1920-1930

Question 1

Scandals

Answer 1

Rumors of one in the office doing unmoral things

Question 2

European debt

Answer 2

Britain and France were going into debt from buying to produce goods and building up for the war effort. After the war, us gave out loans to the Germans.

Question 3

Hoover

Answer 3

Created charities were people could go and live off of government welfare till they found a job. He was not seen positively.

Question 4

Franklin Roosevelt

Answer 4

Very positive, well with the people, created New Deal to create more jobs.

Question 5

New deal

Answer 5

The three rs or goals of the new deal was to relieve, reform, recovery. New deal was an act that got government sponsored projects so people could make a living again.

Question 6

New deal laws

Answer 6

Created a hundred days, national bank holiday, Reforistation Relief Act, CCC, federal emergency relief act, home owners refinancing act, public works administration and many more.

Question 7

New deal opposers

Answer 7

Father Coughlin was upset he didn’t create banks national and made an anti new deal radio show.
Huey long wanted everyone to get something.

Question 8

Court packing schemes

Answer 8

FDR wanted to replace the old justices with new ones

Question 9

Expatriate writers

Answer 9

Those who tried to expose the truth

Question 10

Hemingway

Answer 10

Wrote most of his life and went to live in London and Cuba. Committed suicide 1961

Question 11

Langston Hughes

Answer 11

Wrote about the colored life in America. Many poems

Question 12

F Scott Fitzgerald

Answer 12

Famous for writing about exposing pieces and questioning the government. Heart attack on 1940

Question 13

Fundamentalism

Answer 13

Belief of following the bible or scripture directly and literally.

Question 14

Scopes monkey trial

Answer 14

High school teacher was found guilty for teaching evolution.

Question 15

KKK

Answer 15

Violence group that made their efforts against the submerging of blacks

Question 16

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 16

The birth of new black writing and different focus. Was sharing their life through art

Question 17

Stock market crash

Answer 17

Causes: loans, taking out money at same, inflated market prices. Drop in farming.
Effects: unemployment, homeless, foodless

Question 18

Buying on the margin

Answer 18

Was able to create unrealistic prices and share amount in stock

Question 19

Installment plans

Answer 19

We’re acts that excused consumers from paying a down payment till later. It lost them a bunch of money.

Question 20

Advertising

Answer 20

It was a new idea and in the newspapers and it was trusted so many people were buying new things

Question 21

New deals for bankers

Answer 21

Made it so the bank was insured and promoted foreign exchange

Question 22

Flappers

Answer 22

Women who pushed the fashion industry buy wearing shorter clothing with les layers and shorter hair.

Question 23

19th admendment

Answer 23

Allowed women to vote.

Question 24

18th admendment

Answer 24

Prohibition and proved women could be in politics

Question 25

Eleanor Roosevelt

Answer 25

Big women image and helped poor, racism, children and visited troops during war time

Question 26

Working conditions

Answer 26

Harsh, long hours for little pay

Question 27

Labor unions

Answer 27

If there was enough workers alert of it they were strong but some companies they could just not win against.

Question 28

Immigration

Answer 28

Some from East Europe but mostly former slaves going north

Question 29

Immigration restrictions

Answer 29

Only 2% of the current population would be let in annually

Question 30

Red scare

Answer 30

The idea that communism was a terrible thing and that all the other countries were gonna turn communist

Question 31

Palmer raids

Answer 31

Cases of arresting radical leftists to try and contain communism

Question 32

Sacco and Vanzetti

Answer 32

Italian anarchists that were found guilty and hung for a robbery they didn't do

Question 33

Wagner Act

Answer 33

The right to form unions as an employee

Question 34

Overproduction

Answer 34

Over or ducting food made prices and em and drop making farmers bankrupt

Question 35

Government support

Answer 35

The lack of government efforts to stop the problem made it worse because they tried to grow more to produce more. GD didn't help.

Question 36

Great Depression on farmers

Answer 36

Many lived of the land. Some became hobos. Agriculture had died. Dust bowl destroyed homes and caused more sickness.

Question 37

Tariffs and attitudes

Answer 37

Promoted foreign trade making Europe take huge loans