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1920s Economy
1920s Society
Great Depression
New Deal
Miscellaneous
100
Who introduced the assembly line to auto making?
Henry Ford
100
What terrorist organization opposed immigrants, Jews, blacks , and Catholics?
Ku Klux Klan
100
What day does Black Tuesday refer to?
October 29, 1929 - the day the Stock Market crashed
100
What term means reduction of armed forces and weapons?
Disarmament
200
Why did American farmers have problems after World War I?
Demand for their crops dropped, so the prices they received dropped
200
What do we call people who opposed organized government?
Anarchists
200
What program provided pensions for the elderly and disabled?
Social Security
200
What did they call people who sold liquor illegally in the 1920s?
Bootleggers
300
What term means buying consumer goods on credit by making a downpayment, then paying the rest of the purchase price in monthly payments?
Installment Buying
300
What laws restricted immigration during the 1920s?
Quota Laws
300
What was the immediate cause of the Dust Bowl?
Severe drought
300
What amendment led to Prohibition of alcohol during the 1920s?
18th Amendment
400
What was the rebirth of black culture during the 1920s called?
Harlem Renaissance
400
What term means a government spends more money than it takes in?
Deficit Spending
500
What two Italian immigrants were convicted and executed for a murder on very little evidence because they were Anarchists and Italian immigrants?
Sacco & Vanzetti
500
Who thought Franklin Roosevelt should expand the New Deal to having the federal government controlling all the banks?
Father Charles Coughlin