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100
I created the Model T and used the assembly line to mass-produce the automobile.
Henry Ford
100
What was the Red Scare?
The fear that Communists were going to take over the U.S, which led to rising of nativism.
100
This type of music would explode during the '20s, which was directly influenced by African American Culture.
Jazz.
100
Nativism is:
the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
100
Nativism saw an increase after World War I, because of?
Communism or the Red Scare
200
President from 1933-1945. Implemented the New Deal to help with the Great Depression. Only President to ever serve 3 terms.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
200
The New Deal Program would help provide a source of income for senior citizens.
Social Security.
200
The period of African-American cultural creativity in music, art, and literature centered in Harlem, New York.
Harlem Renaissance
200
SEC, what is it?
Not the South Eastern Conference.
Securities and Exchange Commission: A government agency that regulated the stock market.
200
Name Three States that had been impacted by the Dustbowl.
Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico.
300
One of America's Greatest authors of the 20th century. Considered a member of 'the lost generation". Wrote The Great Gatsby.
F-Scott Fitzgerald
300
Define the Teapot Dome Scandal:
The prime example of corruption during Warren G. Harding's Presidency. Secretary of Interior was caught leasing U.S. naval oil reserves in Wyoming to private interests in exchange for bribes.
300
This event led to many Americans losing their jobs and becoming homeless.
The Great Depression
300
Define Dustbowl
Dustbowl: an area of the Great Plains where heavy droughts had dried up the farmland.
300
The 21st Amendment repealed prohibition. What Amendment allowed prohibition in the first place?
18th Amendment
400
A high school teacher was accused of violating Tenessee's Butler Act, with made it unlawful to teach evolution in state-funded schools.
John Scopes
400
What is the New Deal program that insurances your money in a bank. Also, makes it a federal crime to rob a bank.
The FDIC or (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
400
The Great Migration was:
The mass migration of African-Americans to Northern cities. Leaving the segregated south for industrial jobs up north.
400
Hoovervilles are:
Shanty towns built by homeless people during the Great Depresion. They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President during the start of the Great Depression.
400
Flappers are:
Women from the 1920s, who challenged the traditional roles to which society had assigned to them.
500
American Pilot who made the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic.
Charles Lindbergh
500
in 1920 the Amendment gave Women the right to Suffrage.
19th Amendment
500
Name three famous African Americans that we covered during the Gilded Age and their contribution to the Arts.
Louis Armstrong: Music
Duke Ellington: Music
Langston Hughes: Poetry.
500
The "3 Rs" from FDR's New Deal are?
Relief, Recovery, and Reform.
500
Women who began to demand more freedom and assert their independence were known as?
Flappers