Chapter 11 and 12 vocabulary

Question 1

Calvin Coolidge

Answer 1

13th President. 1923-1929, promoted big business and opposed social aid.

Question 2

Dorthea Lange

Answer 2

Photographed migrant farm workers during the Great Depression inspired governent aide programs and Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath

Question 3

Eleanor Roosevelt

Answer 3

First Lady 1933-1945, tireless worker for social causes, including women’s rights and civil rights for African Americans and other groups.

Question 4

Nicola Sacco

Answer 4

Immigrant and anarchist executed, in a highly controversial case, for a 1920 murder in a Massachusetts factory.

Question 5

Herbert Hoover

Answer 5

31st President, 1929-1933, worked to aid Europeans during World War I; responded ineffectively to 1929 stock market crash and Great Depression.

Question 6

John M. Keynes

Answer 6

British economist who believed that government spending could help a faltering economy, his theories helped shape New Deal Legislation.

Question 7

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Answer 7

32nd President, 1933-1945, fought the Great Depression through his New Deal social programs; battled congress over Supreme Court control; proved a strong leader during WWII.

Question 8

Marcus Garvey

Answer 8

African Americanleader from 1919-1926 who urged African Americans to return to their motherland of Africa, provided early instpiration for “black pride” movements.

Question 9

Jazz Age

Answer 9

Term used to describe the 1920’s

Question 10

assembly line

Answer 10

Manufacturing process in which each worker does one specialized task in the construction of the final product.

Question 11

speculation

Answer 11

Making high-risk investments in hopes of getting a high gain.

Question 12

Dow Jones Industrial Average

Answer 12

Measure of average stock prices of major industries.

Question 13

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 13

African American literary awakening of the 1920’s, centered in Harlem

Question 14

Teapot Dome Scandal

Answer 14

Scandal of the Harding administration involving the granting of oil drilling rights on government land in return for money.

Question 15

Welfare Capitalism

Answer 15

An approach to labor relations in which companies met some of their workers needs without prompting by unions.

Question 16

Gross National Product

Answer 16

Total annual value of goods and services that a country produces.

Question 17

Laissez-faire

Answer 17

A government policy of not interfering in private business.

Question 18

buying on margin

Answer 18

Practice by whick investors purchase a stock for only a fraction of its price, borrowing the rest.

Question 19

Hawley- Smoot Tariff

Answer 19

An especially high import tariff passed by Congress in 1930

Question 20

Red Scare

Answer 20

A period of intese fear of communism and other extreme ideas.

Question 21

Mass Media

Answer 21

Print and broadcast methods of communicating information to large numbers of people

Question 22

Prohibition

Answer 22

A legal ban on the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.

Question 23

Installment Plan

Answer 23

A system that lets customers make partial payments (installments) at set intervals over a period of time.

Question 24

Great Depression

Answer 24

Severe economic decline that lasted from 1929-1939.

Question 25

Great Crash

Answer 25

Collapse of the American Stock Market in 1929.

Question 26

Amelia Earhart

Answer 26

First woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone. She attempted to fly around the world but disappeared somewhere in the Pacific never to be found in 1937.

Question 27

Louis Armstrong

Answer 27

First man to walk on the moon.

Question 28

Babe Ruth

Answer 28

World record baseball player hit 714 home runs.

Question 29

Father Divine

Answer 29

African American minister his Harlem soup kitchens fed the hungry during the Great Derpression.

Question 30

Automobile Industry

Answer 30

Henry Ford made transportation affordable for the average american because the creation of the assembly line made it cheaper to create the model T. This made it easier for people to get around and go to sporting events and other leisure activities.