American History 2, bench 3

Question 1

women who wore outlandish dresses and cut their short and sassy were called

Answer 1

flappers

Question 2

List three aspect of African American life during the 1920s.

Answer 2

Black Nationalism of Marcus Garvey
African American movement during the Great Migration
The excitement of Jazz and Soul music of the Harlem Renaissance

Question 3

List three feelings of the 1920s caused in part by the large number of Eastern European immigrants coming to America.

Answer 3

Nativist anti-immigrant and anti-catholic feelings
Anarchist fears
Red Scare of Communism

Question 4

The economic policy of Calvin Coolidge

Answer 4

Laissez-faire Economics

Question 5

Who invents the new affordable car during the 1920s?

Answer 5

Henry Ford

Question 6

The _____ had many causes including a decline in Automobile sales and all items that contributed to its manufacture.

Answer 6

Great Depression

Question 7

Wall Street’s failure is sometimes called the _____

Answer 7

stock market crash

Question 8

Many people needed free food during the Great Depression and obtained it at ____.

Answer 8

soup kitchens

Question 9

Many people left the Midwest and moved to cities and/or California during a period called the ____.

Answer 9

Dust Bowl

Question 10

During the 1920s, to remain a great people the United States embraced _______

Answer 10

Laissez-Faire Economics

Question 11

During the 1930s, the United States pursued a foreign policy called _____.

Answer 11

Isolationism

Question 12

Who pledged never to surrender to Hitler’s aggression?

Answer 12

Winston Churchill

Question 13

List three facts about the Holocaust.

Answer 13

It was called Hitler’s Final Solution to the Jewish question.
SS St. Louis unsuccessfully attempted to rescue many Jewish refugees.
Auschwitz was a Nazi death camp.

Question 14

She was the image of a woman war industry worker.

Answer 14

Rosie

Question 15

Women joined the military in the ___.

Answer 15

Women’s Army Corps

Question 16

He was the image of a male soldier

Answer 16

G.I.

Question 17

This group of African American flyers performed superbly defending Allied Aircraft over Europe during World War II

Answer 17

Tuskegee Airmen

Question 18

The _______ was the effort to produce an atomic weapon by the United States during World War II.

Answer 18

Manhattan Project

Question 19

He led that the Black Nationalism movement in the United States during the 1920s.

Answer 19

Marcus Garvey

Question 20

the ______ was when huge numbers of African Americans left the south in the early early 1900s to obtain industrial war work in the north.

Answer 20

The Great Migration

Question 21

He flew in the Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic Ocean.

Answer 21

Charles Lindbergh

Question 22

The idea of less government is the best government embraces ______.

Answer 22

Laissez-faire Economics

Question 23

During the 1920s, which portion of society experienced a decline in prosperity?

Answer 23

Farmers