Vocabulary
Unfair treatment based on gender, race, or religious belief.
What is: discrimination
What did many Americans believe when World War I broke out?
What is: That the United States should remain neutral.
What was a major cause of the Great Depression?
What is: Falling stock prices led to a stock market crash.
What effect did World War II have on Indiana's economy?
What is: Steel mills and oil refineries went back into full production.
What change did many Hoosiers want to see in the 1950's?
What is: Integration
What is: suffrage
How did World War I affect the movement of people in Indiana?
What is: Many African Americans moved from the South to Indiana.
What was the main purpose of the New Deal?
What is: To help the country recover from the Great Depression.
What are three ways in which Indiana citizens participated in World War II?
What is: Both men and women served in the armed forces. The people who stayed at home bought war bonds and stamps. Many people grew Victory Gardens so that more food could be sent to the people fighting overseas.
Which war was fought between the Soviet Union and the United States in the last half of the twentieth century?
What is: the Cold War
A time of unemployment when business activity is slow.
What is: depression
How did Hoosier women participate in World War I?
What is: They sewed clothing and blankets.
What was the relationship between the failure of the stock market and rising unemployment during the Great Depression.
What is: When the stock market failed, many people lost their life savings. They didn't have any money, so they didn't buy goods. The factories that made the goods had to cut jobs to save money and stay in business.
Which program limited the amount of food Americans could purchase during World War II?
What is: Rationing
What is: African Americans were often given low-paying jobs, so when they moved into cities, they couldn't afford to live in the better neighborhoods that white people lived in. Many white people who had more money left ot live in the suburbs. The lack of fair and equal opportunities for African Americans led to tensions and protests.
To approve
What is: ratify
How did many Hoosier use their earnings during the Roaring Twenties?
What is: They bought cars and home appliances.
About how much did unemployment drop between 1933 and 1937?
What is: about 11 percent
What is: Many Germans were angry and some followed Adolf Hitler. Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbor, an American naval base in Hawaii.
Describe the actions that Americans took during the Vietnam War, and explain why their results were so important.
What is: Many people objected to the war, so they held protests, carried signs, and wrote letters to their representatives in Congress, demanding that the United States bring the troops home. In 1973, the United States stopped fighting in Southeast Asia. The actions showed that people in a democratic system can bring about important changes.
The forced separation of different races is known as.
What is: segregation
Cause: Women earn the right to vote....
What is Effects: People running for election have to win support of both men and women and women run for and are elected to office.
How did many people respond to prosperity during the 1920's?
What is: They added electricity and indoor plumbing to their homes.
What did the soldiers do after World War II ended?
What is: They took jobs in factories, returned to farms, or established new businesses. Some went to college with the help of the GI Bill, a government education program.
Which of the following people wrote poetry about nature in Indiana?
What is: James Whitcomb Riley