units 5

Question 1

The boom refers to

Answer 1

the decade of the 1920’s.

Question 2

John green said that 1920s gave us good and bad what are the good things

Answer 2

labor saving devices
assembly line
women can vote

Question 3

john green said that 1920s gave us good and bad what are the bad things

Answer 3

revival of the KKK
stock market crash
St.Valentine’s day Massacre (rise of gangsters)

Question 4

the 1920s giving us the worst economic crises of all time is what and why

Answer 4

its an opinion because someone might consider something else worse

Question 5

who said “the chief business of the American people is business”

Answer 5

calvin coolidge

Question 6

the presidents in the 1920s were all part of what party

Answer 6

republicans

Question 7

productivity improved in the 1920s why and who was it perfected by

Answer 7

industries adopted the assembly line, which was perfected by henry ford

Question 8

four labor saving devices invented in the 1920s

Answer 8

vacuums
toasters
fridges
cheap car

Question 9

for celebrities that achieved great fame in the 1920s

Answer 9

Charles Lindbergh
Charlie Chaplin
Rudolph Valentino
Babe Ruth

Question 10

Harlem became an important cultural center of () during the 1920s

Answer 10

Black America

Question 11

who came up with the concept of “the marketplace of ideas

Answer 11

supreme court justice oliver wendell holms

Question 12

what dose the marketplace of idea mean

Answer 12

this means that it’s a place for freedom of expression based on an analogy to the economic concept of a free market

Question 13

by the end of the decade the usa was producing ()% of the worlds cars and ()% of the world’s manufactured goods

Answer 13

85% of the worlds cars and 40% of the world’s manufactured goods

Question 14

the “big 3” automobile dealers in the 1920s

Answer 14

ford
chrysler
general motors

Question 15

the bust refers to what decade

Answer 15

1930s

Question 16

what are the years of WW2

Answer 16

1941-1945

Question 17

the narrator say that the boom was bought with what

Answer 17

the boom was bought with credit

Question 18

the narrator says in the video that some stocks are valued at () times what they are really worth

Answer 18

50 times more

Question 19

why are some stocks valued more than they really are

Answer 19

this is because FED (federal reverse system) artificially increased interest rates

Question 20

the stock market chrashed in what year

Answer 20

1929

Question 21

why was the stock market crash such a big deal

Answer 21

it was a time when the stock market lost 12 times more cash in 3 weeks than the US gov uses in a year

Question 22

()% of the usa population owned stock in 1929

Answer 22

2% owned stock

Question 23

by 1933 there were () states without banks

Answer 23

28 states

Question 24

what was “the roaring 20s”

Answer 24

jazz age, dance age, age of prohibition

Question 25

the red scare 1918- what did the communists (bolsheviks) do

Answer 25

killed the last Czar, took control of russian gov and people worry about radical communism spreading to the us

Question 26

the red scare palmer raids:

Answer 26

attack peoples liberties

Question 27

jazz age new styel of music:

Answer 27

uniquely american, improvised, influences from Europe/Africa

Question 28

louis armstrong:

Answer 28

new orleans jazz singer

Question 29

jazz and blues born in the (), spread to the () cities via "the great migration"

Answer 29

jazz was born in the south spread to the north

Question 30

lucky lindy (years)

Answer 30

1927

Question 31

the monkey trial 1925

Answer 31

small tennessee town, teaches darwin's theory of evolution vs the bible story of creation

Question 32

the monkey trial 1925 bryan

Answer 32

creationism wins, but he pays scope's fine

Question 33

the great depression what happened during oct. 1929

Answer 33

stock market crash "black thursday"

Question 34

the bust refers to what

Answer 34

bubble of speculation" was created and then "popped"

Question 35

the great depression why did the bubble exist

Answer 35

the fed tricked the people into thinking they were saving their money

Question 36

the great depression why did entrepreneurs/speculators fail to anticipate this crash

Answer 36

federal reserve (created in 1913)and artificially low interest rates

Question 37

prohibition was tried and failed why was it tried

Answer 37

people drank too much young drinking temperance not enough paychecks got spent at bars thought it would be safer wanted more control

Question 38

what does fed stand for

Answer 38

federal reserve system

Question 39

what was the first decade where urban citizens surpassed rural in the US

Answer 39

1920s

Question 40

the US presidents of the great depression

Answer 40

herbert hoover franklin d. roosevelt

Question 41

hoovervilles

Answer 41

desperate for shelter, homeless citizens built shantytowns in and around cities across the nation. These camps came to be called Hoovervilles, after the president

Question 42

what was the depression with in the depression

Question 43

bonus army

Answer 43

military soldier that wanted their retirement paycheck early

Question 44

smoot-hawley tariff act

Answer 44

a law that implemented protectionist trade policies

Question 45

“buying on margin"

Answer 45

Buying on margin involves 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 46

flapper

Answer 46

Flappers were a subculture of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.

Question 47

what is the famous dance during the jazz age`

Answer 47

Charleston (the dance)

Question 48

Louis Armstrong

Answer 48

Very influential jazz musician, vocalist and trumpet, new orleans

Question 49

“The Great Migration”

Answer 49

The Great Migration was one of the largest movements of people in United States history. Approximately 6 mil Black people moved from the American South to Northern, Midwestern, and Western states roughly from the 1910s until the 1970s.

Question 50

New Deal

Answer 50

Gave a bunch of jobs and “ended” the great depression.

Question 51

Social Security

Answer 51

a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability and survivor benefits.

Question 52

calvin coolidge