USH Unit 5-The Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression (1920-1941) Voc. Quiz (1-25)

Question 1

He restored public confidence in the White House after the scandals of his predecessor's administration.

Accepted Answer

Calvin Coolidge

Question 2

It refers to the buying of securities with cash borrowed from a broker, using other securities as collateral.

Accepted Answer

buying on margin

Question 3

Attempts by the United States Department of Justice to arrest and deport radical leftists, especially anarchists.

Accepted Answer

Palmer Raids

Question 4

He promised the nation a return to "normalcy", in the form of a strong economy, independent of foreign influence.

Accepted Answer

Warren G. Harding

Question 5

Period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art & music and literature flourished

Accepted Answer

Harlem Renaissance

Question 6

Consensus among historians is that his defeat in the 1932 election is caused mainly by his failure to end the depression

Accepted Answer

Herbert Hoover

Question 7

Legislation that raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels during the Great Depression.

Accepted Answer

Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930

Question 8

It limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2%.

Accepted Answer

Immigration Act of 1924

Question 9

He was a British economist whose ideas have fundamentally affected the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics.

Accepted Answer

John Maynard Keynes

Question 10

It was a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1920 to 1923, during the Harding administration.

Accepted Answer

Teapot Dome Scandal

Question 11

US aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

Accepted Answer

Charles Lindbergh

Question 12

It flourished nationwide in the early and mid-1920s, and adopted the same costumes and code words as the first one.

Accepted Answer

Ku Klux Klan

Question 13

It was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II.

Accepted Answer

Great Depression

Question 14

The period (1920-1933) during which the 18th Amendment was in force in the U.S.

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prohibition

Question 15

A place selling alcoholic beverages illegally, especially during Prohibition.

Accepted Answer

speakeasy

Question 16

The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.

Accepted Answer

nativism

Question 17

It set numerical limits on immigration from Europe and the use of a quota system (3%).

Accepted Answer

The Emergency Quota Act of 1921

Question 18

A period in mid-1919 during which white supremacist terrorism and racial riots occurred in more than three dozen cities

Accepted Answer

Red Summer

Question 19

Italian-born anarchists convicted of murdering two men during an armed robbery of a shoe factory in Massachusetts.

Accepted Answer

Sacco and Vanzetti Trial

Question 20

A "new breed" of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts & bobbed their hair.

Accepted Answer

flapper

Question 21

A collection of music publishers and songwriters in New York City that dominated the popular music of the US.

Accepted Answer

Tin Pan Alley

Question 22

A famous American legal case in 1925 in which a high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of teaching evolution.

Accepted Answer

Scopes Trial

Question 23

A period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism/anarchism.

Accepted Answer

The First Red Scare

Question 24

The bio-social movement which advocates practices to improve the genetic composition of a population.

Accepted Answer

Eugenics

Question 25

Someone who makes, sells, or transports alcoholic liquor for sale illegally.

Accepted Answer

bootlegger

USH Unit 5-The Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression (1920-1941) Voc. Quiz (1-25)

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USH Unit 5-The Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression (1920-1941) Voc. Quiz (1-25)

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