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What are Labor Unions?
These groups fought for higher wages, shorter working periods, safer environment
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What is The Wobblies?
This was the nickname for the IWW (International Workers of the World).
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What is stock market crash, overproduction, unequal distribution of wealth, and consumer debt.
Give at least two causes that led to the Great Depression.
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What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
This event caused the United States to get involved in WWII.
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What is WWII?
Japanese Americans were sent away from strategic places on the coast during this war.
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What is shipbuilding?
This PNW industry was boosted by needs of the effort in WWI.
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What is the Everett Massacre?
This event started when locals fired on a boat where Wobblies were striking.
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What is unemployment, homelessness, and the start of breadlines.
Name at least two impacts of the Great Depression on Washington.
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What is airplanes (Boeing), shipbuilding, and farming.
Name at least 3 Washington industries/products impacted by WWII.
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What are the Puyallup Fairgrounds?
This is the place, near here, in Washington were Japanese Americans were held before being sent to Idaho or Oklahoma.
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What are immigrants?
One negative impact after the war was an increase in hostility toward this group (hint: think general and just WWI).
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What is the Centralia Massacre?
This event saw Wobblies being attacked by Legionnaires, including one prominent leader being hung from a bridge.
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What is Grand Coulee Dam?
This project that was part of the" New Deal" would create jobs in Eastern Washington and would lead to a structure of the same name.
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What are military bases?
More of these sprang up in WA during WWII.
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What is False?
True or False: Those interred would have their homes and businesses waiting for them when they were released from internment.
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What is alcohol (prohibition)?
The 19th Amendment in 1919 banned the sale of this.
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What are Labor Unions?
The main negative impact of the Centralia and Everett Massacres was increasing distrust and hostility towards this type of group.
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What is hydro-electric power, increase in population, irrigation, and tourism.
Besides just employment, name 2 other benefits for Washington of building the Grand Coulee Dam.
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What are energy and supplies?
These two things had to be conserved during WWII.
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What is Executive Order #9066?
This order from the president stated that the War department could remove people who might be a danger to the war effort
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What is British Empire, Belgium, Japan, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Russian Empire, United States, Serbia, Romania.
Name at least 3 of the allied powers from WWI.
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What is Communism?
People were afraid of unions because of similarities with this ideology associated with the "Red Scare".
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What are Hoovervilles?
Name of the shanty towns that sprang up during the Great Depression, named after the president at the time.
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What are Germany, Italy, and Japan?
Name the 3 axis powers during WWII.
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What is 1/8?
You could have as little as this fraction Japanese ancestry and find yourself relocated.
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