USH Unit 6

Question 1

Secretary of Interior Albert Fall secretly leases government land to private parties containing oil reserves, led to distrust in federal government

Answer 1

Teapot Dome Scandal

Question 2

An economic theory that lower taxes will boost the economy as businesses and individuals invest their money, thereby creating higher tax revenue

Answer 2

Supply Side Economics

Question 3

A national policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs

Answer 3

Isolationism

Question 4

United States and 14 other countries agree to use peaceful diplomacy instead of war to settle conflict

Answer 4

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Question 5

The production of large quantities of goods using machinery and often an assembly line

Answer 5

Mass production

Question 6

A production system with machines and workers arranged so that each person performs an assigned task again and again as the item passes before them

Answer 6

Assembly Line

Question 7

Automobile built by the Ford Motor Company from 1908 to 1927

Answer 7

Model T

Question 8

Remaining income after deduction of taxes and living expenses

Answer 8

Disposable Income

Question 9

One of the first public broadcast radio stations in Pittsburg

Answer 9

KDKA

Question 10

Amount of sum of money placed at a person’s disposal by a bank on condition that it will be repaid with interest

Answer 10

Credit

Question 11

Farmers produced more during war, leading to excess crops combined with higher tariffs, agriculture in economic recession in 1920s

Answer 11

Quiet Depression

Question 12

Hostility toward immigrants

Answer 12

Nativism

Question 13

A person who believes that there should be no government

Answer 13

Anarchists

Question 14

Targeted anyone they saw as “un-American”, go to uphold white supremacy, by 1924 four million Americans were members

Answer 14

KKK

Question 15

Made immigration restriction permanent, law set quotas at 2% of each national group represented in US Census of 1890

Answer 15

National Origins Act

Question 16

Challenged social norms for women (smoking, drinking, makeup, skirts, sleeveless dresses, use of birth control)

Answer 16

Flapper

Question 17

The scientific theory that humans and other forms of life have evolved over time

Answer 17

Evolution

Question 18

The belief that God created the world and everything in it, usually in the way described in the Bible

Answer 18

Creationism

Question 19

High school science teacher Thomas Scopes accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law

Answer 19

Scopes Monkey Trial

Question 20

Places where alcoholic beverages were sold illegally

Answer 20

Speakeasies

Question 21

Banned sale, production, or consumption of alcohol in the United States

Answer 21

18th Amendment

Question 22

Medium of communication (such as television and radio) intended to reach a wide audience

Answer 22

Mass Media

Question 23

The movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970

Answer 23

Great Migration

Question 24

First “talking” picture in 1927, sparks the golden age of Hollywood

Answer 24

Jazz Singer

Question 25

American style of music that developed from ragtime and blues and that uses syncopated rhythms and improvisation

Answer 25

Jazz

Question 26

Promised a "return to normalcy" following WWI

Answer 26

Warren Harding

Question 27

Harding's Secretary of Interior, secretly leased government land in Teapot Dome Scandal

Answer 27

Albert Hall

Question 28

Prosperity falls to business leaders, government should stay out of business, kept several cabinet members from Harding's admin

Answer 28

Calvin Coolidge

Question 29

Adopted assembly line, dividing operations into simpler tasks, automobile ownership speaks to America's rising standard of living

Answer 29

Henry Ford

Question 30

Completed first transatlantic solo flight in 1927, banished doubts about potential of airplanes, by 1928 there were 48 airlines serving 355 US cities

Answer 30

Charles Lindbergh

Question 31

In 1903, became pioneers and inventors of aviation

Answer 31

Wright Brothers

Question 32

Italian immigrants arrested for murder and robbery, evidence was questionable but people assumed they were guilty, they were executed

Answer 32

Sacco and Vanzetti

Question 33

Very famous mobster, organized crime, affiliated with speakeasies, opened one of the first soup kitchens during the Great Depression

Answer 33

Al Capone

Question 34

Renowned baseball player, "The Great Bambino"

Answer 34

Babe Ruth

Question 35

Founded Universal Negro Improvement Association, promoted black pride and unity, supported "Back to Africa" movement

Answer 35

Marcus Garvey