What was the result of PROHIBITION (anti-alcohol) A) people follow the law B) more organized crime C) Republicans lost the next election
B) more crimes involving bootlegging and speakeasies. unpopular laws are hard to enforce
100
Women who rejected traditional roles for young women during the 1920s were known as .......... They were much different from women BEFORE World War One who were seen as mothers and working in the home.
FLAPPERS
100
What are the characteristics of ECONOMIC DEPRESSIONS ?????
HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT and OVERPRODUCTION and SURPLUS GOODS (unsold products)
100
What did the WAGNER ACT (during the Depression) LEGALIZE for ALL WORKERS
UNIONS and COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
100
What were writers who EXPOSED CORRUPTION during the PROGRESSIVE ERA called ... ???? (UPTON SINCLAIR wrote about the meat packing industry in "THE JUNGLE"
MUCKRAKERS
200
African American art and music during the 1920s was known as.. A) Dust Bowl B) Harlem Renaissance C) The Great Depression
B) Harlem was in New York City
200
What was Henry Ford's contribution to making autos affordable for more Americans .....
ASSEMBLY LINE
200
Who was most AFFECTED by the DUST BOWL ???
FARMERS, they left the Great Plains Farmlands in the middle of the United States
200
What did the NEW DEAL do that helped to end the GREAT DEPRESSION ?
The government created JOBS (alphabet soup)
200
What was the practice of giving friends jobs after getting elected called ????
SPOILS SYSTEM or PATRONAGE
300
The Failure of PROHIBITION showed A) some laws are hard to enforce B) Crime rates DECREASED C) People will always obey any law
A) people wanted to drink alcohol so they did it secretly
300
Name the new type of government set up in the Soviet Union after the RUSSIAN REVOLUTION in 1917 . A) monarchy B) democracy C) communist
(C) COMMUNIST (red), the first leader was VLADIMIR LENIN
300
What caused the STOCK MARKET CRASH of 1929 ????
BUYING STOCKS ON MARGIN and SPECULATION.
300
What did FDR attempt to do to help his NEW DEAL when it was taken in front of the SUPREME COURT ???
COURT PACKING NEW JUSTICES
300
Why did the UNITED STATES need to become a WORLD POWER, we needed ..... (M&M)
NEW MARKETS (to sell our goods) and RAW MATERIALS (like metals to make products to sell)
400
Which trial showed the conflict between CULTURAL VALUES and what should be taught in schools A) Court Packing Trial B) Scopes Trial C) Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping Trial
B) Scopes Trial in Tennessee over teaching Bible Creationism versus Science and Darwin's theory of Evolution in high schools
400
How did Americans feel about BANKS after the STOCK MARKET CRASH, when many of them closed and people last all their savings...
THEY DID NOT TRUST BANKS, until they got FDIC INSURANCE after the BANK HOLIDAY during the NEW DEAL
400
What was a NEGATIVE result of THE NEW DEAL ???
the country had a NATIONAL DEBT by 1940 ($43B)
400
What event signaled the end of the DEPRESSION ???
the start of WORLD WAR TWO in Europe
400
What GOAL for WOMEN was finally achieved with the ratification of the 19th Amendment ???
SUFFRAGE (the right to vote in national elections)
500
Why were anti-immigrant laws passed in the 1920s and during the Great Depression ? A) to welcome new immigrants B) to restrict immigration by using quota limits C) to create more of a melting pot by having new cultures to blend into the American Dream
(B) some felt immigrants were taking American jobs and wanted to keep them out of the United States
500
Who did most Americans BLAME for the STOCK MARKET CRASH and the GREAT DEPRESSION ????????
PRESIDENT HERBERT HOOVER (Hoover everything, like Hoovervilles)
500
American believe, even today, the the government should take care of its needy and poor. What was EXPANDED to include other than just the retired on pensions ???
SOCIAL SECURITY
500
What were Franklin D. Roosevelt's radio messages to Americans during the Depression called ...????
FIRESIDE CHATS
500
What was the result of the SPANISH - AMERICAN WAR for the United States ????
We were now considered a WORLD POWER, we had a powerful navy and had won a war