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Hodgepodge
100
What is the name of the term where a nation at war returns to a state of peace?
What is demobilization
100
Which of the following Presidents called for a return to normalcy after WW I?
A. John F. Kennedy
B. Warren G. Harding
C. Teddy Roosevelt
D. William Howard Taft
Who is B. Warren G. Harding
100
What is the 18th Amendment?
What is Prohibition (The Volstead Act)
100
What was the name of the movement of two million Southern blacks from the south to Northern cities?
What is the "Great Migration"
100
What happened on October29.1929 known as "Black Tuesday"?
What is the stock market crashed
100
What was the name of the serious droughts and soil erosion in the 1930's that caused serious damage to much of the farmland on the Great Plains?
What is the Dust Bowl
200
True or False -Due to men returning home from the war, and factories not producing war materials combined with the Spanish Flu there was a short depression in the U.S. between 1920-1921
What is true
200
The Fordney -McCumber Act proposed a 38.5% tax on imports. The 1920's saw some of the highest ________ in U.S. history and was one of the causes of the Great Depression.
What is tariffs
200
What new social medium produced greats like Charley Chaplin and Mary Pickford and where were these produced?
What is motion picture and Hollywood
200
What is the name of the rebirth of African American culture that produced jazz and blues and famous writers such as Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston?
What is the "Harlem Renaissance"
200
What was the name of President Hoovers response to the Great Depression where he said that it's up to the American people to "pull up their bootstraps" to get out the Great Depression?
What is rugged individualism
200
What did President Roosevelt declare to prevent people from withdrawing money from their banks?
What is the "Bank Holiday"
300
What are the names of the two Italian immigrants that were admitted anarchists who were executed on flimsy evidence for murders during a payroll robbery?
Who is Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
300
What was put in place during the 1920's to limit the number of immigrants coming to the U.S. from Southeastern Europe?
What is the quota system
300
What was the Scopes "Monkey" Trial about?
What is teaching of evolution in public schools
300
What was the name for women in the 1920's who cut their hair, wore short dresses and went out in public sometimes smoking and drinking?
What is "flappers"
300
What was the name President Roosevelts program for relief, recovery, reform?
What is the New Deal
300
Presidents Roosevelt's court__________ scheme is when he tried to replace Supreme Court justices before the end of their terms.
What is packing
400
What event is this political cartoon representing?
What is the first Red Scare
400
What was the name of the social movement during the 1920's that said that the words in the Bible should be taken literally?
What is Fundamentalism
400
What famous African American said that A.A. should put up with Jim Crow Laws and learn a trade skill to show their economic value to the U.S. and also founded Tuskegee Institute?
Who is Booker T. Washington
400
What was the name of the severe economic downturn from 1929-1941 in the United States?
What is the Great Depression
400
What was the name of the group of WW I veterans that descended upon Washington D.C. to demand they get their bonus earlier than promised by the U.S. government?
What is the Bonus Expeditionary Force (Bonus Army)
400
What New Deal program was established that insured people's money in the banks?
What is the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
500
What were the names of the raids where suspected communists, socialists and anarchist were arrested, and many were deported?
What is the Palmer Raids
500
True or False-The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the Washington Naval Conference and the Four-Power treaty were all attempts by the U.S. to avoid future wars.
What is true
500
What famous African American said A.A. should not put up with Jim Crow Laws and said there should be immediate equality and that A.A. can receive higher education (talented tenth)?
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois
500
____________ is when a person thinks a stock is going to rise and if that person can't afford to buy the stock, they had an option to buy on ________.
What is speculation and margin
500
What was the name of the Second New deal program that provided retirement benefits and benefits for the disabled and orphans?
What is Social Security
500
What New deal program established dams throughout the southern states to provide electricity, control flooding and bring more economic opportunity in the area?
What is the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)