Roaring Twenties

Question 1

What could the US economy go into?

Answer 1

Boom, Recession, Depression

Question 2

Foreclosure

Answer 2

banks taking your homes

Question 3

What is recession?

Answer 3

Economic Slump

Question 4

What did voter discontent lead voters to elect?

Answer 4

Republican

Question 5

Who did Warren G. Harding choose?

Answer 5

able men who followed pro-business policies.

Question 6

Who became the secretary of commerce and what did he/she do?

Answer 6

Herbert Hoover,

worked to help American business expand overseas

Question 7

Who is Albert Fall and what did he do?

Answer 7

Secretary of Interior

he secretly leased two oil executives government land in California and Teapot Dome, Wyoming

Question 8

What was the result of Fall’s issues?

Answer 8

Fall became the first Cabinet official ever sent to prison

Question 9

What is with the “Ohio Gang”?

Answer 9

old friends of Harding who filled other Cabinet posts.

Question 10

Who is Charles Forbes and what did he do?

Answer 10

Head of Veterans Bureau

convicted of stealing millions from the bureau

Question 11

What do many people believe caused Harding’s death? How did he actually die?

Answer 11

Due to all of the stress

Harding died in 1923 of a heart attack

Question 12

What did Coolidge believe that the prosperity of all Americans depended on?

Answer 12

success of American business

Question 13

Coolidge Prosperity?

Answer 13

factories switched to making consumer goods, the quantity of goods made by industry almost doubled, and incomes rose.

Question 14

What type of consumer products did Americans begin to buy?

Answer 14

Electric refrigerators, radios, phonographs, vacuum cleaners

Question 15

Installment Buying?

Answer 15

buying on credit. Buy now, pay later

Question 16

What gave the stock market a boost?

Answer 16

the economic boom

Question 17

Stock?

Answer 17

Share of ownership in a corporation

Question 18

Bull Market?

Answer 18

period of increased stock trading and rising prices

Question 19

Margin Buying?

Answer 19

An investor bought a stock for as little as a 10% down payment. The buyer held the stock until the price rose, and then sold it as a profit.

Question 20

What did auto industry do?

Answer 20

played a central role in the business boom of the 1920’s

Question 21

What sparked auto boom and what happened with it?

Answer 21

Lower prices sparked auto boom

by 1924 the cost of a Model T had dropped from $850-$290

Question 22

Why did car prices fall?

Answer 22

factories became more efficient

Question 23

What did General Motors do?

Answer 23

sold cars in a variety of models and colors

Question 24

By 1929, how many people owed their jobs to the automobile?

Answer 24

4 million Americans

Question 25

What jobs were associated with the automobile?

Answer 25

steel mills, tires, paint, glass, some drilled for oil in the Southwest

Question 26

What did states and towns do?

Answer 26

pave roads and built highways

Question 27

What sprang up across the country?

Answer 27

Gas stations, garages, car dealers, motels, and restaurants

Question 28

Prohibition?

Answer 28

ban on the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquid anywhere in the U.S.

Question 29

Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)?

Answer 29

worked to ban alcohol

Question 30

18th Amendment?

Answer 30

ban on alcohol

Question 31

Bootleggers?

Answer 31

person who smuggled liquor into the U.S.

Question 32

Speakeasies?

Answer 32

illegal bars

Question 33

What did many people do at home?

Answer 33

Make their own alcohol

Question 34

To enforce the ban the government sent out who and what are they?

Answer 34

“g-men”

federal agents

Question 35

What did Reduced Drinking do?

Answer 35

It never stopped it

Question 36

What amendment did the enforce and what did it it?

Answer 36

States ratified to the 21st Amendment which repealed the 18th Amendment

Question 37

What did Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution claim?

Answer 37

that all life had evolved, or developed, from simpler forms over a long period of time.

Question 38

What did some churches claim that Darwin’s theory denied?

Answer 38

the teaching of the bible

Question 39

What happened to John Scopes?

Answer 39

he was a biology teacher in Dayton, Tennessee and was arrested for teaching evolution to his classes.

Question 40

What was the outcome of the Scopes Trial?

Answer 40

he was convicted and fined. The law against teaching evolution remains on books, although they are rarely enforced.

Question 41

What were Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti arrested for in 1920?

Answer 41

robbery and murder

Question 42

What did the two men admit and deny?

Answer 42

they admitted that they became anarchists and insisted they did not commit a crime.

Question 43

Anarchists?

Answer 43

people who opposed al organized government

Question 44

What was the result of their trial?

Answer 44

both were convicted and sentenced to death

Question 45

Renaissance?

Answer 45

rebirth

Question 46

What was the Harlem Renaissance about?

Answer 46

Rebirth of African American Culture

Question 47

What type of African Americans settled in Harlem?

Answer 47

large numbers of musicians, artists, and writers

Question 48

What did black writers do?

Answer 48

Celebrated their African American heritages and protested prejudice and racism.