unit 28 roaring 20's great depression test

Question 1

What is “margin buying?”

Answer 1

getting a loan from your brokerage and using the money from the loan to invest in more securities than you can buy with your available cash

Question 2

Anything about prohibition

Answer 2

It was beer that was illegally made and sold and when police officer saw they they “turned a blind eye”

Question 3

Causes of the “Great Migration”

Answer 3

Jobs that where opening up in the north so african americans moved there in hope of finding a job

Question 4

What was the “Red Scare?”

Answer 4

federal officials launched a campaign against people they suspected of plotting to overthrow the government. With little or no cause, they arrested 6,000 suspected radicals

Question 5

Be familiar with the “Immigration Act of 1924.”The Immigration Act of 1924

Answer 5

reduced the number of immigrants allowed into the country. The law also reduced immigration from southern and eastern Europe. Another provision of the new law banned all immigration from Asia.

Question 6

Why was Harlem so significant during the 1920s?

Answer 6

Harlem became a symbol of the african american struggle for civil and economic equality

Question 7

What is “credit?”

Answer 7

Its when you buy something but you don’t have the money to buy it so you buy it on credit and pay monthly payments

Question 8

Definition of “radicalism”

Answer 8

a point of view favoring extreme change in social or economic structures, sometimes through violent revolution

Question 9

18th amendment

Answer 9

The 18 was the banning of alcohol

Question 10

19th amendment

Answer 10

19 was woman got the right to vote

Question 11

21st amendment

Answer 11

21 raticate or get rid of the 18 amendment

Question 12

Different forms of entertainment in the 1920’s

Answer 12

There was the radio you could go out and watch a movie or play or watch someone

Question 13

What was Jazz?

Answer 13

It was an entertainment that is music that was popular in the 1920s

Question 14

Why was John Scopes famous?

Answer 14

John Scopes was a teacher in Tennessee who became famous for going on trial for teaching evolution.

Question 15

Significance of October 29, 1929

Answer 15

Stock markets crashed in an event called black tuesday

Question 16

Why did many farmers lose their land in the early years of Depression?

Answer 16

Their farms became less valuable, land prices fell, or banks closed on them

Question 17

Why were some New Deal programs referred to as “safety net” programs?

Answer 17

Social Security and unemployment insurance still exist today, providing a major source of income for retired and unemployed workers.

Question 18

Be familiar with the Social Security Act

Answer 18

Its the check you get in the mail every month when you are retired,disables or jobless.

Question 19

What were Hoovervilles and why were they called that?

Answer 19

They were shacks made out of wood and metal tin they were called hoovervilles after president hoover

Question 20

Factors causing the Great Depression

Answer 20

The stock market crash and the problems of farmers were two of the many reasons the economy sank into a depression. Another problem was that millions of families had been left out of the prosperity of the 1920s. They didn’t have the money to buy the products that factories were turning out. Still another problem was that banks had loaned huge sums of money to foreign nations that could not afford to repay those debts.

Question 21

What was the “first hundred days” and why was it significant?

Answer 21

FDR pushed Congress to deal quickly with the nation’s problems. In that short time, Congress passed 15 major bills, a record for that number of days.

Question 22

Why did the Great Plains struggle during the 1930’s? (Dust Bowl? ???)

Answer 22

sand and dust covered everything and even made breathing difficult and farming impossible. One observer wrote, “There were no fields, only sand drifting into mounds.