Keith GDP

Question 1

Prohibition (18th amendment) causes and failures

Answer 1

made to decrease crime that people coupled with alcohol. Made a significant increase in crime (organized crime)

Question 2

19th amendment

Answer 2

granted women the right to vote

Question 3

flappers

Answer 3

rebellious women that went along with women’s suffrage and redefined women normality.

Question 4

speakeasies

Answer 4

illegal bars that served alcohol

Question 5

Charles lindbergh

Answer 5

first man to fly solo across atlantic. flew in the spirit of st louis

Question 6

mass culture

Answer 6

what is popular and how you know it is popular

Question 7

Al jolson and the jazz singer

Answer 7

The first movie that had sound

Question 8

amelia earhart

Answer 8

first women to fly across atlantic solo. Disappeared while trying to fly around the world

Question 9

isolationism

Answer 9

The US decided it did not want to be involved in foreign affairs, so they removed themselves.

Question 10

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 10

Black people from harlem started showing of their creativity and became famous.

Question 11

marcus gavey

Answer 11

led African Americans and said that they should be proud of their heritage and should possibly go back to africa

Question 12

installment buying

Answer 12

people bought stuff on credit and said that they would pay their debt later

Question 13

on-margin buying

Answer 13

people pay certain amount for stock and then have to pay back the rest of the price that they owe

Question 14

overproduction/consumerism

Answer 14

there was a surplus of goods, therefore they came buy very cheap, making businesses very poor, causing part of the great depression

Question 15

causes of GDP

Answer 15

major stock crash and people could not pay off all of their debt, therefore making many jobless

Question 16

bonus army

Answer 16

ww1 veterans wanted their bonus pay when GDP started. Gov would not pay until 1941. made a riot.

Question 17

dust bowl

Answer 17

in the SW there was over production of crops, leaving the land out of nutrients, making the dust bowl

Question 18

hoovervilles

Answer 18

a neighborhood of shacks were people lived during great depression

Question 19

Stock market Crash

Answer 19

many people think economic prosperity would end= sell all their stocks at once= make prices crash= people couldn’t pay of debt for the stocks= start GDP

Question 20

scopes trial

Answer 20

in Tennessee scopes was arrested for teaching the theory of evolution. Started a war between new and old ways

Question 21

Great depression ends

Answer 21

pearl harbor= US enters war= hire people to make war goods

Question 22

TVA

Answer 22

Tennessee valley authority(made by gov) created to make flood prevention and add electricity to Tennessee and other rural areas

Question 23

bank failures

Answer 23

banks fail because they lent out money to stock buyers= when stocks crashed= couldn’t pay people that wanted their money back

Question 24

Social security and its problems

Answer 24

SS take 9% of peoples paycheck. When they reach 62 they will get money back. Doesn’t work bcuz for every 10 people putting money in, it has to pay out 12

Question 25

national debt

Answer 25

The US spends more money than it has, but it also is paying of previous wars, deals, etc