History

Question 1

consumer goods

Answer 1

products and services that people use at

home

Question 2

Flappers

Answer 2

women who tried to make a break from
a culturally more conservative past by

dressing provocatively, drinking, smok-
ing, dancing; more common in major

cities;

Question 3

credit

Answer 3

An arrangement to receive cash, goods,
or services now and pay for them in the
future.

Question 4

Great migration

Answer 4

movement of over 300,000 African

American from the rural south into North-
ern cities between 1914 and 1920

Question 5

Harlem renaissance

Answer 5

A period in the 1920s when
African-American achievements in art
and music and literature flourished

Question 6

Jazz age

Answer 6

Name for the 1920s, because of the pop-
ularity of jazz-a new type of American

music that combined African rhythms,
blues, and ragtime

Question 7

Prohibition

Answer 7

the period from 1920 to 1933 when the

sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibit-
ed in the United States by a constitution-
al amendment

Question 8

Pop culture

Answer 8

-boxing (Jack Dempsey) and baseball
(BABE Ruth)
- first talking picture– “The Jazz Singer.”
-mass media over the radio

Question 9

Sacco and Vanzetti

Answer 9

Italian radicals who became symbols of
the Red Scare of the 1920s; arrested
(1920), tried and executed (1927) for a
robbery/murder, they were believed by

many to have been innocent but convict-
ed because of their immigrant status and

radical political beliefs.

Question 10

Red scare

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During brief period of mass anti-communist paranoia in U.,S, several legislatures passed anti-red statutes that often violated the right to free speech.

Question 11

KKK

Answer 11

nativism of the 1920s caused the largest
Klan membership ever (~ 6,000,000);
anti-immigration, anti-African American,
anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish, anti-women,
and anti-union ideas

Question 12

Immigration policy

Answer 12

The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the
number of immigrants allowed entry into

the United States through a national ori-
gins quota.

Question 13

Scopes trial

Answer 13

“Monkey Trial” over John Scopes’s

teaching of evolution in his biology class-
room in violation of a Tennessee law;

it pitted the Bible, fundamentalism, and

William Jennings Bryan against evolu-
tion, modernism, and Clarence Darrow.

Scopes was convicted, but fundamental-
ism was damaged and discouraged by

the trial.

Question 14

Stock Market crash

Answer 14

Another leading component to the start

of the Great Depression. The stock be-
came very popular in the 1920’s, then in

1929 in took a steep downturn and many
lost their money and hope they had put
in to the stock.

Question 15

Depression

Answer 15

A long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices

and low levels of trade and investment

Question 16

Herbert Hoover

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Republican candidate who assumed the
presidency in March 1929 promising

the American people prosperity and at-
tempted to first deal with the Depression

by trying to restore public faith in the
community.

Question 17

Hoovervilles

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Little towns consisting of makeshift shacks made out of scrap material

Question 18

FDR

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32nd US president - began New Deal programs to help the nation out of depression, and he was the nations leader during most of WW2

Question 19

New deal

Answer 19

A series of reforms enacted by the

Franklin Roosevelt administration be-
tween 1933 and 1942 with the goal of

ending the Great Depression.

Question 20

Fist Hundred Days

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FDR pushes through 15 new laws and

ends banking crisis

Question 21

Federal EMergency Relief act

Answer 21

Provided $3 billion to states to provide
money for jobs through work projects

Question 22

civilian conservation corps

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New Deal program that hired unemployed men to work on natural conservation projects

Question 23

works progress administration

Answer 23

Government agency established to man-
age several federal job programs creat-
ed under the New Deal; it became the

largest employer in the nation.

Question 24

social security act of 1935

Answer 24

It provided an old-age pension (retire-
ment), a program of unemployment in-
surance (temporary aid to help people

who lose jobs find a new job), and a
federal welfare program (aid for the very
poor). A most famous and vital legacy
of the New Deal. Has resulted (along
with Medicare) in a drastic reduction in
poverty among the elderly in the US

Question 25

National recovery administration

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New Deal agency that promoted eco-
nomic recovery by regulating production,

prices, and wages

Question 26

Tennesee valley authority

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Federal project to provide inexpensive

electric power, flood control, and recre-
ational opportunities to the Tennessee

River valley

Question 27

Agricultural adjustment act

Answer 27

Gave farmers money to reduce crop size
to reduce production and bring up the
value of crops

Question 28

Soil conservation service

Answer 28

Conducted research into controlling

wind and water erosion, set up demon-
stration project and technical assistance

to farmers. Now called the Natural Re-
sources Conservation Service.

Question 29

Federal deposit insurance corporation

Answer 29

insures bank deposits up to a certain
amount ($5,000 when first created)

Question 30

Security and exchange commision

Answer 30

New Deal agency established to provide
a public watchdog against deception and
fraud in stock trading

Question 31

The New Deal and the poor and unem-
ployed

Answer 31

New Deal programs gave jobs to people
and in turn the nation had better roads,
bridges, dams and schools. The New
Deal set up a saftey net for the poor. Poor
people could get assisstance from the
government.

Question 32

New deals impact on workers and businesses

Answer 32

The New Deal allowed workers to join
unions and to bargain for better wages
and working condtions.

Question 33

New deals impact on rural america

Answer 33

It paid farmers to grow less crops, but
that led to high unemployment of farm
workers and sharecroppers were kicked

of the land. The New Deal provided elec-
trity to many rural areas of the U.S.

Question 34

New deal impact on goverment

Answer 34

Increased the size of the federal govern-
ment. The number of government work-
ers will triple from 1931 to 1941.

Question 35

Al Capone

Answer 35

A mob king in Chicago who controlled a

large network of speakeasies with enor-
mous profits. His illegal activities convey

the failure of prohibition in the twenties
and the problems with gangs.

Question 36

18 amendment

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Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and
distribution of alcoholic beverages

Question 37

19 amendment

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women right to vote

Question 38

3 Rs of New Deal

Answer 38

Relief for those suffering.
Recovery for the economy to get it back
on track.
Reform to ensure a depression like this
never happens again.