JAZZ AGE

Question 1

cost of living

Answer 1

the cost of purchasing goods and services essential for survival

Question 2

general strike

Answer 2

a strike involving all the workers in a particular region

Question 3

red scare

Answer 3

promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents. In the United States, the First Red Scare was about worker (socialist) revolution and political radicalism.

Question 4

palmer raids

Answer 4

raids by the United States Department of Justice intended to capture, arrest and deport radical leftists, especially anarchists, from the United States. The raids and arrests occurred in November 1919 and January 1920 under the leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer.

Question 5

deported

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expel (a foreigner) from a country, typically on the grounds of illegal status or for having committed a crime.

Question 6

j edgar hoover

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he was given the responsibility of heading a new section of the Justice Department’s Bureau of Investigation called the General Intelligence Division. The G.I.D. was created to gather intelligence on radical groups, and was responsible for organizing the arrest or deportation of alleged seditionists. This led to the controversial “Palmer Raids,

Question 7

supply side economics

Answer 7

lower taxes will boost the economy

Question 8

isolationism

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us policy of staying out of foreign affairs

Question 9

kellog briand pact

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was a 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve “disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them.

Question 10

dawes plan

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take Weimar Germany out of hyperinflationand to return Weimar’s economy to some form of stability.

Question 11

mass production

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production of large quantities of goods using assembly lines and facotires

Question 12

assembyly line

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each person performs an assigned task

Question 13

consumerism

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social and economic order and ideology encourages the acquisition of goods and services in ever-increasing amounts

Question 14

credit

Answer 14

the ability of a customer to obtain goods or services before payment, based on the trust that payment will be made in the future.

Question 15

mass advertising

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Advertising designed to reach large numbers of people, for example through newspapers and television

Question 16

welfare capitalism

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companies enable employees to buy stocks and receive benefits like healthcare

Question 17

open shop

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workplac where workers not required to joina union

Question 18

quiet depression

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agricultural failure of many crops which forced farmers to begin selling what other almost non-profitable crops which they had little of to markets and a lot of them lost a lot of money trying to restore the failed crops.

Question 19

sacco vanzetti

Answer 19

In 1921, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, both Italian-Americans, were convicted of robbery and murder. Although the arguments brought against them were mostly disproven in court, the fact that the two men were known radicals (and that their trial took place during the height of the Red Scare) prejudiced the judge and jury against them. On April 9, 1927, Sacco and Vanzetti’s final appeal was rejected, and the two were sentenced to death.

Question 20

anarchist

Answer 20

a person who seeks to overturn by violence all constituted forms and institutions of society and government

Question 21

emergency quota act

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Annual allowable quotas for each country of origin were calculated at 3 percent of the total number of foreign-born persons from that country recorded in the 1910 United States Census.

Question 22

national origins act

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A law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and virtually excluded Asians.

Question 23

fundamentalism

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a form of a religion, especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture.

Question 24

scopes trial

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trial of john scopes v tennessee, creaitonism vs evolution

Question 25

prohibition

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the banning of alcohol

Question 26

speakeasies

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bars where alcohol was illegally purchased and consumed

Question 27

modern art

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incorporated a diverse range of styles

Question 28

lost generation

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writers that described life as empty and materialistic

Question 29

ashcan realists

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expressed loneliness and isolation

Question 30

mass media

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raiod, movies, newspapers, magazines

Question 31

edith wharton

Answer 31

insider’s view of America’s privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight., the house of mirth

Question 32

ty cobb

Answer 32

“The Georgia Peach”, was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder.

Question 33

george gershwin

Answer 33

significant American composers of the 20th century, known for popular stage and screen numbers as well as classical compositions.

Question 34

charlie chaplin

Answer 34

English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the silent era

Question 35

talkies

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the sound films incorporating synchronized dialogue—known as “talking pictures”, or “talkies”—were exclusively shorts

Question 36

great migration

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movement of african americans from the south to the north

Question 37

langston hughes

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American poet, novelist, and playwright whose African-American themes made him a primary contributor to the Harlem Renaissance

Question 38

zora neal hurston

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their eyes were watching god

Question 39

jazz

Answer 39

a type of music of black American origin characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm, emerging at the beginning of the 20th century. Brass and woodwind instruments and piano are particularly associated with jazz, although guitar and occasionally violin are also used; styles include Dixieland, swing, bebop, and free jazz.

Question 40

blues

Answer 40

melancholic music of black American folk origin, typically in a twelve-bar sequence. It developed in the rural southern US toward the end of the 19th century, finding a wider audience in the 1940s as blacks migrated to the cities. This urban blues gave rise to rhythm and blues and rock and roll.

Question 41

cotton club

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located first in the Harlem neighborhood on 142nd St & Lenox Ave from 1923 to 1935[1] and then for a brief period from 1936 to 1940 in the midtown Theater District. The club operated most notably during America’s Prohibition Era.

Question 42

marcus garvey

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a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL)

Question 43

harlem

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large neighborhood within the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan. Since the 1920s, Harlem has been known as a major African-American residential, cultural and business center

Question 44

duke ellington

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an American composer, pianist and bandleader of jazz orchestrasan American composer, pianist and bandleader of jazz orchestras

Question 45

josephn baker

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an American-born French dancer, singer, and actress who came to be known in various circles as the “Black Pearl,” “Bronze Venus” and even the “Creole Goddess”.

Question 46

louis armstrong

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was an American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer who was one of the pivotal and most influential figures in jazz music

Question 47

bessie smith

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American blues singer. Nicknamed The Empress of the Blues