US History Final Semester 1

Question 1

Positives for Women

Answer 1

more jobs, more appliances, ready made food, kids were at school and organized activities

Question 2

Alcohol Caused

Answer 2

violence, accidents on the job, and crime

Question 3

NAACP did

Answer 3

Protested racial violence, fought civil rights, try to stop lynching

Question 4

NAACP

Answer 4

National Association of Advancement of Colored People

Question 5

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 5

African- American literacy, artistic movement (expresses pride in African American experience)

Question 6

UNIA

Answer 6

Universal Negro Improvement Association

Question 7

flapper

Answer 7

short hair cut, short skirts, smoked and drank in public, didn’t like them, more assertive

Question 8

fundamentalism

Answer 8

skeptical of some scientific discoveries and theories; they argued that all important knowledge came from the bible

Question 9

speakeasy

Answer 9

hidden saloons or nightclubs

Question 10

bootlegger

Answer 10

smuggler’s practice of carrying liquor in the legs of boots

Question 11

scopes trial

Answer 11

debates evolution, role of science, religion in school

Question 12

double standard

Answer 12

women had less sexual freedom than men

Question 13

places where jazz was popular

Answer 13

New orleans 
St louis 
Memphis 
Newyork 
Kansas City

Question 14

Zora Neale Hurston

Answer 14

shows folkways, values of poor, southern blacks

Question 15

Paul Robeson

Answer 15

major dramatic actor in London, New York

Question 16

Sin Claire Lewis

Answer 16

first American to win nobel Prize for literature

Question 17

Ernest Hemingway

Answer 17

introduces simple, tough, American style writing

Question 18

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Answer 18

reveals negative side of era’s gaiety, freedom

Question 19

George Gershwin

Answer 19

uses jazz to create American music

Question 20

Charles A. Lindbergh

Answer 20

made the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic

Question 21

Clarence Darrow

Answer 21

most famous trial lawyer, defends scopes

Question 22

Langston Hughes

Answer 22

makes poems that describes difficult lives of the working class

Question 23

Al Capone

Answer 23

controls chicago liquor business by killing competitors

Question 24

18th amendment

Answer 24

ademendent that launches Prohibition Era; supported by religious groups, rural South, West

Question 25

21th Amendment

Answer 25

repealed the 18th

Question 26

What happened to the high school population

Answer 26

increased

Question 27

People who approved prohibition

Answer 27

fundamentalists, organized crime, people that lived in the rural south