1920's Test - Sheet1

Question 1

If there are more buyers than sellers, the price of the stock goes ______

Answer 1

up

Question 2

Famous pilot during the 1920s

Answer 2

Charles Lindbergh

Question 3

FDIC insures deposits up to $250,000

Answer 3

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,

Question 4

First woman to fly across the Atlantic

Answer 4

Amelia Earhart

Question 5

Secret/underground bar

Answer 5

Speakeasies

Question 6

Low-waisted dresses, hats, bobbed hair, loosely-fitted, must be able to dance

Answer 6

Characteristics of fashion in the 1920s

Question 7

Foxtrot, waltz, tango

Answer 7

Popular dances of the 1920s

Question 8

Delayed marriages, less divorce, deserted children, took money out of banks

Answer 8

American response to the Great Depression

Question 9

How many stocks were sold on Black Tuesday?

Answer 9

16.4 million

Question 10

Buying/selling alcohol illegally

Answer 10

Bootlegging

Question 11

Person who buys and sells stocks for clients

Answer 11

Stock broker

Question 12

Famous cornet player and singer

Answer 12

Louis Armstrong

Question 13

First U.S. President from Iowa. President 1928-1932, believed in Rugged Individualism: belief that you needed to help yourself and avoid getting government help.

Answer 13

Herbert Hoover

Question 14

Radio and advertisements

Answer 14

Reasons why people bought more goods in the 1920s

Question 15

Emerged from African American culture, relaxed style of music that was extremely popular in the 1920s

Answer 15

Jazz music

Question 16

Date of the official stock market crash (the first was temporary). Began the Great Depression

Answer 16

Black Tuesday

October 29, 1929.

Question 17

Paralysis resulting in the inclusion of poisonous ingredients in illegal alcohol

Answer 17

Jake Leg

Question 18

Films with music or commentary, but no audio

Answer 18

Silent Films

Question 19

First famous jazz trombone player

Answer 19

Edward “Kid” Ory

Question 20

Attorney General associated with the Smoke-Filled Room, the American Metal Company, and bootlegging. All of his work was done by his assistant, Jesse Smith

Answer 20

Harry M. Daugherty

Question 21

Man who lived with Daugherty and did all his dirty work. Committed suicide before getting caught

Answer 21

Jesse Smith

Question 22

Went up in number after WWI, called for government regulation

Answer 22

Labor unions and Strikes

Question 23

Trombone and cornet player, gave Louis Armstrong his start

Answer 23

Joe “King” Oliver

Question 24

If there are more sellers than buyers, the price of the stock goes ______

Answer 24

down

Question 25

Regulates the market, oversees exchanges, protect against fraud, prevent insider trading.

Answer 25

SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission)

Question 26

Putting a down payment on a cost like a car or house and paying the rest in several payments

Answer 26

Buying on credit

Question 27

A group supporting African American rights, saw a rise in membership in the 1920s. Created in 1909 by W.E.B. Du Bois

Answer 27

NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

Question 28

An investment, owning part of a company

Answer 28

Stocks

Question 29

The booming economy after WWI. There were big tariffs to protect American goods

Answer 29

Great Bull Market

Question 30

Famous actor and comedian

Answer 30

Bob Hope

Question 31

The shantytowns unemployed Americans lived in during Hoover's presidency

Answer 31

Hoovervilles

Question 32

Famous baseball player

Answer 32

Babe Ruth

Question 33

Lowered the quota to 2% based on the 1890 census and banned Japanese immigrants

Answer 33

Immigration Act of 1924

Question 34

Started when a black teenager was stoned and drowned in Lake Michigan. The white men responsible were not arrested so riots ensued. 38 people died total, 500 were injured, and over 1,000 lost their homes.

Answer 34

Chicago Riots of 1919

Question 35

Coming up with a price

Answer 35

Price setting

Question 36

Separated investment and commercial banking activities

Answer 36

Glass-Steagall Act

Question 37

Location where stocks are bought and sold

Answer 37

Stock market

Question 38

Using 10% of your own money to purchase a stock, and borrowing up to 90%

Answer 38

Buying on margin

Question 39

Put a limit on how much you could borrow. Went from 90%--\>50%

Answer 39

Margin Limit

Question 40

Provide relief to banks and businesses, not people

Answer 40

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Question 41

WWI Veterans who would receive $1.25/day served overseas and $1.00/day served in the U.S. Were supposed to get paid in 1945 but during the Depression wanted their money ahead of time. Hoover sent out the Washington police and two marchers were killed

Answer 41

Bonus Army

Question 42

Ended strikes, deported possible communists, and put many innocent people in jail. His actions made people afraid to speak out. Later lost credibility when he said May 1st was "Communist Labor Day", but his predictions of massive strikes did not happen.

Answer 42

Attorney General Palmer

Question 43

Gang boss who was eventually sent to Alcatraz for tax evasion

Answer 43

Al Capone

Question 44

Hoover's attempt to help farmers with a tariff. Caused other countries to raise their tariffs and overall did not help

Answer 44

Smoot-Hawley Tariff

Question 45

Famous actress

Answer 45

Clara Bow

Question 46

Famous actor

Answer 46

Rudolph Valentino

Question 47

Banning the legal sale and purchase of alcohol

Answer 47

Prohibition

Question 48

Fear that escalated after WWI. Fear of communism and immigrants who Americans thought would start a violent, bloody revolution

Answer 48

Red Scare

Question 49

Created a quota of 3% based on the 1910 census.

Answer 49

Immigration Act of 1921

Question 50

Harding's Secretary of the Interior, member of the "Ohio Gang" associated with Tea Pot Dome Scandal

Answer 50

Albert B. Fall

Question 51

Stole $200 million from the government by selling property at a fraction of its value. Associated with the Veteran's Bureau

Answer 51

Charles R. Forbes

Question 52

Charleston, Breakaway, Lindy Hop

Answer 52

New dances of the 1920s

Question 53

Italian immigrants who knew little English and were charged with the robbery/murder of two shoe factory workers. One was a fish peddler and the other a shoe salesman, Vanzetti was found with a loaded gun. Executed through the electric chair

Answer 53

Vanzetti and Sacco

Question 54

imitates relaxed style of jazz music with improvisation, some poets liked it, others condemned it

Answer 54

Jazz poetry

Question 55

President after Harding

Answer 55

Calvin Coolidge

Question 56

Famous silent actor

Answer 56

Charlie Chaplin

Question 57

The theory placing multitudes of money in the hands of CEOs and the top of the economy in the hopes that they will pay their workers more and the workers will spend more in the economy

Answer 57

Trickle Down Theory

Question 58

Ku Klux Klan, group against African-Americans and other groups such as women, Jews, and Catholics. Saw a rise in membership in the 1920s

Answer 58

KKK

Question 59

Legalized prohibition

Answer 59

18th Amendment

Question 60

Brought affordable automobiles to the marketplace

Answer 60

Henry Ford

Question 61

Scandal associated with Fall. He gave the rights to oil-rich lands to Mammoth Oil Company and Pan American Petroleum Company

Answer 61

Tea Pot Dome Scandal