US II 17 & 18 The Jazz Age & Beginning of the Great Depression

Question 1

What are "public works"?

Accepted Answer

government-funded building projects

Question 2

What did it mean to purchase stocks on "margin"?

Accepted Answer

Investors would pay a small percentage of the cost and borrow the rest.

Question 3

He wrote/composed "It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got That Swing," and "Take the A Train" with partner Irving Mills

Accepted Answer

Duke Ellington

Question 4

Many African Americans joined the______________ from the rural South to industrial cities in the North.

Accepted Answer

Great Migration

Question 5

What caused the "Dust Bowl"?

Accepted Answer

all of these choices

Question 6

________ received wide acclaim for his performances in Emperor Jones and the musical Show Boat.

Accepted Answer

Paul Robeson

Question 7

Creditors foreclosed on nearly ______________ farms between 1930 and 1934.

Accepted Answer

one million

Question 8

1920s movement that believed the Christian Bible was literally true and denied evolution was

Accepted Answer

the Fundamentalist Movement

Question 9

This jazz great songs included "Hello, Dolly," and "What a Wonderful World."

Accepted Answer

Louis Armstrong

Question 10

By the early 1930s, _______________ was Harlem’s most famous lesbian figure.

Accepted Answer

Gladys Bentley

Question 11

A songwriter, conductor, and pianist, and the creator of big band jazz.

Accepted Answer

Duke Ellington

Question 12

World War I veterans who came to Washington DC looking for their pension payments early were known as the _____________.

Accepted Answer

Bonus Army

Question 13

This technological advancement in industry allowed for shorter workweeks for factory workers.

Accepted Answer

mass production

Question 14

_______ captured the imagination of millions of African Americans with his “Negro Nationalism.”

Accepted Answer

Marcus Garvey

Question 15

The idea that people depend on themselves and not expect to need help from others

Accepted Answer

“Rugged Individualism”

Question 16

________________ wrote moving novels about war and its aftermath, such as A Farewell to Arms

Accepted Answer

Ernest Hemingway

Question 17

What is a "bull market"?

Accepted Answer

A long period of rising stock prices

Question 18

Young men and boys who rode railways from one place to another in search of a better life were called _______.

Accepted Answer

hoboes

Question 19

What were shantytowns?

Accepted Answer

communities of homeless people who lived on public land

Question 20

She was the "Empress of the Blues," whose work included "St. Louis Blues."

Accepted Answer

Bessie Smith

Question 21

Which of the following was a root cause of the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

uneven distribution of income

Question 22

Taxes on foreign goods coming into the country

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Tariffs

Question 23

These Americans were often let go from factory positions when servicemen returned from World War I.

Accepted Answer

African-Americans

Question 24

Songwriter _______________'s famous songs include “Puttin’ on the Ritz” and “White Christmas.”

Accepted Answer

Irving Berlin

Question 25

What was President Hoover's view of federal relief programs at the beginning of the Depression?

Accepted Answer

He did not think it was the federal government's role.

Question 26

________________ promised “a return to normalcy” following the Great War.

Accepted Answer

Warren G. Harding

Question 27

Who were "Okies"?

Accepted Answer

farmers from Oklahoma who lost their land and headed west

Question 28

What fact about the Sacco-Vanzetti case prejudiced the jury into convicting them for murder?

Accepted Answer

Sacco and Vanzetti were immigrant anarchists.

Question 29

He mentored many gay African-American artists including Countee Cullen, Richard Bruce Nugent, and Langston Hughes.

Accepted Answer

Alain Locke

Question 30

Why did Henry Ford double his factory workers' pay while decreasing their hours?

Accepted Answer

To create loyalty and counteract unionization

Question 31

Government-financed building projects which build up infrastructure and provides employment for construction workers

Accepted Answer

Public Works

Question 32

A national policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs

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Isolationism

Question 33

October 29, 1929 known as _____________ saw the complete collapse of the New York Stock Exchange

Accepted Answer

Black Tuesday

Question 34

Women who wore makeup, drank prohibited liquor, and smoked cigarettes in the 1920s were called

Accepted Answer

flappers

Question 35

Shantytowns and ragged villages of ramshackle structures where many homeless lived on the outskirts of major cities

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Hoovervilles

Question 36

1928, the US and 14 other nations signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, agreeing to

Accepted Answer

Abandon war and to settle all disputes by peaceful means.

Question 37

Much of the turmoil in the U.S. in the early 1920s was blamed on ______________.

Accepted Answer

Immigrants

Question 38

What was a breadline?

Accepted Answer

a long line of people waiting for free food

Question 39

The President of the United States at the beginning of the Great Depression.

Accepted Answer

Herbert Hoover

Question 40

The first important writer of the Harlem Renaissance ____________ wrote Harlem Shadows in 1922.

Accepted Answer

Claude McKay

Question 41

When too many people attempt to withdraw money from a bank in fear that the bank will collapse

Accepted Answer

bank run

Question 42

The belief that one&#x27;s homeland needs to be protected from immigrants is called _______.

Accepted Answer

Nativism

Question 43

She was the "Mother of Blues."

Accepted Answer

Ma Rainey

Question 44

Fans idolized boxer _______________ who was world heavyweight champion from 1919 until 1926.

Accepted Answer

Jack Dempsey

Question 45

Albert B. Fall, allowed private interests to lease lands containing U.S. Navy oil reserves at

Accepted Answer

Teapot Dome, Wyoming

Question 46

_______ was the most famous nightclub in Harlem in which many musical greats got their start.

Accepted Answer

The Cotton Club

Question 47

What consumer product changed American society more than any other?

Accepted Answer

Automobile

Question 48

Poor kid from New Orleans who learned to play cornet/trumpet at a "waif's home" after being arrested

Accepted Answer

Louis Armstrong

Question 49

Anger against immigrants helped lead to the rise of which previously defunct group?

Accepted Answer

the Ku Klux Klan

Question 50

Among 1920s playwrights, ____________ was probably the most innovative.

Accepted Answer

Eugene O’Neill

Question 51

He has been called the "Father of the Harlem Renaissance."

Accepted Answer

Alain Locke

Question 52

She was a famous singer, dancer, and spy for the French Resistance during World War II.

Accepted Answer

Josephine Baker

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