Roaring Twenties

Question 1

Period of influential changes in lifestyles, arts, and technology

Answer 1

Roaring Twenties

Question 2

What was Arkansas nick name in the 1920s

Answer 2

The Wonder State

Question 3

What was AR’s largest money maker

Answer 3

Timber and Furniture industries

Question 4

NAACP

Answer 4

National Association for the advancement of colored people

Question 5

Jazz club in Harlem, New York, that featured some of the greatest black of that time but only served whites

Answer 5

Cotton Club

Question 6

What year was the most destructive flood in American history

Answer 6

1927

Question 7

What was the unemployment rate during the great depression

Answer 7

25%

Question 8

How many banks and businesses declared bank ruptcy

Answer 8

Over 100,000

Question 9

Won by a large margin becoming the first female US senator and was from AR.

Answer 9

Hattie Caraway

Question 10

Closed all US banks; they were only allowed to reopen when proved financially strong

Answer 10

Bank Holiday

Question 11

$9 million to rail roads; provided food, shelter, and money for unemployment

Answer 11

FERA

Question 12

collected taxes to pay pensions for retired, disabled and unemployed.

Answer 12

Social Security

Question 13

One that is opposed to government programs

Answer 13

Conservative

Question 14

One that is supportive of government programs

Answer 14

Liberal

Question 15

Opposed to government regulation; hands off policy

Answer 15

Laissez Faire

Question 16

Used FERA funds, to create an ideal farm community for AR relief Clients. Used AR Programs as model. Dyess is owner. Designed in the shape of a wagon wheel.

Answer 16

Dyess Colony

Question 17

Turned Great Plains in to a dust bowl

Answer 17

Drought

Question 18

Farmers who loaded up their belongings and moved west to California in search of food and Work

Answer 18

Arkies

Question 19

What did AR do for the war

Answer 19

engaged in wheatless Mondays and meatless Tuesdays

• bought $2 million in war bonds
• about 72,000 Arkansans served in the armed forces

Question 20

Elaine race riots

Answer 20

Late September of 1919 union members were at an evening meeting 3 miles north of Elaine. Because of suspicion, African American soldiers were placed outside with guns. A car arrived outside carrying 2 armed men ( a deputy sheriff and a railroad agent along with a black trusty from jail) They were hunting for a whiskey runner. It was not known who shot first, but shots broke out. On the 2 days ad One night of the Elaine race riot, 5 whites and 25 blacks were killed. Other reports had black deaths at a number closer to 100. The highest estimate of black deaths was 856. After the riot, 65 African American were tried for various charges. 12 were sentenced to death. 4 were murdered. They quickly appealed to higher courts. Little Rocks leading African American lawyer was Scorpio Jones. The New National Association of colored People. (NAACP) helped finance appeals. In the end the high courts freed all the men.

Question 21

19th Amendment

Answer 21

• Women granted right to vote

- Role of women changed

Question 22

Harvey Couch

Answer 22

• Began building telephone lines across the state
• Then he founded the Arkansas Power and light company. Which brought electricity to many parts of the state. The company eventually became Entergy.
• Convinced Northern Bankers to build dams on the Ouachita lake, Lakes Catherine, and Lake Hamilton.
• Started Arkansas first radio station WOK in Pine Bluff

Question 23

Arkansas Advancement Association

Answer 23

Formed to promote good points of the state to out-of-state investors
-Brought new paper and magazine writers to tour Arkansas

Question 24

Using borrowed money to fund government programs

Answer 24

Deflict spending

Question 25

Formed to ban savings accounts

Answer 25

FDIC

Question 26

To end peoples need for government aid; People were hired to build, it became Arkansas largest employer

Answer 26

WPA

Question 27

Paid farmers NOT to grow crops; as quantity decreased price stabilized.

Answer 27

AAA

Question 28

Payments went to landowners not tenants who farmed the land. Landowners didn’t share the money; Union was formed by black Share croppers.

Answer 28

Southern tenant farmers union

Question 29

Hired projects like trails and cabins for Petit Jean MTN.

Answer 29

CCC

Question 30

Hired for skilled laborers for projects such as Robinson theater

Answer 30

PWA

Question 31

Flapper

Answer 31

• Liberal woman with their newly found freedoms

- Wore bobbed hair, makeup, and shorter dresses

Question 32

18th amendment

Answer 32

• Prohibited the manufacturing, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages.
• Prohibition

Question 33

An AR Soldier killed in action during WW1 who received the Congressional medal of Honor

Answer 33

Oscar Franklin Miller

Question 34

An accomplished markson in the US Army during WW1; awarded the distinguished service cross

Answer 34

Herman Davis

Question 35

Soldier who served 2 months in WW1 before his plane was shot down and later his diary was assembled into war birds: The Diary of an Unknown Aviator.

Answer 35

John Grider

Question 36

Native of Gravette (Benton County) and a WW1 flying ace; earned the British distinguished flying cross and the American distinguished service cross with an oak leaf cluster. Only 2 people in the war shot down aircraft for the US army Airseriviece during WW1

Answer 36

Field E. Kindley