Vocabulary #1
People
Economy
Vocabulary #2
Vocabulary #3
100
Vocabulary term meaning "Information that a business provides about a product or service to make people want to buy it".
What is advertising?
100
Who created the Model T and used the assembly line to make it more affordable?
Who is Henry Ford?
100
After WWI the economy got stronger. What made life easier for people?
What is consumer goods? (examples: vacuum cleaners, washing machines, sewing machines, radios)
100
Vocabulary term meaning "Of or like the country; away from the city".
What is rural?
100
Vocabulary term meaning "A product made for personal use".
What is consumer good?
200
Vocabulary term meaning "Taking home a product after paying only part of a price and then making monthly payments until the product is paid for".
What is installment buying?
200
Who delivered mail by airplane and flew from New York to Paris, France alone without making any stops?
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
200
Why weren't farmers able to pay back their loans?
Because the Allied countries no longer needed to buy crops that were raised in the U.S.
200
Vocabulary term meaning "A community or neighborhood that lies outside a city".
What is suburb?
200
Vocabulary term meaning "An industry that is run to make a profit".
What is commercial industry?
300
Vocabulary term meaning "The fee a borrower pays to a lender for the use of money".
What is interest?
300
Who was the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic (from Newfoundland in Canada to Ireland)?
Who is Amelia Earhart?
300
What changed from stating facts about the product to telling people how good they would feel when they bought it?
What is advertising?
300
Vocabulary term meaning "A time of great interest and activity in the arts".
What is renaissance?
300
Vocabulary term meaning "Of or like a city".
What is urban?
400
Vocabulary term meaning "To travel back and forth to work".
What is commute?
400
As people listened to the radio, who did they hear hit his sixtieth home run in 1927?
Who is Babe Ruth?
400
What made it possible for people to live outside the city in suburbs and then drive to work in the city?
What are automobiles?
400
Vocabulary term meaning "A music style influenced by the music of West Africa as well as by spirituals and blues".
What is jazz?
400
Vocabulary term meaning "A place where people buy and sell shares of a company or business".
What is stock market?
500
Vocabulary term meaning "A share of a business or company".
What is stock?
500
Who was one of Jazz's earliest performers? (His music was popular with both black and white Americans)
Who is Louis Armstrong?
500
During prohibition, even though alcohol was illegal, many went to secret bars known as ?
What is speakeasies?
500
The renaissance was also known as what?
What is the Jazz Age?
500
Vocabulary term meaning "A person who designs buildings".
What is architect?
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