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What is fundamentalism?
What were the Palmer Raids?
Topic 5.4-5.8 The 1920s
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What were the Palmer Raids?
Terrorism which took place in the early 1900s.
A series of raids against suspected radicals & communists.
raiding of the Palmers neighborhood in search for refugees.
Raiding of businesses & factories.
2
What is fundamentalism?
When a person yells at you.
When you're unhappy.
A loose belief of religion.
Religion that upholds a strict interpretation of scripture.
3
What is a key distinction between socialism and communism?
Communism is against government intervention
Only socialism supports abolishing private property
Socialism is against government intervention
Only communism supports abolishing private property.
4
What was a bootlegger?
a alcohol seller
soda maker
alcohol producer and seller
boot maker
5
Who was the automobile innovator that helped aid the booming economy of the 1920s?
John Scopes
Henry Ford
Charlie Chaplin
Warren G. Harding
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What did the 18th amendment do?
set a term limit for the president
made the consumption,production, and sell of alcohol illegal
made the production and sell of alcohol legal again
gave women the right to vote
7
Who did Herbert Hoover believe was responsible for public relief programs?
State governments
National governments
Unemployment Services
Non-profit organizations
8
What's a bank run?
When people are selling shares on the stock market.
When many people withdraw their money from a bank at once.
When people are trying to collect Justin Bieber autographs
When people run to a bank
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Which group supported the Prohibition movement?
Native-born Protestants
Rural South and West.
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Anti-Saloon League
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What things improved with the booming economy?
None of the above
Stock prices rose rapidly
All of the above
Wages went up
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What occurred because of the booming economy of the Roaring 20s?
inflation
bank runs
WWII
overspeculation
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The 18th amendment is also known as ...
National Origins Act
Prohibition
Laissez-Faire
Women's right to vote
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Who experienced difficult years during the 20s and 30s?
bootleggers
legislators
farmers
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Define the Lost Generation
A group of writers who critized US values through writing
A group of athletes who critized US values through sports
A group of musicians who critized US values through song
People who liked to boss people around for the fun of it
15
Which of the following best describes President Warren G Harding legacy?
He admitted to not understanding issues that plagued US
all of the above
Considered one of our least successful presidents
His administration is marked with scandal and corruption
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What did the Jazz Age influence?
Fashion
Music
Food
Walking
17
What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Albert Fall sold oil meant for the navy to private oilmen
Albert Fall used tax payers money to buy alcohol
Albert Fall resold automobiles with engine problems for $$$
Albert Fall sold cheap teapots for high prices and got $$$
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What changed among women in the 1920s?
Shorter dresses
Shorter haircuts
More liberated attitudes
All of the above
19
In 1920, American voters elected Warren G. Harding who promised:
a return to normalcy
sweeping economic and social change
To increase the US role in world affairs
to continue the policies of Woodrow Wilson
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Who defended John Scopes in the Scopes Monkey Trial?
Fred Phelps
Clarence Darrow
Jim Thorpe
Walt Disney
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What did presidents of the 1920s promote?
government regulation of banks
business
farming
direct aid to the poor
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What group did not benefit from the booming economy of the 20s?
businessmen
farmers
bootleggers
bankers
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What event did the Dust Bowl increase the effects of?
Coal productions
Meme Production
The Great Depression
Spread of the American Dream
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what was a speakeasie?
a popular bar in town
a store in town that sold alcohol
bar that was kept as a secret from society
idk
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What were flappers?
A moral guardian who reinforced morals and good behaviour.
A young woman who behaved with good old fashioned decorum.
A mobster who wore a penguin suit and smoked cigars.
A fashionable woman who partied and flouted conventions.
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When FDR used the radio to keep people updated and give them hope during the Great Depression.
The President Hour
Family Radio Time
Fireside Chats
Emergency Broadcast Sysytem
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What was a Hooverville?
A store for the homeless
A rich neighborhood
A hotel
Shanty town built by homeless people
28
Calvin Coolidge said…
Hope
America's business is business
Lets go back to the future
vote for Harding
29
What are anarchists?
political radicals opposed to Social Darwinism
political radicals opposed to unfair labor
political radicals opposed to any form of government
political radicals opposed to monopolies and trusts
30
What did they call the day of stock market crash
Black Tuesday
Dead stock day
Black Friday
Twisted Tuesday
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What was the red scare?
Hysteria over the perceived threat posed by communists
The domino effect
A time when people were scared of the color red
The fear of communism in America
32
Who was NOT targeted during the Palmer raids?
Communist
Socialists
Monarchists
Anarchists
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Helped prosecute John Scopes at the "Monkey Trial"
William Jennings Bryan
Clarence Darrow
Langston Hughes
Marcus Garvey
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Herbert Hoover was opposed to what type of aid?
Trickle-down
Direct
Reaganomics
Indirect
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What is buying on credit?
Getting a refund
Buy now & pay later with interest
Just buying something
Using a credit card
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The Lost Generation were...
A back to Europe movement
The belief that reason is supreme, not emotions
Authors who were disillusioned with society
Authors who believed people must be one with nature
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What were the
causes
of Dust Bowl?
farmers lost their income
livestock died
crops were destroyed
drought, erosion, and poor farming techniques
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Prohibition ___________________
was very popular
was easy to enforce
was impossible to enforce and was repealed
worked fine and everybody followed the law
39
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
A movement that developed African American culture
The end to the New Negro
A movement that occured during the 1930's
A city in New York
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This illustrated the division between urban modernist views, and rural fundamentalist values
Harlem Renaissance
Scopes Trial
National Origins Act
Quota system
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What business was booming in the 1920s
Automobile
Potato
Steel
Brass
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The Stock Market crash in 1929 was largely caused by...
All of these.
the fact that the banks failed.
the fact that people spent too much money.
the fact that people could not repay their debts.
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What did Franklin D Roosevelt promise?
The New Deal
The Old Day
The Old Deal
The New Day
44
The booming stock market in the 1920s
made most Americans wealthy
discouraged people from borrowing money to buy stocks
encouraged people to borrow money to buy stocks
ended unemployment in the United States
45
How is communism different from capitalism?
Citizens have few choices in personal goods, all decisions made by the govt
Citizens are conquered by an outside influence.
Citizens are ruled by a tsar.
Communism spreads from China and Mongolia
46
What was John T. Scopes accused of?
saying Darwinian evolution is the explanation to human life
teaching Darwinian evolution
all of the above
encouraging Darwinian evolution
47
What was the major debate that ensued among Americans because of the Scopes Monkey Trial?
Should Children be Allowed Near Monkeys?
Are Monkeys a Danger to Future Generations?
Should Modern Sciences be Taught in Schools?
Modernist and Fundamentalist Controversy
48
Who marched in the Bonus Army?
The President and his wife.
Immigrants
Farmers
WW1 veterans
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What did Herbert Hoover and Calvin Coolidge have in common?
Both presidents signed peace treaties
Both were Republican pro-business presidents
Both passed laws that benefited workers
Both were liberal democratic presidents
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Who
influenced the creation of the 18th Amendment?
communists
The KKK
women
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Flappers shocked conservatives by...
having short hair and wearing makeup.
dancing strangely.
having very long hair.
