Motion Pictures to the end of The Great Depression

Question 1

First motion picture without sound

Answer 1

Silent Films

Question 2

First motion picture with words (Jazz singer was the 1st talkie film)

Answer 2

talkies

Question 3

gave Americans a sense of freedom and independence

Answer 3

The automobile

Question 4

the greatest engineer of the time

Answer 4

Henry Ford

Question 5

auto-capital of the world

Answer 5

Detroit

Question 6

new Negro movement

Answer 6

Harlem Renaissance

Question 7

Capital of black America

Answer 7

Harlem (NYC)

Question 8

“invisible empire”- supreme Grand wizard was the leader

Answer 8

K.K.K (Ku Klux Klan)

Question 9

Symbol for the K.K.K

Answer 9

flaming cross

Question 10

Ushers in the Age of Aviation

Answer 10

Charles Lindbergh

Question 11

started the “Back to Africa Movement”- a controversial figure said it was hopeless to integrate the races in America

Answer 11

Marcus Garvey

Question 12

cofounder of the NAACP (national association for the advancement of the colored people)

Answer 12

W.E.B Du Bois

Question 13

group of writers who lived in Paris during the 20’s

Answer 13

Lost generation

Question 14

wrote “a farewell to Arms” and “to whom the bell tolls”

Answer 14

Ernest Hemingway

Question 15

wrote “The great gatspy”- book that exposes that money doesnt buy happiness

Answer 15

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 16

official beginning to the Great Depression

Answer 16

The stock market crash

Question 17

major source of help during the great depression

Answer 17

bread/soup lines (mostly churches)

Question 18

settlement for the unemployed “hooverville”

Answer 18

Shanty Towns

Question 19

U.S president at the beginning of the Great Depression

Answer 19

Herbert Hoover

Question 20

American soldiers from WW1 had been promised a bonus, paid by the government until 1945

Answer 20

Bonus Army

Question 21

ran as a democrat against Herbert Hoover

Answer 21

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 22

Roosevelt talked with the people over the radio- a method of communication used to explain his program to U.S Citizens

Answer 22

Fireside Chat

Question 23

group of leading scholars/businessmen- cabinet (advisors)

Answer 23

Brain Trust