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Presidents
War and war related
Famous People
1920's / Economy
Captains of Industry/Robber Barons
100
President that was blamed for the economic crash in 1929- mid 1930's. Was crushed by FDR for reelection.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
100
The famous cruise ship that sunk on May 7, 1915; and was one of America's 3 big reasons for going into WW1.
What is the Lusitania?
100
(Combines 2 questions, #8 and #26)Both of these people are famous pilots. The 1st is the first woman to ever fly solo across the Atlantic ocean. The 2nd is the first man who flew across the Atlantic Ocean. He was in New York one day and Paris the next.
Who is Amelia Earhart and who is Charles Lindbergh?
100
Effects that led to the stock market crash of 1929 followed by the Great Depression.
What is the impact of overproduction and credit during the 1920's?
100
Famous Captain of industry in the 1890's for his domination over electricity then joining the steel business.
Who is J. P. Morgan?
200
President in the 1920's that kept his "cool" and economy boomed for about 6 years.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
200
U.S., Spain, Cuba, Quam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.
What are at least 4 of the 6 countries that were involved in the Spanish-American War?
200
Famous baseball player who played for 22 seasons in the Major league from 1914 to 1935.
Who is Babe Ruth?
200
(This one combines two questions, #7 and #16) The laws banning Alcohol and allowing women to vote.
What is the 18th and 19th Amendments.
200
In order to make products cheaper, have more people buy, and to boost the economy (somewhat), this form of manufacturing was created.
What is the purpose of the assembly line
300
President who served before Woodrow Wilson and solved many Antitrust Act cases. He also served as the tenth Chief of Justice for the United States.
Who is William Howard Taft?
300
The U.S. didn't want to get dragged into another war that we weren't apart of just because of our allies were fighting.
What is the reason why the U.S. didn't join the League of Nations?
300
Famous author in the 1900's who wrote the mud cracking novel : The Jungle.
Who is Upton Sinclair (jr.)
300
(Combines 2 questions, #6 and #24) In the 1920's it was hard for these people to make a living due to the poor soil and drought and overproduction made it even harder in 1929. But after 1930's, dust storms hit the Midwest making it even harder for these people to live. This caused them to leave their homes and don the nickname "Okies".
Who are farmers(#24) and where did dust storms hit(#6)?
300
This man was a Famous Captain of Industry and philanthropist. He dominated over the Oil industry and showed people he wasn't a robber baron by giving back to the people.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
400
President who was the "Champion of the Common Man" and that "Happy days are here again!" He saved people during the 1930's and built trust with the people with weekly addresses over the radio.
Who is FDR?
400
A group of Black soldiers who first started as the 10th cavalry unit in the American Indian War and appeared in many other wars such as the Spanish-American war, Philippine-American war, WW1, and WW2.
Who are the Buffalo Soldiers?
400
A Tennessee teacher who was charged on May 5,1925; in the Scopes Trail for Teaching the theory of evolution in school, which was illegal at the time due to the Butler Act.
Who is John T. Scopes?
400
Two famous Italians who were tried for murder and eventually sentenced to death. This case got so large and sent an uproar through out Italy and Europe for their deaths.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
400
(Combines 2 questions, #1 and #2) From the 1880's till the 1930's, two types of journalism formed. One was slightly false but with interesting headlines meant to sell papers. The other form is the whole truth that showed corruption and abuse to the public
What is Yellow Journalism(#1) and Muckrakers(#2)?
500
(3 Questions, combines #5, #13 and #14) This is the form of economics that Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson thought the Government should be doing. But Roosevelt also had a plan that would protect the rich from the poor and the Government wouldn't help the lazy. This would boost the economy because more people could buy products.
What is the Government getting involved (#14), Roosevelt's Square Deal (#13) and why did this help the economy (#5)?
500
We didn't join the League of Nations for this reason and since the Revolutionary War it has been thought of as Americas way of saying "we are separate, don't get us involved."
What is Isolation?
500
Famous General in WW1 who is the only person to be promoted to the highest ranking in United States Army - "General of The Armies."
Who is John J. Pershing?
500
The Negro Movement of the 1920 that started as a social experiment but then became an African American Urban Migration that had many advances in Music and Dance.
What is Harlem Renaissance?
500
This man was a Captain of Industry who was in the steel industry but he had two bigger known roles. One was that he started the wave of Philanthropy that made other millionaires join him. The other was the idea of Vertical Integration where a company owns its suppliers and its buyers.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?