Chapter 10- Jazz Age

Question 1

Teapot Dome

Answer 1

Began in early 1922 when Hardings secretary of the interior, Albert B. Fall, secretly allowed private interests to lease lands containing US Navy oil reserves.

Question 2

Investigation

Answer 2

the act or process of investigating or the condition of being investigated.

Question 3

Revelations

Answer 3

something revealed or disclosed, especially a striking disclosure, as of something not before realized.

Question 4

Supply-side economies

Answer 4

Trickle-down economies.

Americans would earn more money, and the government would collect more taxes at a lower rate than it would if it kept tax rates high.

Question 5

Cooperative individualism

Answer 5

a field of economics, socialist economics, co-operative studies, and political economy, which is concerned with co-operatives.

Question 6

Isolationism

Answer 6

A policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, esp. the political affairs of other countries.

Question 7

Charles G. Dawes

Answer 7

An American diplomat that negotiated an agreement with France, Britain, and Germany by which American banks would make loans to Germany that would enable it to make reparation payments

Question 8

Charles Evan Houghs

Answer 8

Proposed a 10-year moratorium, or halt, on the construction of new warships

Question 9

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Answer 9

Pact signed by the US and 14 other nations on August 27, 1928. The pact was hailed as a victory for peace.

Question 10

Mass production

Answer 10

Large scale manufacturing dome with machinery, increased supply and reduced costs.

Question 11

Assembly lines

Answer 11

A series of workers and machines in a factory by which a bunch of identical items are assembled.

Question 12

Model T

Answer 12

Fords assembly lime product, the first automobile. It sold for $850 in 1908

Question 13

Disposable

Answer 13

Something intended to be used once and then thrown away.

Question 14

Charles Lindbergh

Answer 14

Former airmail pilot who made an amazing transatlantic solo flight in 1927, he showed the possibilities of aviation for commercial use.

Question 15

Credit

Answer 15

The ability to obtain goods or services before payment, based on the trust that payment will be made in the future: “unlimited credit”.

Question 16

Welfare capitalism

Answer 16

the combination of a capitalist economic system with a welfare state

Question 17

Open shop

Answer 17

A workplace where employees were not required to join a union

Question 18

Nativism

Answer 18

The belief that ones native land needs to be protected from immigrants.

Question 19

Anarchists

Answer 19

People who oppose all forms of government.

Question 20

Source

Answer 20

A place, person, or thing from which something comes or can be obtained.

Question 21

Emergency quota act

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An act restricting annual admission to the US to only 3% of the total number of people in any ethnic group already living in the nation.

Question 22

National origins act

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Made immigration restriction a permanent policy. The law set quotas at 2% of each national policy.

Question 23

Fundamentalism

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A name derived from a series of Christian religious pamphlets titled “the fundamentals”

Question 24

Evolution

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Said that human beings developed from lower forms of life over the course of millions of years

Question 25

Creationism

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The belief that God created the world as described in the bible

Question 26

Denied

Answer 26

To refuse to admit the truth of

Question 27

Speakeasies

Answer 27

Secret bars that sold alcohol

Question 28

Bohemian

Answer 28

Lifestyle of neighborhoods

Question 29

Diverse

Answer 29

Showing a great deal of variety

Question 30

Carl Sandburg

Answer 30

Used common speech to glorify the Midwest

Question 31

Willa Cather

Answer 31

Wrote about life on the Great Plains

Question 32

Ernest Hemingway

Answer 32

Heroic antihero who was a writer

Question 33

F Scott Fitzgerald

Answer 33

Made the characters in the great gadsby

Question 34

Edith Wharton

Answer 34

Used irony and humor to criticize upper class ignorance and pretensions

Question 35

Mass media

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Radio, movies, newspapers, and magazines aimed at a broad audience

Question 36

Unify

Answer 36

To make or become united

Question 37

Great migration

Answer 37

African Americans moving north

Question 38

Harlem renaissance

Answer 38

Flowering of fir an American arts

Question 39

Claude McKay

Answer 39

First important writer of the Harlem renaissance

Question 40

Langston Hughes

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Profiling, original, and versatile writer

Question 41

Zora Hurston

Answer 41

Another important renaissance writer. Wrote Jonah’s Gourd Vine and Their Eyes Were Watching God

Question 42

Jazz

Answer 42

A style of music influenced by Dixieland blues and ragtime.

Question 43

Cotton club

Answer 43

The most famous nightclub in Harlem

Question 44

Symbolize

Answer 44

To be a symbol of

Question 45

Blues

Answer 45

A soulful style of music that evolved from African American spirituals.

Question 46

Impact

Answer 46

Action of an object coming forcefully into another

Question 47

Ongoing

Answer 47

Continuing and still in progress

Question 48

Marcus Garvey

Answer 48

Captured the imagination of millions of African Americans with his negro nationalism.