Jeopardy Industrial Revolution Great Depression WWII Cold War Civil Rights Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy
$100 Question from Industrial Revolution More stores, events, and shopping centers mean that Americans have more of this
$100 Answer from Industrial Revolution What is Leisure Time?
$200 Question from Industrial Revolution Better pay, shorter hours, and safer conditions are the result of these groups
$200 Answer from Industrial Revolution What are unions?
$300 Question from Industrial Revolution This government policy was bad for workers during the Industrial Revolution
$300 Answer from Industrial Revolution What is Laissez-Faire?
$400 Question from Industrial Revolution The growth of factories in cities brought about this change in America
$400 Answer from Industrial Revolution What is Urbanization?
$500 Question from Industrial Revolution The growth of factories in cities resulted in a decrease in what other American industry?
$500 Answer from Industrial Revolution What is farming?
$100 Question from Great Depression This October 1929 event is considered the beginning of the Great Depression
$100 Answer from Great Depression What is the Stock Market crash?
$200 Question from Great Depression This disaster, part natural and part manmade, compounded the tragedy of the Great Depression
$200 Answer from Great Depression What was the Dust Bowl?
$300 Question from Great Depression This U.S. president said that the government should not be involved in helping with the economic hardships of the Great Depression
$300 Answer from Great Depression Who was Herbert Hoover?
$400 Question from Great Depression This U.S. president, elected during the Great Depression, created many government programs to help with economic hardships
$400 Answer from Great Depression Who was Franklin D Roosevelt?
$500 Question from Great Depression The U.S. government created this program during the Great Depression, which is the largest public provider of electricity to this day
$500 Answer from Great Depression What is the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)?
$100 Question from WWII Japanese-American citizens were imprisoned in these places during WWII
$100 Answer from WWII What are internment camps?
$200 Question from WWII This world organization was formed to promote peace and to prevent WWIII
$200 Answer from WWII What is the United Nations (UN)?
$300 Question from WWII This event prompted the U.S. to enter WWII
$300 Answer from WWII What was the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
$400 Question from WWII This action, taken by Germany, is considered to be the beginning of WWII
$400 Answer from WWII What is the invasion of Poland?
$500 Question from WWII This state was formed in 1948 as a result of the Holocaust
$500 Answer from WWII What is Israel?
$100 Question from Cold War The world view, in 1945, is basically a division into these two factions
$100 Answer from Cold War What are communist and non-communist?
$200 Question from Cold War A major U.S. fear of the spread of communism, from one country to the next, was known by this term
$200 Answer from Cold War What is the “Domino Effect?
$300 Question from Cold War An imaginary line dividing communists and non-communists in Europe
$300 Answer from Cold War What is “The Iron Curtain”?
$400 Question from Cold War The Cuban Missile Crises resulted from this Cold War event
$400 Answer from Cold War What was the “Bay of Pigs Invasion”?
$500 Question from Cold War U.S. policy concerning the spread of communism during the Cold War was known by this term
$500 Answer from Cold War What is “Containment Policy”?
$100 Question from Civil Rights This Southern preacher and Civil Rights leader framed the Civil Rights Movement in his famous “I Have a Dream” speech
$100 Answer from Civil Rights Who was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
$200 Question from Civil Rights A literacy test and ancestral voting requirements are examples of these anti-civil rights laws
$200 Answer from Civil Rights What are Jim Crow laws?
$300 Question from Civil Rights Equal rights for African Americans was the goal of this pacifist organization, active during the Civil Rights Movement and founded in 1909
$300 Answer from Civil Rights What is the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)?
$400 Question from Civil Rights This legal case upheld the states’ doctrine of “separate but equal” as acceptable policy for the U.S.
$400 Answer from Civil Rights What is Plessey v. Ferguson?
$500 Question from Civil Rights This organization was formed by Hispanic workers during the Civil Rights Movement
$500 Answer from Civil Rights What is the United Farm Workers Union?
Final Jeopardy The controversial bombing of these two cities pushed Japan to surrender and brought about an end to WWII
Final Jeopardy Answer What are Nagasaki and Hiroshima?