roaring 20s

Question 1

mass production

Answer 1

production of goods in large numbers

Question 2

model T

Answer 2

henry ford,
mass production,
car,
came in black

Question 3

assembly line

Answer 3

arrangement of equipment and workers in which work passes from operation to operation in direct line until the product is assembled

Question 4

consumer revolution

Answer 4

flood of new, affordable goods in the decades after WW1

Question 5

installment buying

Answer 5

method of purchase in which buyer makes a small down payment and then pays off the rest of the debt in regular monthly payments

Question 6

bull market

Answer 6

period of rising stock prices

Question 7

bear market

Answer 7

period of falling stock prices

Question 8

buying on margin

Answer 8

system of buying stocks in which a buyer pays a small percentage of the purchase price while the broker advances the rest

Question 9

inflation

Answer 9

rise or prices

Question 10

creditor nation

Answer 10

country in which is owed more money by other countries then it owes counties

Question 11

teapot dome scandal

Answer 11

albert fall rented out oil fields and and sold oil then took in all the money

ended with 1 year in jail

Question 12

washington naval disbarment conference

Answer 12

smaller navies
might not give reason to have wars breakout

Question 13

kellogg-briand pact

Answer 13

making war illegal

Question 14

reparations

Answer 14

payments needed after war

Question 15

dawes plan

Answer 15

us private banks > loans to germany

germany uses money to pay reperations

money then used to pay back loans

Question 16

modernism

Answer 16

artistic and literacy movement sparked by a break with past conventions

Question 17

fundamentalism

Answer 17

movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles

Question 18

scopes trial

Answer 18

1925 trial of a tennesse school teacher for teaching darwin’s theory of evolution
monkey trial

Question 19

quota system

Answer 19

arrangement that limited the number of immigrants who could enter the u.s. from specific countries

Question 20

warren g harding

Answer 20

president
had the poker cabinet
many scandals
reduced spending

Question 21

calvin coolidge

Answer 21

president
silent cal
cut taxes
fired most of the cabinet
unemployment went down
average income went up

Question 22

andrew mellon

Answer 22

sec of treasury

Question 23

herbert hoover

Answer 23

president
easy time winning
continued with previous president plans

Question 24

henry ford

Answer 24

mass production
model T
scientific management
assembly line

Question 25

albert fall

Answer 25

t cup scandal

Question 26

john scopes

Answer 26

taught evolution ended up guilty

Question 27

clarence darrow

Answer 27

lawyer of the defendant

Question 28

william jennings bryan

Answer 28

lawyer for prosecution

Question 29

sacco and vanzetti

Answer 29

two Italian immigrants accused of murder and theft executed in boston for crime no evidence

Question 30

charlie chaplin

Answer 30

famous comedic actor

Question 31

babe ruth

Answer 31

famous baseball player most home rusnb

Question 32

charles lindbergh

Answer 32

famous pilot flew from NY to paris spirit of st. louis 33 hours

Question 33

sigmund freud

Answer 33

psychologist behavior is driven by unconscious desires not rational thought mental illness is caused by no sex

Question 34

f scott fitzgerald

Answer 34

apart of lost generation famous author

Question 35

marcus garvey

Answer 35

“back to africa” movement separatism (UNIA)

Question 36

louis armstrong

Answer 36

jazz singer

Question 37

langston hughes

Answer 37

poet apart of renaissance

Question 38

al capone

Answer 38

from chicago infamous bootlegger

Question 39

post ww1 economy

Answer 39

economy was bad inflation wages stayed the same many strikes europe was severe food shortage

Question 40

henry ford affects

Answer 40

created mass production upper need for gas, hotels, etc

Question 41

hardings political policies

Question 42

political scandals

Answer 42

albert fall- teapot dome charles forbes- veterans bureau (floor cleaner took money) damaged republican reputation