1. Term 2 Pass the Point

2. Pass the Point Instructions
In this challenge, each of you will be competing directly against someone from each of the other teams. The goal is to control “The Goods” at each of the randomly spaced “Checkpoints.” To gain control of The Goods, you must be the first to answer the question I ask correctly. If nobody in your group can answer the question, control of The Goods stays with whoever had it last.

3. What three territories did America acquire from the Span Am war?

4. Guam, Puerto Rico, Phillipines

5. What are the four MAIN causes of WWI?

6. Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism

7. Checkpoint!

8. What term describes staying out of foreign affairs and dealing with your own problems?

9. Isolationism

10. What treaty ended WWI?

11. The Treaty of Versailles

12. What 4 things did Germany have to do after the Treaty of Versailles?

13. Take responsibility for the war, pay reparations, reduce military, give up land

14. What was the name of Wilson’s peace plan?

15. The Fourteen Points

16. Checkpoint!

17. What were people scared of during the Red Scare (be more specific than just “communism”)

18. A communist revolution, like the Bolsheviks

19. What two philosophies were opposed during the Scopes Monkey Trial?

20. Fundamentalism (Creationism) and Modernism

21. What were the three causes of the Great Depression?

22. Banking failures, bad foreign trade decisions, people buying things on credit

23. What was NOT a cause of the Great Depressions?

24. The Stock Market crash! (It’s a symptom)

25. What was the name of the tariff the US made at the start of the Depression?

26. The Smoot-Hawley tariff

27. Using media to forget about your crappy life

28. Escapism

29. A “natural” disaster in the Midwest during the 30s

30. The Dust Bowl

31. Checkpoint!

32. What was natural about the Dust Bowl

33. The drought

34. What was manmade?

35. Overfarming and getting rid of the plains grass

36. A program where workers are taxed to pay for retired people

37. Social Security

38. Trying to fill the Supreme Court with people that agree with you

39. Court Packing

40. What ended the Great Depression?

41. World War Two

42. Would the New Deal have gotten us out of the Depression

43. Don’t know, because WWII

44. Checkpoint!

45. What was the name of the first electric washing machine (and Mr
What was the name of the first electric washing machine (and Mr. Bird’s favorite fact about the 1920s)?

46. The Mighty Thor!

47. Checkpoint!