Vocabulary of Great Depression

Question 1

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Answer 1

19th amendment

Question 2

The

Law that no hard drinks will be produced, bought, or sold

Answer 2

21st amendment

Question 3

As the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States intensified in the late 1940s and early 1950s, hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. became known as the Red Scare. (Communists were often referred to as “Reds” for their allegiance to the red Soviet flag.)

Answer 3

Red scare

Question 4

a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.

Answer 4

Democracy

Question 5

the generation reaching maturity during and just after World War I, a high proportion of whose men were killed during those years

Answer 5

Lost generation

Question 6

a generation of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.

Answer 6

Flappers

Question 7

The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970. Until 1910, more than 90 percent of the African-American population lived in the American South.

Answer 7

Great migration

Question 8

was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding.

Answer 8

Teapot dome scandal

Question 9

Are people opposed to organized government

Answer 9

Anarchy

Question 10

Ford achieved his goal by building a sturdy and reliable car called ____________nicked named the Tin Lizzie

Answer 10

Model T

Question 11

Started the solo number in music

Answer 11

Louis armstrong

Question 12

was an American artist. She was best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes

Answer 12

Georgia O’Keele

Question 13

Although the focus of the ________trail was the weather or not john scoops had broken the law

Answer 13

Scoops trail

Question 14

In 1928 the United States and 14 other nations signed the __________ an agreement that outlawed war

Answer 14

Keelogg pact

Question 15

__________ encouraged black peoples around the world to celebrate there race

Answer 15

Marcus Garvey

Question 16

was a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. During the time, it was known as the “New Negro Movement”, named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke.

Answer 16

Harlem Reniaissance

Question 17

Used conveyor belts and partly assembled cars from on the group to the next

Answer 17

Moving assembly belts

Question 18

People that leave there own home to live somewhere else

Answer 18

Expatriate

Question 19

A governor of Massachusetts

Answer 19

Coolidge

Question 20

Moving pictures that have sound

Answer 20

Talkies

Question 21

A person that dose plays poems and novels about African life

Answer 21

Langston Hughes

Question 22

A act that ton of African Americans moved across the country and there culture with them

Answer 22

Great migration

Question 23

Emergency quotes act

Answer 23

Limited the total amount of imergents that could enter the United States in 1921

Question 24

An explosion in popularity of jazz music gave the decade there name__________

Answer 24

Jazz age