1920's and The Great Depression

Question 1

What impact did the car have on other industries

Answer 1

Increased the number of transportation industries like gas stations, is motels, and restaurants

Question 2

The focus of the Harlem Renaissance

Answer 2

The experience of the blacks in the United States, fighting against discrimination, Segregation, and intolerance

Question 3

Who were the Harlem renaissance musicians and poets

Answer 3

Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, and Langston Hughes

Question 4

Why did the Great Migration occur and what impact did it have on African Americans as they moved North

Answer 4

Many African Americans wanted a better life in the North especially because jobs were available in industries there, they experienced more rights, the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance

Question 5

How are flappers different from the women before the 1920s

Answer 5

The dress differently, they had carefree lifestyle,They went to speakeasy’s and drank and danced, and they had the right to vote

Question 6

What was installment buying and what impact did it have on the economy

Answer 6

When consumers bought goods on credit- hang a small salmon hang the rest off in monthly installments, this allow those at moms then comes by good to be on the reach however people were buying goods money they didn’t have an therefore going into debt

Question 7

What did the 19th amendment do, what year was the passed

Answer 7

Gave women the right to vote and it was ratified in 1920

Question 8

What did 18th amendment do

Answer 8

It prohibited the manufacturing sale and transportation of alcohol

Question 9

What did the 21st amendment do

Answer 9

Canceled the 18th amendment and it made selling making and transporting alcohol once again legal

Question 10

What are some ways that people still obtained alcohol during prohibition

Answer 10

Bootleggers who smuggled alcohol into the country and speakeasies which were illegal bars alcohol

Question 11

How did the use of the assembly line change the automobile industry during the 1920s

Answer 11

Products are made easier cheaper and faster

Question 12

What were too common forms of entertainment for people in the 1920s

Answer 12

Movies and radio

Question 13

Why did consumerism increase during the 1920s

Answer 13

Salaries are on the rise, the demand for products Rose, installment buying became popular, factories were producing more goods than ever before

Question 14

What is the difference between blues and jazz music

Answer 14

Blues has slow tempo sad words and minor harmonies were jazz has free improvising and strong rhythms

Question 15

What were some new appliances and inventions of the 1920s and how are they operated

Answer 15

The telephone of the car the radio in the washing machine in the vacuum and they were operated by electrification

Question 16

What was organized crime and what was its role in the 1920s

Answer 16

It was plans crime involving a group of people and it sometimes involves bootlegging

Question 17

Who is F Scott Fitzgerald

Answer 17

He wrote the great Gatsby about the materialism an empty prosperity of the 1920s

Question 18

Who is John Steinbeck

Answer 18

He wrote the grapes of wrath about the life of migrant workers in the California during the great depression

Question 19

Who is Langston Hughes and what movement was he a part of

Answer 19

He was a poet during the Harlem Renaissance and he wrote about segregation and discrimination face by African-Americans

Question 20

What was black Tuesday

Answer 20

October 29, 1929 was the day that the stock market crashed

Question 21

What political party with Herbert Hoover

Answer 21

Republican

Question 22

What political party was Franklin D Roosevelt

Answer 22

He was a Democrat and in 1932 he won the election

Question 23

What is the federal reserve

Answer 23

Central bank of the United States

Question 24

Why did the farmers basic difficult time before the great depression

Answer 24

They over produced goods and their incomes are low

Question 25

What was the dust bowl and what’s geographic region did it cover

Answer 25

The dust bowl was large dust storms in the great plains

Question 26

What caused the dust bowl

Answer 26

Type of grass on the great plains, miss use of land, and severe drought

Question 27

What are the five main causes of the Great Depression

Answer 27

Use of credit: bind with money you don’t have and hang it back later, collapse of the banking system: network of banks that run out of money, stock speculation: buying stock on credit and selling it at a high price hoping to make a quick large profit, over productions of goods: farms and businesses are making more than what is being bought, high tariffs: imported/export goods are heavily taxed this reduces trade