Roaring 20s and Great Depression Units

Question 1

Warren G. Harding

Answer 1

Republican presidential candidate in 1920, he won by a landslide after promising to return the country to normalcy

Question 2

Albert B. Fall

Answer 2

he was the first presidential cabinet member ever to be sent to prison, he was convicted of taking bribes

Question 3

Calvin Coolidge

Answer 3

he was Harding’s Vice President and became President himself in 1923 after Harding suffered a heart attack

Question 4

Disarmament

Answer 4

the reduction or limitation of military armaments

Question 5

Communism

Answer 5

an economic and political system in which the state owns the means of production and a single party rules

Question 6

Anarchist

Answer 6

people who oppose all organized government

Question 7

Prohibition

Answer 7

Period of time in the U.S. history when alcohol was illegal nationwide and enforced by the federal government

Question 8

18th Amendment

Answer 8

ratified in 1919, prohibited the making, selling, or transporting of alcohol in the USA

Question 9

Bootleggers

Answer 9

nickname given to people that smuggled liquor

Question 10

Speakeasies

Answer 10

Illegal taverns or bars that served alcohol

Question 11

21st Amendment

Answer 11

Ratified in 1933, it repealed the 18th amendment and made alcohol legal again in the USA

Question 12

Flapper

Answer 12

nickname given to women in the 1920s who rebelled against traditional ways of thinking and acting. They wore bright makeup and short skirts and also wore their hair in a close-cropped style known as a bob

Question 13

What were some 1920s fads?

Answer 13

The Charleston, Lindy Hop, Black Bottom, The Breakaway, Flagpole sitting, Dance marathon, and Mahjong

Question 14

Who is the famous 1920s baseball player?

Answer 14

Babe Ruth

Question 15

Who is a famous 20s swimmer?

Answer 15

Johnny Weissmuller

Question 16

Who is a famous 20s football player?

Answer 16

Red Grange

Question 17

Who is a 20s golf champion?

Answer 17

Bobby Jones

Question 18

Who is a famous 20s tennis star?

Answer 18

Bill Tilden

Question 19

Who is a famous 20s boxer?

Answer 19

Jack Dempsey

Question 20

Who is a famous 20s pilot that showed optimism by flying across the Atlantic?

Answer 20

Charles Lindbergh

Question 21

Installment buying

Answer 21

buying on credit

Question 22

Bull market

Answer 22

a period of rising stock prices

Question 23

Bear market

Answer 23

a period of falling stock prices

Question 24

Buying on margin

Answer 24

borrowing money in order to buy stocks

Question 25

Herbert Hoover

Answer 25

Republican candidate for president in 1928 who pledged “a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage”

Question 26

Alfred E. Smith

Answer 26

democratic candidate for president in 1928, he was the first Catholic to ever run for president

Question 27

Overproduction

Answer 27

a situation in which the supply of manufactured goods exceeds the demands

Question 28

bankruptcy

Answer 28

financial failure caused by a company’s inability to pay its debts

Question 29

Default

Answer 29

To fail to repay a loan

Question 30

Bonus

Answer 30

an extra payment

Question 31

Public works projects

Answer 31

government funded projects such as roads, bridges, and dams that benefit the public

Question 32

Bonus Army

Answer 32

20,000 WWI veterans who in 1932 marched to Washington D.C. to demand their bonus payments

Question 33

Hoovervilles

Answer 33

Makeshift towns named Hoovervilles because Hoover was blamed for the Great Depression

Question 34

Hoover blankets

Answer 34

newspapers used to sleep under

Question 35

FERA

Answer 35

granted funds to states so they could reopen closed relief agencies

Question 36

CCC

Answer 36

hired city dwellers to work in America’s national parks, forests, wilderness areas and countryside. Millions of young men planted trees, built reservoirs, constructed parks and dug irrigation canals

Question 37

WPA

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put people to work building or repairing public buildings such as schools, post offices, and government offices, workers also paved roads, build bridges and airports, and artists were hired to paint murals in post offices and government building and writers were hired to write stories, state guides and histories

Question 38

NRA

Answer 38

Aimed to keep prices stable while boosting the employment and buying power

Question 39

PWA

Answer 39

granted more than $3 billion to build large public-works projects such as New York’s Lincoln Tunnel, Florida’s Key West Highway, and the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington

Question 40

TVA

Answer 40

built giant dams along the Tennessee River to control flooding, to provide cheap electricity, and to increase jobs in one of the country’s poorest rural areas

Question 41

FDIC

Answer 41

protected bank depositors by guaranteeing individual deposits up to $2,500

Question 42

Payroll tax

Answer 42

A tax that removes money directly from workers’ paychecks

Question 43

Collective bargaining

Answer 43

the right of a union to negotiate wages and benefits for all its members

Question 44

Frances Perkins

Answer 44

FDR’s Secretary of Labor, she was the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet

Question 45

John L. Lewis

Answer 45

he formed the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1935 as an umbrella organization consisting of many other unions

Question 46

Deficit spending

Answer 46

a situation in which the government spends more money than it receives in taxes