General context Flashcards
US civil war lasted how many years?
4
In what year did the Civil War end?
1865
What change did the US electoral system undergo in 1919?
Women were given the right to vote.
In what year did the US prohibition end?
1933
What is the day the Wall Street crash happened often called?
Black Tuesday
How many US casualties in WW1? (Aprox.)
115,000
How far through WW1 did the US join?
Three quarters of the way through
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The Great Depression
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California
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The Flapper Period
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Automobile industry
Give two other names for the Jazz Age
The Flapper Period, Roaring Twenties
In 1890 there were less than how many cars in the US?
4000
The Valley of Ashes takes inspiration from what novel?
Ulysses
Put these in chronological order: Modernism, Postmodernism, Naturalism, Realism, Romanticism
Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, Postmodernism
Modernism was reactionary to what event?
WW1
In the wake of The First World War, the US government adopted what policy?
Isolationism
Which of these was an American novelist? Elliott Smith, George Eliot, T S Eliot.
T S Eliot
‘Alchohol is…
A basic human right’
- Kit Matthews
Manifest destiny was the idea that…
Americans were destined to expand their dominion and spread ‘democracy’ and capitalism.
The term Manifest Destiny was coined in what year?
1845
To the nearest one hundred thousand, Oklahoma lost how many people during The Great Depression to external migration?
400,000
To the nearest 5%, how much of Oklahoma left Oklahoma in the 1930s?
20%
A severe drought hit Texas in what year?
1932
The photo ‘Migrant Mother’ was taken by who?
Dorothea Lange
To the nearest ten thousand, how many were deported from the US between 1930 and 1932?
50,000
Name the two presidents during The Great Depression?
Herbert Hoover, Franklin D Roosevelt
The Hoover Company was started by US president Herbert Hoover, true or false?
False, it was started by William Henry Hoover
The period of study for our course starts in what year, 1860, 1870, or 1880?
1880
What term was used to describe the description of deprivation in cities in many novels of the period?
Urban realism
