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Question 1

considered the first generation of independent American women; they pushed barriers in economic, political, and sexual freedom for women

Answer 1

Flappers

Question 2

These laws concerned racial segregation in public facilities in the states if the former confederate states in American. began in the 1870s and ended in 1965

Answer 2

Jim crow laws

Question 3

The prohibition era essentially began after the end of world war I with the ratficiation of the 18th amendment. What did it want to do?

Answer 3

Prohibition aimed to reduce crime and corruption and associated costs like prisons and workhouses, solve social issues, and improve American health and hygiene.

Question 4

Which leader was an african american educator, author, and advisor to the presidents between 1890 and 1915, and the dominant leader in the African-American community?

Answer 4

Booker T Washington

Question 6

In the 1920s people associated with this belief reacted fearfully to the rapid social changes of modern urban society by vigorously defending and prioritizing white, Protestant values and rejecting cultural diversity and equality.

Answer 6

Nativism

Question 7

These establishments were places where, duang the Pronibition, alconore beverages were flegally soid and consumed in secret. In addition 10 drinking, patrens would ont, socialize, and dance to jazz music.

Answer 7

Speakeasys

Question 8

When someone did not have the money to pay the full price of stocks, they could put down some of their own money, but the rest would be borrowed from a broker. This is known as:

Answer 8

buying on margin

Question 9

This civil rights leader was an American sociologist, historian, author, editor, and activist who was the most important Black protest leader in the US during the first half of the 20th century

Answer 9

W.E.B. Dubois

Question 10

This civil rights leader was an American sociologist, historian, author, editor, and activist who was the most important Black protest leader in the US during the first half of the 20th century

Answer 10

W.E.B. Dubois

Question 11

This civil rights leader was known as the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) which aimed to achieve Black nationalism through the celebration of African history and culture.

Answer 11

Marcus Garvey

Question 12

What was the Scopes Trial about? *

Answer 12

The teaching of evolution in public schools and universities

Question 13

During the Great Depression many lost their homes because they could not make the loan payments. The legal process by which banks and other lenders took back property from borrowers who couldn’t repay their loans is called

Answer 13

Foreclosure

Question 14

Meaning, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the
town

Answer 14

rural

Question 15

A system of farming that emerged after the Civil War in which freed Black people and poor whites rented land from white landowners in exchange for a portion of their crops

Answer 15

Sharecropping

Question 16

The rate at which a person, company, or country does useful work is called

Answer 16

productivity

Question 17

The rate of increase in prices over a given period of time or the increase in the cost of living in a country is known as

Answer 17

inflation

Question 18

This trade barrier works when one country imposes taxes on goods
imported from another country

Answer 18

Tariff

Question 19

The result of a period of drought that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the Great Depression

Answer 19

The dust bowl

Question 20

The result of a period of drought that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the Great Depression

Answer 20

Dust bowl

Question 21

The advocacy of or support for unity and political self-determination for Black people, by supporting a separate Black nation is known as

Answer 21

Black nationalism

Question 22

A sustained period of weak or negative growth in real GDP (output) that is accompanied by a significant rise in the unemployment rate. Can last months but is considered short term.

Answer 22

recession

Question 23

sustained period of weak or negative growth in real GDP (output) that is *2/2 accompanied by a significant rise in the unemployment rate. Can last years and is considered long term

Answer 23

depression

Question 24

What did the 19th Amendment do?

Answer 24

Gave women the right to vote

Question 25

A person who moves to another country of area in order to find employment, in particular seasonal or temporary work; this was common during the Great Depression

Answer 25

Migrant worker

Question 26

Meaning, belonging to, or relating to, a city *

Answer 26

Urban

Question 27

A form of a religion, especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture

Answer 27

Fundamentalism

Question 28

The Great Depression created economic conditions in which many
families iost their homes. Hundreds of temporary housing encampments called Hoovervilles were built by those families as a way to have shelter Why were they called Hoovervilles?

Answer 28

They were named after President Herbert Hoover who was widely Blamed for not doing enough during the great depression

Question 29

Someone who illegally manufactured, transported, distributed, or sold alcohol during the Prohibition era

Answer 29

bootlegger

Question 30

During the 1920s this methot of paying over a period of time allowed people to purchase larger household items

Answer 30

buying on installment

Question 31

He was elected US President in 1932, after the Great Depression had
already begun

Answer 31

franklin d roosevelt