WWI, 20's, and 30's

Question 1

Period of influential changes in lifestyles, arts and technology

Answer 1

Roaring Twenties

Question 2

liberal women with their newly found freedoms who wore bobbed hair, makeup, and shorter dresses. They were eager to try something new

Answer 2

Flapper

Question 3

18th Amendment

Answer 3

Prohibited the manufacturing, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages

Question 4

19th Amendment

Answer 4

Women granted right to vote, role of women changed

Question 5

Harvey Couch

Answer 5

1. Began building telephone lines across the state
2. Founded the Arkansas Power and Light Company
3. Convinced Northern bankers to build dams on Ouachita River
4. Started AR’s first radio station WOK in Pine Bluff

Question 6

Where did AR’s Oil Boom start

Answer 6

El Dorado, AR was the 4th largest producer of oil

Question 7

What was the Arkansas Advancement Association

Answer 7

formed to promote good points of the state to out-of-state investors, brought newspaper and magazine writers to tour AR

Question 8

What was the state’s nickname in the 1920’s

Answer 8

the wonder state

Question 9

What was AR’s largest money maker

Answer 9

Timber and Furniture

Question 10

jazz club in Harlem, New York, that featured some of the greatest black entertainers of that time but only served whites

Answer 10

Cotton Club

Question 11

What led to the Elaine Race Riot

Answer 11

A mix of fear of Russia, fear of blacks getting power, and rumors that broke out.

Question 12

How long did the Elaine Race Riot last

Answer 12

Two days

Question 13

How many people died in the Elaine Race Riot

Answer 13

there was a range of twenty five to 856 blacks that were killed and five whites

Question 14

What was the end result of the Elaine Race Riot

Answer 14

Sixty-five African Americans were tried on various charges. Twelve of them were sentenced to murder. They were later freed with the help of the NAACP

Question 15

What were 3 things that AR did to help the war effort in WWI

Answer 15

they engaged in Wheatless Mondays and Meatless Tuesdays, they bought nearly $2 million in war bonds, and about 72,000 Arkansans served in the Armed Forces

Question 16

an AR soldier killed in action during WWI who received the Congressional Medal of Honor

Answer 16

Major Oscar Franklin Miller

Question 17

an accomplished marksman in the US Army during WWI, he was awarded with the Distinguished Service Cross

Answer 17

Private Herman Davis

Question 18

WWI flying ace, earned the British Distinguished Service Cross and the American Distinguished Serviced Cross with an oak leaf cluster. Only two people in the war shot down more aircraft for the US Army during WWI

Answer 18

Captain field E. Kindley

Question 19

soldier who served two months in WWI before he was shot down. His diary was assembled into “War Birds: the Diary of an Unknown Aviator”

Answer 19

Lieutenant John McGavock Grider

Question 20

Described as the most destructive river-flood in US history, Arkansas was the hardest hit of eight flooded states

Answer 20

The Flood of 1927

Question 21

drought

Answer 21

go without rain for a long period of time

Question 22

Farmers from AR who moved to California in search of food and work

Answer 22

Arkies

Question 23

what did the unemployment rate go to in the 1930’s

Answer 23

25%

Question 24

192 banks failed, nearly 1/2 of all businesses closed, 245,000 Arkansans lost their jobs, local and county governments were without funds, state’s debt began to grow

Answer 24

the Depression hits AR

Question 25

won by a large margin, becoming the first female US senator, she campaigned to fill the Senate seat for a full term, opposing 6 men (including Governor Brough)

Answer 25

Hattie Caraway

Question 26

closed all banks in US; only allowed to reopen when they proved financially strong

Answer 26

Bank Holiday

Question 27

using borrowed money to fund government programs

Answer 27

Deficit spending

Question 28

formed to back savings accounts

Answer 28

FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corp)

Question 29

formed to end people’s need for government aid; people were hired to build, became AR’s largest employer

Answer 29

WPA (Works Progress Association)

Question 30

$9 million to AR; provided food, shelter, and money for unemployed

Answer 30

FERA (Federal Emergency Relief Administration)

Question 31

paid farmers NOT to grow crops; as quantity decreased prices stabalized

Answer 31

AAA (Agriculture Adjustment Act)

Question 32

payments went to landowners, not tenants who farmed the land. Landowners did not share the money. Union was formed by black and white tenants.

Answer 32

Southern Tenant Farmer’s Union

Question 33

hired young men to work on outdoor projects

Answer 33

CCC (Civilian Conservation Corp)

Question 34

hired skilled laborers for projects such as Robinson Auditorium

Answer 34

PWA (Public Works Administration)

Question 35

Roosevelt created Farm Security Administration, Used AR program as model, Divided 16,000 acres into 500 farmsteads for 3000 white Arkansans, Designed in the shape of a wagon wheel

Answer 35

Dyess Colony

Question 36

one supported of government programs

Answer 36

Liberal

Question 37

one opposed to government programs

Answer 37

Conservative

Question 38

opposed to government regulation; hands-off policy

Answer 38

Laissez faire