Standard 5 1920s - 1930s

Question 1

Another name for the roaring twenties because jazz music was popular

Answer 1

Jazz Age

Question 2

People buying things

Answer 2

Consumer Economy

Question 3

The policy of protecting American manufacturing with high tariffs, and avoiding alliances with foreign governments

Answer 3

Isolationism

Question 4

The practice of buying items by making monthly payments

Answer 4

Installment Plan

Question 5

a new process where workers put one part on an unfinished car as it moved past their work station.

Answer 5

Assembly line

Question 6

The decade of 1920 to 1929 characterized by fast paced social changes

Answer 6

The roaring Twenties

Question 7

practice of making high-risking investments in hopes of obtaining large profits (buy when price is low, sell when price is high)

Answer 7

Speculation

Question 8

Trend that emphasized science and secular values over traditional ideas about religion (evolution, modern social attitudes)

Answer 8

Modernism

Question 9

A law that made the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages illegal.(18th Amendment)

Answer 9

Prohibition

Question 10

a scandal that occurred when a member of president Harding’s cabinet took a bribe to open the navy oil reserves in Teapot Dome , Wyoming, to private companies

Answer 10

Teapot Dome Scandel

Question 11

Using credit to buy stuff

Answer 11

Installment Plan

Question 12

Period of rising stock prices

Answer 12

Bull Market

Question 13

State of Tennessee vs John Scopes, test of the law that banned the teaching of evolution in public schools.

Answer 13

Scopes Monkey Trial

Question 14

system of buying stocks in which a buyer pays a small percentage of the purchase price pays a small percentage of the purchase price while the broker advances the rest

Answer 14

Buying on Margin

Question 15

a white hate group that targeted blacks, Catholics, immigrants, and Jews

Answer 15

KKK

Question 16

A policy of very limited interference in buinesses (maybe even no interference’s)

Answer 16

Laissez-faire

Question 17

A new crime of the 20s that involved bribery for protection

Answer 17

Racketeering

Question 18

anti-immigrant feelings among Americans that led to a distrust of foreigners and quotas on immigration.

Answer 18

Natavist

Question 19

young girls during the 1920’s who rebelled against traditional fashions and morals

Answer 19

Flappers

Question 20

arrangement that limited the number of immigrants who could enter the united states from specific countries

Answer 20

Quota system

Question 21

The making of the same item in large quantities in order to decrease its price

Answer 21

Mass Production

Question 22

(Banks and the stock market in the 20’s were pretty much allowed to do whatever they wanted)

Answer 22

Laissez-faire

Question 23

The first “talkie movie” (movie with sound

Answer 23

“Jazz Singer”

Question 24

2nd highest tariff in U.S history. Crippled the economy and helped create a world wide depression.

Answer 24

Hawley-Smoot tariff

Question 25

October 29, 1929, when stocks prices fell sharply in the Great Crash (marked the beginning of the great depression)

Answer 25

Black Tuesday

Question 26

Shanty run down thrown together housing built by people who had been kicked out of their homes and apartments because of non payment of rent or mortgages. Farmers who lost their homes became transient or migrant workers, but thousands went to Southern California where there were farms jobs

Answer 26

Hooverville

Question 27

Farmers from the dust bowl affected Great Plains that relocated in large numbers to southern California to work farm jobs that were located there

Answer 27

Okies

Question 29

Writer from the “Lost Generation” but became well known for his book “The Grapes of Wrath” about a family from Oklahoma and their struggles during the Great Depression as a migrant farm family moving to California because of the Dust Bowl.

Answer 29

John Steinbeck

Question 30

Environmental crisis in the west, farming methods ,drought,disease,and insects lead to dry conditions in which the wind carried the top soil for hundreds of miles. (many states established soil conservation services during this time, including MS) Many states started a soil conservation program to adress erosion even states that were not directly affected by the dust bowl

Answer 30

dust bowl

Question 31

Pointed out the conflict between Modernism and Traditionalism, Evolution and Creation, Science and Religion.

Answer 31

Scopes Monkey Trial

Question 32

WW1 Veterans who were promised their war pension, but they marched on Washington DC to demand their bonus to be released to them early. Average bonus was 2-5 thousand. Wasn’t supposed to get bonus until 1945.

Answer 32

Bonus Army

Question 33

The exaggerated fear that communists were everywhere in our country.

Answer 33

Red Scare

Question 34

A mass movement of African Americans out of the south and into the north for jobs

Answer 34

Mass Migration

Question 35

Stock prices began to fall and investors start to worry about investments.

Answer 35

Bear Market

Question 36

A person who believes in the traditional moral religions teachings of the church

Answer 36

Fundamentalism