Unit 5 - WWI and 20s

Question 1

Domestic Affairs

Answer 1

Internal (national) issues—stuff that

happens in America

Question 2

Tariff

Answer 2

• Tax on imported goods
• Example: Smoot-Hawley Tariff raised
taxes on all imported goods

Question 3

Isolationism

Answer 3

• When a country keeps to itself and stays
out of world conflicts & wars
• Example: America after WWI

Question 4

Protectionism

Answer 4

• Trying to protect native born Americans
and American businesses
• Examples: limiting immigration; passing a
tariff on German steel; “buy American”
programs

Question 5

Communism

Answer 5

• The government makes all economic

decisions

Question 6

Red Scare

Answer 6

• Post WWI reaction to communism—driven

by fear and mistrust

Question 7

Sacco and Vanzetti

Answer 7

• Italian-immigrant-anarchists—accused of

murder—and executed

Question 8

Anarchy

Answer 8

• NO Government

Question 9

Palmer Raids

Answer 9

• Raids on suspected communists

Question 10

19th Amendment

Answer 10

• Gave women the right to vote

Question 11

Great Migration

Answer 11

• Movement of African-Americans from

southern farms to northern cities

Question 12

Jim Crow

Answer 12

• Segregation laws that kept Blacks and

Whites separate in the South

Question 13

Urban Areas

Answer 13

Cities

Question 14

Rural Areas

Answer 14

The country

Question 15

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 15

• A celebration of African-American culture
in the 1920s:
Jazz
Art
Poetry
Literature

Question 16

Prohibition

Answer 16

• 13-year ban on alcohol (1920s)

Question 17

Speakeasy

Answer 17

• Secret bar where people drank during

prohibition

Question 18

Popular Culture

Answer 18

• The stuff most people do and like

Question 19

Consumerism

Answer 19

• Buying more and more all the time

Question 20

Installment Plan

Answer 20

• Buying stuff on payments (instead of

paying cash upfront)

Question 21

Flapper

Answer 21

Young, modern, 1920s woman:
Short hair
Short dresses
Smoked
Drank Alcohol

Question 22

Buying Stocks on Margin

Answer 22

• Making a down payment on a stock &
trying to sell it for a profit (before paying
for the rest)

Question 23

Stock Speculation

Answer 23

• Buying stocks in anticipation that their
price will go up (regardless of the true
value of the stock)

Question 24

Herbert Hoover

Answer 24

President
1929-1933
All about businesses & Laissez Faire
economics