Roaring 20's & Great Depression

Question 1

Herbert Hoover

Answer 1

President at the beginning of the Great Depression -Republican

Question 2

Henry Ford

Answer 2

Greatest engineer of the time. Created the assembly line, and made affordability cars for every class.

Question 3

Babe Ruth

Answer 3

Famous baseball player, made more money than the president

Question 4

Charlie Chaplin

Answer 4

Famous actor during the 20’s

Question 5

Marcus Garvey

Answer 5

Controversial figure, black should go back to Africa

Question 6

W.E.B De Bois

Answer 6

Co-founder of the NAACP

Question 7

Jack Dempsey

Answer 7

Heavy Weight champion (boxing)

Question 8

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Answer 8

Democratic President settled the depression down, didn’t really help though

Question 9

George Gershwin

Answer 9

Jazz Composer

Question 10

Mary Pickford

Answer 10

Actress during the 20’s

Question 11

Charles Darwin

Answer 11

Challenged Religion, presented Evolution

Question 12

Louis Armstrong

Answer 12

Jazz Trumpeter

Question 13

Charles Lindberg

Answer 13

Ushers in the age of Aviation- 1st solo transatlantic plane flight

Question 14

Al Chapone

Answer 14

Chicago- Crimes greatly increased in America

Question 15

Charleston (dance)

Answer 15

Dance Craze

Question 16

Great Migration

Answer 16

When blacks moved from south to north

Question 17

Hobos

Answer 17

Migrating workers or homeless vagabond. Left all around the country to find jobs

Question 18

Radio

Answer 18

New source of communication most desired product

Question 19

Automobile

Answer 19

Gave Americans a sense of freedom and independence

Question 20

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 20

“Invisible Empire” violent- Anti-blacks, Jews, Catholic, Immigrants organization

Question 21

Harlem Renaissance

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New Negro movement- celebration of the blacks

Question 22

Red Scare

Answer 22

A fear that there was going to be a communist take over the American government

Question 23

Nativism

Answer 23

Anti-immigrants movement

Question 24

Dust Bowl

Answer 24

Worst drought in American history

Question 25

Seneca Falls Convention

Answer 25

First women’s right Convection

Question 26

Suffragette

Answer 26

Women activists

Question 27

Movies

Answer 27

Motion pictures- 75% of Americans were going once a week

Question 28

Susan B Anthony

Answer 28

Early leader’s of the women’s right

Question 29

Ernest Hemingway

Answer 29

“Farewell to Arms” “to whom the bell tolls”- authors

Question 30

18th Amendment

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Prohibition “Noble Experiment” led by women’s temperance union

Question 31

19th Amendment

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Women’s right to vote

Question 32

Great Depression

Answer 32

Severe worldwide economic crisis

Question 33

Speakeasy

Answer 33

Underground alcohol and dance clubs

Question 34

Emergency Banking Act

Answer 34

National Bank Holiday- closed for 5 days

Question 35

Brain trust

Answer 35

Group of the leading scholars/business- cabinet advisor

Question 36

Hoover Dam

Answer 36

A job part of the Public worker program

Question 37

Jazz

Answer 37

New music style that was created during the period

Question 38

Flapper

Answer 38

“New women” wore short skirts smoked and cranked like men

Question 39

Talkies

Answer 39

1st motion pictures with words

Question 40

Lost Generation

Answer 40

Writers out of World War I

Question 41

Great Gatsby

Answer 41

Book that exposes that money does not buy happiness-F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 42

Bonus Army

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Soldiers form WWI promised money for service (payment in 1948)

Question 43

Hooverville’s

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Shanty towns sprang up-unemployed

Question 44

FDIC

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Federal deposit insurance corporation

Question 45

Fireside Chats

Answer 45

Roosevelt will talk to people over the radio

Question 46

Social Security

Answer 46

Program set aside money savings for people’s retirement

Question 47

Scopes Monkey Trail

Answer 47

God or Evolution taught in school? “Modern Science” or “Traditional” ways

Question 48

World War II

Answer 48

Ended the Great Depression

Question 49

Okie

Answer 49

People that migrated to California

Question 50

New Deal

Answer 50

Federal Economic program to get the country out of depression

Question 51

What are five causes of the Great Depression

Answer 51

1. Unequal distribution of wealth 2. Overpopulation in industry 3. High Tariffs (high taxes of other countries things) 4. Early Credit (spending more that they had) 5. Stock Market Crash

Question 52

Name and Discuss the 3R’s of the New Deal Program

Answer 52

A. Relief- gave help to suffering and unemployed Americans B. Recovery- designed to help,o economy bounce out of depression C. Reform- targeted causes of the depression so it won’t happen again

Question 53

Discuss what the “Cultural Civil War” of the period was fought over

Answer 53

“Old conservative” Christians values and traditions (Rural) were questioned and replaced with new liberal anti-Christian ideas (urban)- Religion was questioned for the 1st time

Question 54

The USA became a “consumer society” for the first time: Explain Why?

Answer 54

The common people were spending money they didn’t have. Using credit

Question 55

Compare and contrast the life of the early 19th century women to the “New Woman” of the 1920’s

Answer 55

- century women-stayed home, cleaned, have kids. We’re slaves to their husbands - new women- were all about feminism, would do men like things (acted like men). Drink, smoke, danced by themselves. Would wear “tramp-like” close