Roaring 20's and Great Depression

Question 1

18th Amendment

Answer 1

Bans the sale, transportation, and manufacturing of alcohol in the US.

Question 2

Prohibition

Answer 2

Era in the US following the ban of alcohol.

Question 3

Great Migration

Answer 3

The movement of African Americans from the south to the north.

Question 4

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 4

A cultural and artistic movement centered around the African American community.

Question 5

19th Amendment

Answer 5

Right to vote for women.

Question 6

Flappers

Answer 6

Fashionable young women who defied “normal” female behavior during the 20’s.

Question 7

Bootleggers

Answer 7

Transported illegal goods.

Question 8

Speakieses

Answer 8

Illegal bars that served alcohol during Prohibition.

Question 9

Palmer Raids

Answer 9

Raids carried out by Mitchell A. Palmer against suspected communists.

Question 10

Demobilization

Answer 10

Process of releasing troops after a war.

Question 11

Washington Naval Conference

Answer 11

A disarmament conference held after WWI - focused on disarming navies.

Question 12

Tin Pan Alley

Answer 12

Neighborhood in NYC that became the central for new music and artists.

Question 13

Red Scare

Answer 13

Fear of communism in the US following WWI.

Question 14

Roaring 20’s

Answer 14

Era in American history full of economic prosperity, social, and cultural change. New trends arose, new music, and new artists.

Question 15

Tea Pot Dome Scandal

Answer 15

Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall gave away land in the west to private corporations to drill for oil. Land was originally meant for the US Navy.

Question 16

Sacco and Vanzetti

Answer 16

Italian immigrants put to death for an alleged murder - controversial court case in the US.

Question 17

Recession

Answer 17

Economic decline.

Question 18

Communism

Answer 18

Economic system with no private ownership, no classes, and the workers own the means of production.

Question 19

Nativism

Answer 19

Favoring native born or established immigrants over new immigrants.

Question 20

Quota System

Answer 20

Policies that limited the number of immigrants coming to America.

Question 21

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Answer 21

Outlawed war as a way to solve political disputes.

Question 22

Dawes Plan (1924

Answer 22

American plan to help Germany repay their war reparations.

Question 23

DOW Jones Industrial Average

Answer 23

Measures the performance of the US stock market.

Question 24

Consumer

Answer 24

Someone that purchases a good/service.

Question 25

Credit

Answer 25

Buy now and pay later.

Question 26

Traditionalists

Answer 26

Preferred the old way of doing things.

Question 27

Modernists

Answer 27

Preferred the new ways of doing things.

Question 28

Volstead Act

Answer 28

Strengthened the 18th Amendment.

Question 29

Scopes Trial

Answer 29

John Scopes was put on trial for teaching evolution in Tennessee.

Question 30

Black Tuesday

Answer 30

Nickname for the day the US stock market collapsed.

Question 31

Great Depression

Answer 31

Era of economic decline following the collapse of the NYSE.

Question 32

Bull Market

Answer 32

When the stock market is doing really well.

Question 33

Bear Market

Answer 33

When the stock market is doing poorly.

Question 34

Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act

Answer 34

Enacted during the Great Depression to raise taxes on imported goods.

Question 35

New Deal

Answer 35

Enacted by FDR to reverse the effects of the Great Depression.

Question 36

Dust Bowl

Answer 36

A series of storms that destroyed the mid-west.