Unit 4 Test

Question 1

nativism

Answer 1

prejudice against foreign born people

Question 2

isolationism

Answer 2

a policy of pulling away from involvement in world affairs

Question 3

communism

Answer 3

an economic and political system based on a single party government ruled by a dictatorship

Question 4

anarchists

Answer 4

people who opposed any form of government

Question 5

Sacco and Vanzettii

Answer 5

Two Italians who were charged with robbery and 2 murders. Despite the little to none evidence against them, they were both sentenced to death.

Question 6

quota system

Answer 6

this system established the maximum number of people who could enter the US from each foreign country

Question 7

Warren Harding

Answer 7

Became president in 1921, wanted to return America to “normalcy” like before the Progressive Era and WWI, but had no success.

Question 8

Teapot Dome scandal

Answer 8

Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall’s secret leasing of oil rich public land to private companies in exchange for money and land.

Question 9

Calvin Coolidge

Answer 9

President who favored government policies that would keep taxes down and business profit up. Goal was to keep government interference in business to a minimum and to allow private enterprise to flourish.

Question 10

urban sprawl

Answer 10

the unplanned and uncontrolled spreading of cities into surrounding regions

Question 11

installment plan

Answer 11

enabled people to buy goods over an extended period without having to put down much money at the time of the purchase

Question 12

prohibition

Answer 12

era in which the manufacturing, sale, and transportation of alcohol beverages was illegal.

Question 13

speakeasies

Answer 13

hidden saloons and nightclubs where people drunk illegally

Question 14

bootleggers

Answer 14

liquor smugglers bringing alcohol from other countries to sell in the US, name came from the practice of smuggling alcohol in the legs of boots

Question 15

fundamentalism

Answer 15

protestant movement grounded in a literal, non symbolic, interpretation of the Bible

Question 16

Clarence Darrow

Answer 16

the most famous trial lawyer of the day, hired to defend John Scopes in the Scopes trial

Question 17

Scopes trial

Answer 17

a fight over the teaching of evolution in fundamentalist school

Question 18

flapper

Answer 18

an emancipated young woman who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day

Question 19

double standard

Answer 19

a set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women

Question 20

Charles Lundbergh

Answer 20

Small town pilot, made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic.

Question 21

Georgia O’Keefe

Answer 21

Painter who produced intensely colored canvases that captured the grandeur of New York.

Question 22

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Answer 22

Author who gave the 20s era the name “Jazz Age”, he revealed the negative side of the period’s gaiety and freedom, portraying wealthy and attractive people leading imperiled lives in gilded surroundings.

Question 23

Ernest Hemingway

Answer 23

Wounded in the war, he criticized the glorification of war in his books; introduced a tough, simplified style of writing that set a new literature standard.

Question 24

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 24

a literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture

Question 25

Langston Hughes

Answer 25

Was the movement’s best known poet, poems described the difficult lives of working class African-Americans.

Question 26

Louis Armstrong

Answer 26

A young trumpet player, famous for his astounding sense of rhythm and his ability to improvise.

Question 27

Bessie Smith

Answer 27

A female blues singer, recorded on black-oriented labels produced by the major record companies.

Question 28

Fordney-McCumber Tariff

Answer 28

US adopted it to protect businesses from foreign competition. Made it difficult for France and Britain to sell goods in the US.

Question 29

Dawes Plan

Answer 29

American investors loaned Germany billions of dollars to pay its war reparations to Britain and France.

Question 30

Paul Robeson

Answer 30

Actor, “Othello”, support for soviet union and communist party