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Roaring 20's and Great Depression
Roaring 20's and Great Depression
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Why were 'flappers' so different from the women of the early 1900's?
They brought there conservative vaules to the American women
They were not different at all
They did not work, unlike women during WWI
They wore short skirts, drank, smoked, and dated casually
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A person who smuggled illegal alcohol into the US from Canada, Cuba or the West Indies?
Gangster
Bootlegger
FBI Agent
Treasury Agent
3
Protestant movement grounded in literal interpretation of the Bible?
Lutheranism
Orthodoxy
Fundementalism
Catholicism
4
Arrangement in which consumers agreed to buy now and pay later for a purchase?
Debit
PayPal
Buying on Credit
Credit Cards
5
What inference can you make about Prohibition and Organized Crime?
Prohibition ended Organized Crime
The mob ended Prohibition
Organized crime flourished during Prohibition
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Who was the famous 1920's painter who painted the American Southwest?
Georgia O'Keeffe
El Greco
Salvador Dali
Pablo Picasso
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How did life for the average women change during the 1920's?
Women began to break the double standards
Women had the right to vote
All of the above
Women were working and making their own money
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What invention brought sports, entertainment, and advertising to every American household?
Radio
TV
Newspaper
Twitter
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What did the defeat of the Bonus Army do for Hoover's presidency and legacy?
It ensured his defeat at the hands of FDR
It helped him win his re-election
It cemeted his legecy as the best president in history
It made him very popular amoung the American people
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Illegal drinking establishment (bars) during the depression?
Rum Runner
Tavern
Speakeasy
Bar
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What was the outcome of the Scopes Monkey Trial?
The trial led to a change in science education
All the above
Scopes was found guilty
Scopes was fined $100
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What were shantytowns also referred to as?
Hoovervilles
Slums
Soweto
Favelas
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What was the Eighteenth Amendment?
Free Speech
Abolished Slavery
Prohibition
Women's Suffrage
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What is the significance of October 29th, 1929?
Pirates win the world series
World War II begins
Stock market crash
World War I ends
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What caused speakeasys to be so popular during the Depression?
Despair due to economic conditions
World War II
Boredom
Entertainment
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Why was F. Scott Fitzgerald's writing style so different from many other writers of the day?
His writing was the same as other authors
His writing chronicled World War I
His writing exposed the excess and materialism of the era
He wrote about the good side of the 1920's
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The area of New York City that was the center of the Jazz world?
Bronx
Queens
Brooklyn
Harlem
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Cash payments & food supplied by gov't and local charities that provided relief during the GD?
Cash assistance
WIC
Direct Relief
Government Cheese
19
Drought, high wind, and lack of crop rotation led to this natural disaster through the US?
Tornado
Dust Bowl
Great Chicago Fire
Hurricane Katrina
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What were some ways the Federal Government tried to provide relief to suffering families?
Bread lines
Direct relief
Soup kitchens
All of the above
21
Name the movement of the American population from rural areas to cities?
Gentrification
Ruralization
Urbanization
Urban sprawl
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Who was John T. Scopes?
PM of the UK
POTUS
Lawyer
Bio teacher charged with teaching evolution
23
What was the Great Migration?
Movement of African Americans from the South to the North
Movement of African Americans from the North to the South
Bird migration
Movement of African Americans back to Africa
24
What was an outcome of General MacArthur's use of force on the Bonus Army?
All the protesters were killed by the Army
The American people lost support for President Hoover
General MacArthur was courtmartialed
Bonus Army received thier bonuses
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Who were the 10,000 to 20,000 World War I veterans who marched on Washington, DC?
US Marines
Bread Lines
Hoovervilles
Bonus Army
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Why was the mass availability of the radio significant to the American people?
It brought the world to America's living room
It created a shared experience for Americans
All of the above
It allowed you to listen to live sporting events
27
Investors paid a small percentage of a stock's price as a down payment and borrowed the rest?
Capital Gain
Buying on Margin
SP500
NSADAQ
28
What was the outcome of the mass increase in buying on credit in America?
Banks defaulting
False spending power
Default on payments to banks
All of the above
29
Minnesota native pilot who made the first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight?
John Boyd
Paul Tibbets
Amelia Earhart
Charles Lindbergh
30
A method of production, invented by Henry Ford, that revolutionized automobile production?
Flow production
Assembly line
Large batch production
Mass production
31
Who was the Harlem Renaissance's most well-known poet?
Louis Armstrong
Langston Hughes
W.E.B DuBois
Claude McKay
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Why did many African American families flee the poor, rural South for the more urban North?
All of the above
There was more work available in the North
To escape the Jim Crow South
For more equal opportunities
33
What inference can you make about the life of a 1920's housewife?
Inventions simplified their lives
They were treated poorly
They took on the role of men at work
They relied on their husbands for support
34
The first true American form of music, a fusion of Europen, African, and American sound?
Hip Hop
Heavy Metal
Jazz
Country
35
What facts show that buy stocks on Speculation was a bad idea?
Prices of stocks increased
Companies and share holders made money
Ignoring the risks helped expedite the stock market crash
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Why were athletes, such as Jim Braddock and Babe Ruth, so popular during the 1920's?
The Yankee's won the world series
Television made them popular
Radio brought them into American's homes
They both played for the Pirates
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Who said "We in America are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before" in 1928
Herbert Hoover
Alfred Smith
Woodrow Wilson
FDR
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Period from 1929-1941 in which the economy was in severe decline and millions out of work?
Inflation
Baby Boomers
Great Depression
Reaganomics
39
Who was John Scopes's ACLU Lawyer?
Clarence Darrow
Robert Kardashian
George Washington
Johnny Cochran
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What invention, bought by nearly every homeowner, made life easier in the 1920's?
iPhone
Refrigerator
Microwave
Car
