The 1900s and Today
Since when can women vote?
The 19 questions in this topic
- 100Name one war fought by the United States in the 1900s.
- 101Why did the United States enter World War I?
- 102When did all women get the right to vote?
- 103What was the Great Depression?
- 104When did the Great Depression start?
- 105Who was president during the Great Depression and World War II?
- 106Why did the United States enter World War II?
- 107Dwight Eisenhower is famous for many things. Name one.
- 108Who was the United States' main rival during the Cold War?
- 109During the Cold War, what was one main concern of the United States?
- 110Why did the United States enter the Korean War?
- 111Why did the United States enter the Vietnam War?
- 112What did the civil rights movement do?
- 113Martin Luther King, Jr. is famous for many things. Name one.
- 114Why did the United States enter the Persian Gulf War?
- 115What major event happened on September 11, 2001 in the United States?
- 116Name one U.S. military conflict after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
- 117Name one American Indian tribe in the United States.
- 118Name one example of an American innovation.
Transcript
Rafa: Mom, women have always voted. Since Washington, right?
Lupe: When did all women get the right to vote?
Rafa: Since seventeen seventy-six! We saw it last time.
Lupe: Mmm… Seventeen seventy-six?
Rafa: … It wasn't seventeen seventy-six?
Grandpa: Rewind.
Grandpa: Women won the right to vote in nineteen twenty, with the Nineteenth Amendment.
Grandpa: In nineteen twenty-nine the stock market crashed and the Great Depression began. The president was Franklin Roosevelt.
Grandpa: Roosevelt was also president during World War Two. The United States entered because Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.
Grandpa: Then came the Cold War against the Soviet Union, and the main concern was communism.
Grandpa: Martin Luther King Junior fought for civil rights: for equality for everyone.
Grandpa: And on September eleventh, two thousand one, terrorists attacked the United States.
Grandpa: Okay, like at the interview. Who was president during the Great Depression and World War Two?
Rafa: Lincoln! He's in everything.
Grandpa: Rafa! Lincoln was in the eighteen hundreds. Lupe?
Lupe: Franklin Roosevelt.
Grandpa: Good. Another one: Why did the United States enter World War Two?
Lupe: Pearl Harbor.
Rafa: I saw that name in a movie.
Grandpa: Well, now you know it's real history, kiddo.
Lupe: Your turn, mijo: Martin Luther King, Jr. is famous for many things. Name one.
Rafa: Mmm… Fought for civil rights?
Grandpa: That's it, kiddo.
Lupe: My eighth stamp in the passport!
Grandpa: Eight out of twenty, Lupe. You're faster than I was in nineteen ninety-one.
Grandpa: Now, your ear. Listen to the officer, answer out loud… then repeat after me.
Officer: When did all women get the right to vote?
Grandpa: Nineteen twenty. NINE-teen TWEN-tee.
Officer: Who was president during the Great Depression and World War II?
Grandpa: Franklin Roosevelt. FRANK-lin ROH-zuh-velt.
Officer: Why did the United States enter World War II?
Grandpa: Pearl Harbor. PURL HAR-ber.
Officer: Who was the United States' main rival during the Cold War?
Grandpa: Soviet Union. SOH-vee-et YOON-yun.
Officer: Martin Luther King, Jr. is famous for many things. Name one.
Grandpa: Fought for civil rights. FAWT for SIV-ul RITES.
Officer: What major event happened on September 11, 2001 in the United States?
Grandpa: Terrorists attacked the United States. TER-er-ists.
Lupe: Women have voted since nineteen twenty!
Grandpa: And Roosevelt, in the Depression and the war. Say them out loud every day, Lupe.
Rafa: Okay, okay… Lincoln isn't in everything. Got it.