USH Sem. 1 Final Pt. 5

bought stocks w/out considering company’s earnings & profits, betting market to keep climbing to make quick profit

During Prohibition, people flocked to secret bars called __________________, where they could purchase alcohol.

the biggest drop of the 1929 stock market crash

Supporters of ____________________________ wanted the United States to stay out of entanglements with Europe.

In the Teapot Dome scandal, Albert B. Fall received bribes for

Which of the following was NOT a writer during the Harlem Renaissance?

if they remain too low, banks make risky loans and companies expand too much

One mistake the Federal Reserve Board make early in the Great Depression is that when the Great Depression hit they

Which of the following statements about Andrew Mellon is true?

enormously increased manufacturing efficiency

Walt Disney produced the first feature-length animated film, Animal Crackers, in 1937.

agreement to halt production on warships

companies make more goods than people can buy, causing a decrease in sales

In 1922, the NAACP’s lobbying efforts influenced the House of Representatives to pass

What system of manufacturing adopted by Henry Ford divided operations into simple tasks & cut unnecessary motion?

name given to Hoover's personal philosophy that stressed when ure down you had to pull urself up by ur own bootstraps?

During the Depression, ______slipped into open boxcars on freight trains for a ride

In the early 1920s, what racist group added to its membership by hiring professional promoters?

Who is represented by the donkey?*

Blaming the president for their plight, newly homeless people established shantytowns they called Hoovervilles.

President Herbert Hoover’s response to the Depression led to his landslide victory in the 1932 presidential election.

After World War I, most Americans wanted to avoid future wars by

This famous photo from the Dust Bowl would best be associated with what state?

How did Marcus Garvey’s Negro Nationalism differ from the views of W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington?

Which amendment repealed Prohibition?

attempted to outlaw war

What effect did Dust Bowl refugees have on California?

Though hardly typical of American women, the ____ , a young, unconventional woman, personified women's changing behavior

In the 1920s, buying on margin was a method of buying stocks with mostly borrowed money.

How did the Dawes Plan try to promote peace?

“A man who can quietly make the millions" The excerpt likens Andrew Mellon to a magician for his ability to

leader of the "back to Africa" movement

The new morality of the 1920s placed a high value on

“Okies” were usually farmers who travel to California and begin new lives.

Calvin Coolidge became president when

An unintended effect of the Fordney-McCumber Act (1922) was that

singer who symbolized soul music

During the 1930s, dairy farmers in Georgia blocked highways and

After ______ refused to put more money into circulation, Hoover set up National Credit Corporation to make pool of money

American Gothic was a well-known painting by Grant Wood that pays tribute to Midwesterners.  Is this it?

Which of these is an example of the 1920s rise of nativist ideas?

Who wrote the classic, The Grapes of Wrath, about a family heading from Oklahoma to California?

Henry Ford’s business philosophy was to increase sales by

Warren G. Harding won the presidency by appealing to Americans’ desire to

Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, and the Cotton Club were all part of the

African American arts flourished in the 1920s in what became known as the

write who became a leading voice of the African American experience in the United States

"middle-aged lady in knickers who aired her cat on a pink ribbon"-best describes the writer’s view of Greenwich Village?

payments Germany was required to make as punishment for stating World War One

Membership in the Ku Klux Klan declined in the late 1920s after a series of ___ and power struggles between its leaders.

Whom did the stock market crash affect?

Who took this photograph during the Great Depression?

Who wrote moving novels about war and its aftermath - some consider him to be the greatest American writer of all time?

An innovation instituted by International Harvester in 1926 was

John T. Scopes was put on trial for

Which event publicly debated the subjects of evolution and creationism and their place in education?

when many depositors decide to withdraw their money at one time

first built by the Ford Company in 1908

the result when the government spends more than it collects in taxes

led the troops that dispersed the Bonus Army

composer, pianist, and bandleader whose sound was a blend of improvisation and orchestration

In 1903, the Wright Brothers completed the first successful ___________.

What baseball player also became a national hero?

migrants from the Great Plains heading west in search of better lives

In 1932 Hoover asked Congress to set up the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in order to allow the government to

Which of the following was not a movie from the Great Depression era?

Which of the following had become an accepted part of American life by the 1920s?

The group of World War I veterans who marched on Washington D.C. in 1932 was called the _____________________________ .

Which of the following was the first "talking picture"?

Technological advances let farmers to produce more in 1920s, but higher yields w/out increase in ______=  lower prices

By mid-1920s, others comps (General Motors and Chrysler)competed w/______________ , 1st carmaker to use assembly line

Representatives of eight countries gathered at the Washington Conference in 1921 to discuss

Coolidge believed that part of his job as president was to make sure the government

Henry Ford’s system for making cars increased efficiency by

pilot of the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight

a long period of rising stock prices

The purpose of the Volstead Act was to

stockbroker's demand for immediate repayment of a loan used to buy stock

Hoover wanted state & city govs rather than the federal gov to provide money directly to poor families, known as

making investments in hope that prices will go up, yielding a quick windfall

Louis Armstrong introduced an improvisational, early form of ____ , a style of music influenced by Dixieland and ragtime

whose picture is this?

What effect did the automobile industry of the 1920s have on American society?