Study Guide

Question 0

What steps did Hoover take to address the crisis?

Answer 0

He spent money on highways parks and library’s and created a place where business’s can barrow money

Question 1

What were the causes of the Great Depression?

Answer 1

Some of the factors that contributed to the Great Depression were installment buying(credit), the economy was unbalanced, the stock market had crashed,and the farm economy was weak.

Question 2

What was the bonus army?

Answer 2

It was people who fought in World War One and were guaranteed a bonus on a certain year and during the Great Depression the they demanded for their bonus’s then

Question 3

Causes of unrest immediately after WW1 and why they rose?

Answer 3

Strikes- Wages didn’t keep up with profits

Red Scare- People thought communists where every where

Great Migration- Blacks moving up north

Question 4

What caused the great migration and what impact did it have?

Answer 4

There were jobs up north so the blacks moved up there and it had an effect because the KKK members were strongest during this time

Question 5

Why is Harding considered a bad president?

Answer 5

He appointed people who were not qualified for the jobs they were given and ran a corrupt government

Question 6

What made the US economy take off in the twenties?

Answer 6

Assembly line helps reduce the cost of cars.
The cost of labor goes down
The cost of materials goes down
Production: labor,materials,and capital
Access to electricity Homes by new appliances
Radio Installment buying

Question 7

What is installment buying and what impact did it have

Answer 7

Installment buying is purchasing something and paying for it later and this was a big impact because you didn’t have to have the money to buy something.

Question 8

How did the automobile impact and change the US

Answer 8

America was not an automobile nation before the twenties and after the twenties horses were gone. And people were able to live in the suburbs and still get to work on time

Question 9

Who were Sacco and Vanzetti

Answer 9

They were anarchists who were convicted of murdering a guard

Question 10

Who was Marcus Garvey

Answer 10

He was the man who helped start the return to Africa

Question 11

Who was A. Michael Palmer

Answer 11

He was an attorney who oversaw the Red Scare

Question 12

What did Harding mean by “Normalcy”

Answer 12

He wanted an end to foreign involvement and domestic turmoil

Question 13

What are some of Coolidges policies for foreign policy

Answer 13

He didn’t want to join the League of Nations but wanted to promote peace. Negotiated with Mexico rather than sending in troops

Question 14

What are Coolidges policies for buisness

Answer 14

He believed that they should be supported and cut spending and lowered taxes on wealthy citizens and he also turned over laws protecting women’s and children’s wages

Question 15

Who did not experience prosperity during the decade of the 1920’s

Answer 15

The farmers,railroad workers,and coal miners

Question 16

How did U.S culture change during the decade of the 1920’s

Answer 16

It changed by the invention of many things like auto mobiles, home appliances,color and sound movies, and also the radio

Question 17

What was the Harlem Renaissance

Answer 17

It was a name that was given to the huge cultural and social explosion in Harlem in which it was a cultural center for African American writers,artists,musicians, and poets

Question 18

What was Prohibition

Answer 18

It was when alcohol was outlawed by the government

Question 19

What is Nativisim (KKK, National Origins Act)

Answer 19

It was when the KKK didn’t want immigrants to come into their country and take their jobs

Question 20

What was the scopes trial

Answer 20

It was a trial about a high school substitute teacher teaching human evolution to students in Tennessee

Question 21

What are the laws or supply and demand

Answer 21

Law of demand 
When price goes up demand goes down 
When price goes down demand goes up
Rule of supply 
When price goes up supply goes up