20s, Causes Of GD

Question 1

Popular culture

Answer 1

Culture of ordinary people

Question 2

Mass media

Answer 2

Forms of communication (newspapers and radios) radios started broadcasting political info, news, sports, advertising (order through mail

Question 3

Talkie

Answer 3

Movies with sound, jazz singer was the first

Question 4

19th amendment

Answer 4

Right to vote

Question 5

Great migration

Answer 5

Beginning in WW1, movement of millions of AA from S to N (Midwest) to take jobs in industry

Question 6

Renaissance

Answer 6

Rebirth

Question 7

Harlem renaissance

Answer 7

(1920-1930) AA created great literature and art Harlem NY race was a common theme known as negro movement.

Question 8

3 Harlem renaissance members

Answer 8

1. Langston Hughes
2. Zora Neale Hurston
3. James Weldon Johnson

Question 9

Lost generation

Answer 9

Writers questioning Americans ideals (disappointed in america, settled in Paris)

Question 10

Expatriates

Answer 10

People who choose to live in another country

Question 11

Flappers

Answer 11

Girls who wore short skirts/dresses, bobbed their hair, smoked cigarettes, and drank alcohol

Question 12

Bessie Smith

Answer 12

“Empress of the blues” best blues singer

Question 13

Blues

Answer 13

(Feelings) soulful stable of music that evolved from AA spirituals usually with themes of unfulfilled love, poverty, and oppression

Question 14

Jazz

Answer 14

Mixture of blues and ragtime with syncopated rhythms and improvisational elements, developed in New Orleans

Question 15

Louis Armstrong

Answer 15

Jazz singer

Question 16

Duke Ellington

Answer 16

Pianist and composer (well dressed)

Question 17

Charles Lindbergh

Answer 17

First alone transalitic flight across Spirit of St 33 hours. Son gets kidnapped from home in NJ. 2 months later, body was discovered near home, fracture to the skull.

Question 18

Bruno Hauptmann

Answer 18

Arrested and sentenced to death

Question 19

Top 3 sports

Answer 19

Baseball, football, and boxing

Question 20

Babe Ruth

Answer 20

Outfielder, set record for home runs. Nickname Bambino First Boston Red Sox (pitcher) sold to NY yankees. Known for charity and reckless lifestyle

Question 21

Red grange

Answer 21

Football hero 4 touchdowns in 12 minutes

Question 22

J. Dempsey

Answer 22

Boxer set records

Question 23

Fundamentalism

Answer 23

Thought everything in bible was completely true

Question 24

Prohibition

Answer 24

Ban of alcohol

Question 25

Causes of Great Depression

Answer 25

1. Unbalance economy
2. Credit crisis, buying on margin
3. Banks failed
4. International crisis
5. Poverty
6. The crash

Question 26

Depression

Answer 26

A period when economic activity decreases, and unemployment is high

Question 27

Stock exchange

Answer 27

Organized system of buying and selling shares (stocks) in a company

Question 28

Stock

Answer 28

share of value in a company

Question 29

Broker

Answer 29

Expert who buys stocks for consumers (fora fee)

Question 30

Black Thursday

Answer 30

October 24th, start of fall

Question 31

Black Tuesday

Answer 31

October 29th, bottom fell out

Question 32

Speculation

Answer 32

Buying stocks and bonds hoping for a quick profit