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social studies
7th grade Social Studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what was prohibition? | a ban on the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor in the US. |
| what were the negative effects of prohibiton? | -gave a huge boost to organized crime. -underminded respect for the law. |
| who were bootleggers? | people who mad eor smuggled illegal liquor. |
| what is a fad? | an activity or fation that is taken up with great passion for a short time. |
| what was a flapper? | young woman who rebelled against traditional ways of thinking and acting. |
| what is jazz? | combined west African rythems, African American work songs, spirituals, and European harmonies. |
| what was the Harlem Renaissance? | artistic movement in the 1920s by African American musitions, artists, and writers. |
| who was Charles Lindbergh? | one of the great heros of the 1920s who made the first solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. |
| what did company unions do? | made matters worse because they were controlled by managment. |
| what is sabotage? | secret destruction of property or influence with work. |
| who is an anarchist? | person who opposes organized government. |
| what was the Red Scare? | fear of communism, anarchists, and foreigners. many Americans found that labor strikes signaled the start of a communist revolution. |
| what is nativism? | anti-foreign feeling. |
| what was the Scopes Trial? | John Scopes was fined and convicted for teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution in public schools. |
| why was the Ku Klux Klan revived? | in response to rear of change. the klan wanted to preserve the US for white, native born protestants. |
| why did the government not notice an economic slowdown in the mid 1920s? | because they did not keep detailed statistics. |
| what does it mean it buy stock on margin? | paid for only a part of the cost of the stock and borrowed the rest from stock borkers. |
| what does bankrupt mean? | unable to pay their debts. |
| what was the human cost of the Great Depression? | -pressures caused some families to split up. -many people lost their homes. -one in every four workers was jobless. |
| what were the conditions fort those who did work durring the Great Depression? | -work for fewer hours. -leave families to find work. -take pay cuts. |
| what were public works? | projects bui;t byt the government for public use. helped supply jobs. |
| what were three promises FDR made in his campaighn speeches? | help to: the jobless, the elderly, poor farmers |
| what were the Hundred Days? | the first three months of Roosevelt's administration in which many laws to help end the Depression were passed. |
| what is Truth-In-Secuities Act? | designed to end the risky buying and selling of stocks. |
| what is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)? | insured savings accounts in banks. |
| what is a pension? | a sum of money paid to people on a regular basis after they retire. |
| what did the National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) do? | protected workers from unfair managment prectices and auaranteed their right to collecting burgaining. |
| give three details about the Sicial Securities Act? | -set up a pension proram for older people. -established unemployment insurance. -provided support for dependent children and people with disabilities. |
| what is deficit spending? | the government spends more money than it takes in. |
| what is national debt? | the total sum of money the government owes. |
| what was the Dust Bowl? | reagion in the Central Great Planes that was hit by a severe drought durring the 1930s. |
| what were the causes of the Dust Bowl? | -high winds. -overgrazed pastures. -drought. |
| what is a totalitarian state? | a single party controls the government and every aspect of pepoles lives therefore oppressing individual freedom. |
| what is fascism? | political system that is rooted in militarism, extreme nationalism, and blind loyalty to the state. |
| what is aggression? | warelike act by one country against another without just cause. |
| what does Nazi stand for? | National Socialist German Workers Party. |
| what is a scapegoat? | a person or group on whom others blame for their problems. |
| who did Hitler use as a scapegoat and why? | he blamed the loss of world war 1 on Jews. |
| what were consentration camps? | prizon camps for civilazatons who are concidered enemies of the state. |
| what happened at the Munich Conference? | Hitler promised Germany would seek no further territory. |
| what is appeasemant? | the practice of giving in to aggression to avoid war. |
| who practiced appeasement? | the British and the French practiced appeasement to stop war from breaking out. |
| what was the Nazi-Soviet Pact? | Hitler and Stalin agreed not to attack each other. |
| who were the Axis powere in WW2? | -Italy -Japan -Germany -six other nations |
| who were the Allies during WW2? | -Britain -France -Soviet Union -United States -China -45 other countries |
| who established the Atlantic Charter and why? | British and Americans established it to set goals of the post war world. |
| why did congress declare war on Japan? | December 7, 1941 Japan launches a supprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. |
| who was in relocation camps? | Japanese Americans were moved to relocation camps by the army during WW2. |
| what was the invation of Normandy (D-Day)? | on June 6, 1944 Allied troops land on beaches of Normandy. They go on to free France from German control. |
| name two results of D-Day? | France was freed from Germany and the Germans had to split their troops and open up a weatern front. |
| what is island hopping? | a stratiegy of capturing some Japanese-held islands and going around others. |
| what was the role of the Navajo code-talkers? | radioed vital mesages from island to island. |
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