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General context Flashcards

1
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US civil war lasted how many years?

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4

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2
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In what year did the Civil War end?

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1865

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3
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What change did the US electoral system undergo in 1919?

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Women were given the right to vote.

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4
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In what year did the US prohibition end?

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1933

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5
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What is the day the Wall Street crash happened often called?

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Black Tuesday

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How many US casualties in WW1? (Aprox.)

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115,000

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7
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How far through WW1 did the US join?

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Three quarters of the way through

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8
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Anagram: deportees nearsight

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The Great Depression

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9
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Anagram: flora iniac

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California

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10
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Anagram: dip leafhopper rte

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The Flapper Period

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11
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Anagram: ambitious node truly

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Automobile industry

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12
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Give two other names for the Jazz Age

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The Flapper Period, Roaring Twenties

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13
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In 1890 there were less than how many cars in the US?

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4000

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14
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The Valley of Ashes takes inspiration from what novel?

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Ulysses

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Put these in chronological order: Modernism, Postmodernism, Naturalism, Realism, Romanticism

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Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, Postmodernism

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16
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Modernism was reactionary to what event?

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WW1

17
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In the wake of The First World War, the US government adopted what policy?

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Isolationism

18
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Which of these was an American novelist? Elliott Smith, George Eliot, T S Eliot.

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T S Eliot

19
Q

‘Alchohol is…

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A basic human right’

- Kit Matthews

20
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Manifest destiny was the idea that…

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Americans were destined to expand their dominion and spread ‘democracy’ and capitalism.

21
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The term Manifest Destiny was coined in what year?

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1845

22
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To the nearest one hundred thousand, Oklahoma lost how many people during The Great Depression to external migration?

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400,000

23
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To the nearest 5%, how much of Oklahoma left Oklahoma in the 1930s?

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20%

24
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A severe drought hit Texas in what year?

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1932

25
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The photo ‘Migrant Mother’ was taken by who?

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Dorothea Lange

26
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To the nearest ten thousand, how many were deported from the US between 1930 and 1932?

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50,000

27
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Name the two presidents during The Great Depression?

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Herbert Hoover, Franklin D Roosevelt

28
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The Hoover Company was started by US president Herbert Hoover, true or false?

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False, it was started by William Henry Hoover

29
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The period of study for our course starts in what year, 1860, 1870, or 1880?

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1880

30
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What term was used to describe the description of deprivation in cities in many novels of the period?

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Urban realism

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