Roaring 1920's & Great Depression

Question 1

Process used in factories where products moved along a conveyor belt enabling mass production of items quicker

Answer 1

Assembly Line

Question 2

Created the Model T car making it affordable for the average person to buy. He introduced an 8 hour workday, increased worker wages and gave workers weekends off.

Answer 2

Henry Ford

Question 3

A consumer would make a small down payment and then pay off the rest in monthly payments

Answer 3

Installment Buying

Question 4

People took out credit to purchase stocks

Answer 4

Buying on Margin

Question 5

Free-Thinking women who cut their hair short, wore short dresses, drove cars and participated in government.

Answer 5

Flappers

Question 6

Programs to meet the needs of the hungry & jobless

Answer 6

Relief

Question 7

Programs to help agriculture & industry

Answer 7

Recovery

Question 8

To change the way the nations economy worked

Answer 8

Reform

Question 9

Helped the elderly & handicapped who couldn’t take care of themselves

Answer 9

Social Security

Question 10

Insured bank deposits so people felt safe putting their money back into the bank

Answer 10

Federal Depositors Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Question 11

Grows out of a fear of the Bolshevik Revolution/Communist Revolution,Fear of communism/socialism

Answer 11

Red Scare

Question 12

Established quotas to limit immigration

Answer 12

Emergency Quota Act 1920

Question 13

Italian immigrants executed for crimes they did not commit→example of Red Scare

Answer 13

Sacco & Vanzetti Case

Question 14

John Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution,Example of:Conflict between traditional views &new opinions,Conflict between science & religion

Answer 14

Scopes “monkey” Trial

Question 15

AKA Prohibition/Volstead Act/Temperance Movement, Makes it illegal to manufacture, transport or sell alcohol,RESULT: lead to an increase in organized crime,Unpopular laws are difficult to enforce,21ST Amendment repeals (gets rid of) the 18th Amendment

Answer 15

18th Amendment

Question 16

Amendment which ended the Prohibition of alcohol in the US, repealing the 18th amendment

Answer 16

21st Amendment

Question 17

Gov’t officials sold gov’t oil to private oil companies, President Harding exposed as having corrupt advisors

Answer 17

Teapot Dome Scandal

Question 18

1920’s cultural movement celebrated African American pride and culture Ex: Jazz, writing

Answer 18

Harlem Renaissance

Question 19

Poor distribution of wealth, overproduction, use of credit, stock market speculation. Buying on margin, under consumption, Stock Market Crash 1929

Answer 19

Causes of Great Depression

Question 20

Drought in the Great Plains,Over-plowing exposed the soil

Answer 20

Dust Bowl

Question 21

Believed in Rugged individualism, Individual action would solve the problems of the Depression

Answer 21

Herbert Hoover

Question 22

Neighborhoods of shacks for the homeless

Answer 22

Hooverville’s

Question 23

WWI veterans demand their bonus’ & are violently removed from Washington

Answer 23

Bonus Army

Question 24

Help unemployed workers ,Immense gov’t involvement in people’s lives,Growth of gov’t involvement in the economy

Answer 24

FDR Position during Depression

Question 25

(Relief, Recovery, Reform),An expansion of the power & size of the fed gov ,Gov’t became more involved in the lieves of citizens,gov’t must concern itself w/the peoples economic well being,Gov’t deficit spending

Answer 25

FDR’s New Deal

Question 26

Attempt by FDR to add 6 more judges to the Supreme Court b/c the court ruled some New Deal programs unconstitutional, Lessons,do not threaten checks&balances/do not threaten separation of power

Answer 26

Court Packing Scheme

Question 27

WWII creates jobs and industrial output

Answer 27

Why did the Great Depression End?

Question 28

One can purchase American goods as long one pays cash and transports goods

Answer 28

Cash Carry Policy