Quest

Question 1

Good things the 1920s gave

Answer 1

increased freedom, technology, higher standards of living, music: jazz and blues

Question 2

Bad thing the 1920s gave us

Answer 2

illegallization of liquor/ corruption, organized crime, economic crisis, the revival of the KKK

Question 3

Calvin Coolidge quote

Answer 3

“the chief business of the american people is business”

Question 4

Improved tech in 1920s was because factories adapted

Answer 4

moving assembly line, perfected by Henry Ford

Question 5

Labor saving tech

Answer 5

Vacuum, toaster, refrigerator, washing machine

Question 6

Celebrities

Answer 6

Babe Ruth, Charles Lindbourgh, Rudolph Valentino, Enrico Caruso

Question 7

Cultural center for black americans

Answer 7

Harlem

Question 8

Usa produced 85% of the worlds

Answer 8

cars

Question 9

USa produced 40% of the worlds

Answer 9

manufactured goods

Question 10

Big three automobile dealers

Answer 10

Ford, Chrysler, General Motors

Question 11

Twenties Roar

Answer 11

jazz age
dance age
age of prohibition

Question 12

Red Scare

Answer 12

1917-Communists (Bolsheviks) killed the last Czar, took control of the Russian government and people worried about radical communism spreading to the USA
Palmer Raids: attack on people’s liberties

Question 13

Lucky Lindy

Answer 13

Charles lindbergh
over atlantic ocean

Question 14

All That Jazz

Answer 14

New style of music: Uniquely American, improvised, influences from Europe/Africa
Louis Armstrong; New Orleans
Jazz and Blues, born in the South, spread to Northern cities via “The Great Migration”

Question 15

Monkey Trial

Answer 15

Small Tennessee town, teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution vs. Bible story of creation
Bryan (creationism wins), but he pays Scope’s fine

Question 16

Social Security:

Answer 16

The last new deal that survived created a social insurance program designed to pay retired workers aged 65 or older a continuing income after retirement.

Question 17

New Deal

Answer 17

a group organization put in place by FDR

Question 18

Calvin Coolidge

Answer 18

30th president; Elected in his own right in 1924, Coolidge gained a reputation as a small-government conservative distinguished by a taciturn personality and dry sense of humor, receiving the nickname “Silent Cal”

Question 19

Charles Lindbergh

Answer 19

the first person to fly solo and nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean in his monoplane, the St. Louis

Question 20

“The Great Migration”

Answer 20

Black southerners relocate to northern and midwestern cities

Question 21

Louis Armstrong

Answer 21

jazz icon

Question 22

Charleston

Answer 22

the dance

Question 23

Flapper

Answer 23

a subculture of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts (knee height was considered short during that period), bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.

Question 24

Buying on Margin

Answer 24

getting a loan from your brokerage and using the money from the loan to invest in more securities than you can buy with your available cash.

Question 25

Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act

Answer 25

The act raised US tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods.

Question 26

Bonus Army

Answer 26

gathering of probably 10,000 to 25,000 World War I veterans who demanded bonus payment

Question 27

Depression within the Depression

Answer 27

a spike in unemployment rates during fdr presidency

Question 28

Unemployment Rate during GD and when it peaked

Answer 28

At the height of the Depression in 1933, 24.9%

Question 29

“Hoovervilles”

Answer 29

a shanty town built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s.

Question 30

The U.S. Presidents of the Great Depression

Answer 30

Herbert Hoover and FDR

Question 31

States affected by “Dust Bowl”

Answer 31

Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico

Question 32

The Federal Reserve System (The Fed)

Answer 32

The Federal Reserve System is the central banking system of the United States of America

Question 33

Fed helped cause the market to crash-use the “house-builder” example to illustrate the point

Answer 33

artificial interest rates that made people believe they had more money than they really did.

Question 34

why Prohibition was tried (1920-1933) and why it ultimately failed

Answer 34

- thought prohibition would make the country safer/better - gov wanted more control -improve virtue why it failed -people kept drinking and turning law abiding citizens into criminals - increase in gang crime - you cannot legislate morality

Question 35

when was the boom

Answer 35

1920s

Question 36

when was the bust

Answer 36

1930s

Question 37

who were the presidents in the 20s

Answer 37

-wilson -hoover -harding -coolidge

Question 38

where is charleston

Answer 38

South Carolina

Question 39

Three words that define Interest rate

Answer 39

Cost of Money

Question 40

where was the monkey trial

Answer 40

tennessee

Question 41

Farmers ___________ because of _________ _________ in the mid to late 1920s

Answer 41

struggled, low prices

Question 42

What is buying on margin

Answer 42

borrowing money

Question 43

_____% of americans in 1929 had no _________ at all

Answer 43

80%, no savings

Question 44

The 3 blunders of Adolf Hitler

Answer 44

-Declaring War on the US -Invasion of Russia -Putting to many resources into the extermination of jews

Question 45

Which country had the largest amount of jews killed in the Holocaust?

Answer 45

Poland

Question 46

At which location did Operation Overlord take place? What was the name of the place? (hint d-day, hint- over 2,000 americans killed here)

Answer 46

Omaha Beach

Question 47

Which country saw the most casualties during ww2?

Answer 47

USSR (Soviet Union)

Question 48

What organization was created after WW2 to prevent another war from starting?

Answer 48

The United Nations

Question 49

What battle cost over one million soldiers and put the germans on the defensive on the Russian Front?

Answer 49

Battle of Stalingrad