb guns, lasers
traps, barbed wire, land mines,
What amendment gave women the right to vote
17
18
19
20
Who started working in factories because of the men being off in the war
men and children
children and women
women and African Americans
African Americans and children
The Allied leaders used the Treaty of Versailles to punish
Serbia
Ottoman Empire
Bulgaria
Germany
Allied Powers went to France to sign a treaty to end the war
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of France
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Wilson
Woodrow Wilson did not want to punish Germany, but he supported the Treaty because it created the
League of Nations
League of Worlds
League of Tommorow
League of Treaties
Germany was blamed for WWI what did they have to give up
money, land
money, economy,
money, factories
land, farms
Who won WWI
Allied Powers
Central Powers
What was the name of the ship that exploded in the Cuban Harbor?
Lusitania
Maine
George
Somme
The American newspapers blamed who for the bombing of the ship
Puerto Rico
Spain
Guam
Hawaii
Who created the group the Rough Riders
McKinley
Roosevelt
Bush
Lincoln
What two oceans did the Panama Canal connect
Southern, Artic
Atlantic, Pacific
Pacific, Indian
Southern, Pacific
The Panama Canal saves _____ and ______
time and food
ships and gas
time and money
fish and men
Roosevelt tried to buy Panama from _____
Cuba
Colombia
Spain
Panama
How long did it take to build the Panama Canal
5 years
6 years
20 years
10 years
What president was assisnated during the Spanish American War
McKinley
Jones
Roosevelt
Lincoln
What amendment abolished poll taxes?
15th
19th
23rd
24th
What amendment gave women the right to vote?
15th
19th
24th
26th
What amendment gave women the right to vote?
15th
19th
24th
26th
What amendment gave all citizens regardless of their race the right to vote?
15th
19th
23rd
24th
How was Angel Island different from Ellis Island?
Main station for European immigrants
Main station for Chinese/Asian immigrants
Located on the EAST coast
People were only there a few hours
The first stop for immigrants from China.
Ellis Island
Angel Island
