Mr. Veazey's 1st Sem Warrior Exam - World War I, Roaring 1920s, Great Depression Vocabulary

Question 1

rising prices

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inflation

Question 2

a radical communist leader who took over Russia in March 1917

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Vladamir Lenin

Question 3

paying for goods by promising to pay small, regular amounts over a period of time

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installment buying

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People who produced, smuggled, or sold alcohol illegally during the era of Prohibition

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bootleggers

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a theory using efficiency experts to find ways to minimize the time needed to complete tasks

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scientific management

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1925 court case in which the issue of teaching evolution in public schools was debated.

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Scopes Trial

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Believed every important moral and scientific answer was in the Bible.

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fundamentalism

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Efforts made by governments to get Mexican immigrants and their children to return to Mexico

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repatriation

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payments for war damages

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reparations

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a person whose moral or religious views forbid participation in war

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Conscientious objector

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1919 amendment imposing the federal prohibition of alcohol.

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18th Amendment

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Farmers that worked for bigger landowners rather than themselves

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tenant farmers

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raised taxes on foreign imports but made farmers unable to sell to other countries

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Hawley-Smoot Tariff

Question 14

line of people waiting for food handouts from charities or public agencies

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bread lines

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a quiet, honest, and frugal person who became President in 1923.

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Calvin Coolidge

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rapid manufacture of large numbers of products

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mass production

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the movement of more than 1.2 million African Americans from South to Northern cities

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The Great Migration

Question 18

English passenger ship sunk by as German U-boat, killing American civilians

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Lusitania

Question 19

Wilson's plan for lasting peace through international openness and cooperation

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14 Points

Question 20

father of modern assembly lines, and inventor credited with 161 patents.

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Henry Ford

Question 21

world organization created after World War I to promote peaceful cooperation between countries

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League of Nations

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President whom favored a laissez-faire approach to business with less regulation by government.

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Herbert Hoover

Question 23

the battlefield between the Allies and the central powers in Western Europe

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Western Front

Question 24

A govt. scandal where a former Navy oil reserve in WY was leased to a private oil company.

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Teapot Dome Scandal

Question 25

a glorification of the military

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Militarism

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the virus, which caused a deadly epidemic in 1918

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influenza

Question 27

The period when the sale of alcohol was prohibited in the US by a constitutional amendment.

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prohibition

Question 28

date of the worst stock-market crash in American history and beginning of the Great Depression

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Black Tuesday

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makeshift shantytowns that sprung up during the Great Depression

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Hoovervilles

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Allowed investors to buy stock for only a fraction of its price and borrow the rest

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buying on margin

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Region of the Great Plains that experienced a drought in 1930 lasting for a decade

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Dust Bowl

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a product goes from worker to worker, with each person doing a single task to make the product.

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assembly line

Question 33

Period of contraction in money supply, a Stock market crash, Bank failures, and unemployment.

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Great Depression

Question 34

A German Submarine

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U-Boat

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law that established a military draft

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Selective Service Act

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A prolonged period of rising stock prices and a general feeling of investor optimism

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bull market

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Dust bowl refugees

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Okies

Question 38

served as the commander of the American Forces on the Western Front in World War I

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John J. Pershing

Question 39

a telegram in which the German foreign minister proposed an alliance with mexico against U.S.

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Zimmerman Note

Mr. Veazey's 1st Sem Warrior Exam - World War I, Roaring 1920s, Great Depression Vocabulary

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Mr. Veazey's 1st Sem Warrior Exam - World War I, Roaring 1920s, Great Depression Vocabulary

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