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America's Time Line Review 1492 - 1899. These two brothers were first to fly in 1903. Who were the Wright Brothers?. This war began in 1914. America joined the action in 1917. This war ended in 1918. What was World War I?. Daily Double.
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America's Time Line Review 1492 - 1899
This war began in 1914. America joined the action in 1917. This war ended in 1918.
Daily Double In 1907 this man made cars easier to afford for the average American with the Model T.
This revolution which mass produced and modernized America continued through the early 1900s. It filled the air with pollution and overworked the factory worker, which included school aged children.
They came from Europe and millions continued to arrive in the early 1900s, going back to the final 20 years of the 1800s
Charlie Chaplin’s tramp was the most famous character from this quiet form of entertainment. It became very popular in the 1920s
When it crashed in 1929, it put America into the Great Depression
Important American President who led the country through the Great Depression Daily Double
It began with the collapse or crash of the Stock Market in 1929.
During World War II women working in the factories at home were known as this
True/False Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the cities devastated by atom bomb in 1945, to end World War II.
What is true? unfortunately
Daily Double In 1947, he played baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break baseball’s color barrier
Answer 3 – 30 Who wasJackie Robinson?
Question 3 - 40 It began in the late ‘40s and was the name of a non-physical war between Russia and America, or the communists against the free world.
Answer 3 – 40 What was the Cold War
This audio-video technology changed the American family beginning in the late 40s – early 50s.
Answer 3 – 50 What was television?
Question 4 - 10 The name given to arrival of the suburbs in the early 1950s.
Answer 4 – 10 What was • Levittown?
Answer 4 – 30 True/FalseThe Mercury 7 was the name of America’s first astronauts as America and Russia began the space race in the late 50s/early 60s
Answer 4 – 30 What is True?
This movement began a little at a time, but gained momentum in the early 1950s.
What was the Civil Rights Movement?
Daily Double True/False:The Vietnam War tore apart America in the 1960s
Answer 4 – 30 What is true? Disagreement over the police conflict in Southeast Asia (Vietnam) caused a great unrest in the cities and college campuses throughout America
Question 4 - 50 President Kennedy began it and President Johnson signed it into law
Answer 4 – 50 What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Question 5 - 10 American President who resigned from office in 1974, only 10 months after Spiro Agnew, his vice-president did the same.
Who was Richard Nixon? Answer 5 – 10
Question 5 - 20 It was built in the early 1960s; came down in 1989. It was the symbol of the Cold War.
Answer 5 – 20 What was the Berlin Wall?
Question 5 - 30 True/false:The early 1980s saw the personal computer (PCs) enter the family home
Answer 5 – 30 What is true? Macs, IBM, Apple and Tandy were just a few to lead the way
Question 5 - 40 Daily Double Communication nickname given to the 20th Century
Answer 5 – 40 What was the Information Age? Radio computer Television Camera Video Camera Phones DVD CD Magazines newspaper books audio equipment posters clothing