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1st sem review pt 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Known as “Empress of the Blues” the most well-known, well-paid artist of her time? | Bessie Smith |
| A law that established a military draft in 1917. | Selective Service Act |
| Buying stock on credit by paying a percentage up front and borrowing the rest of its cost. | buying on margin |
| This was created by women who thought men were spending too much time and money on alcohol (also because immigrant drankalcohol)? | Temperance Movement |
| Became President in 1920 promised a “Return to Normalcy”? | Warren G. Harding |
| A group violently opposed to immigrants, Catholics, Jews, & African-American. | Ku Klux Klan (KKK) |
| Why did many Americans want new leadership in 1932? | President Hoover's economic policies had failed. |
| This gave women the right to vote in 1919 | 19th Amendment |
| A march on Washington in 1932 in which World War I veterans seek bonus payment | Bonus Army |
| A period of rising prices in the stock market | Bull Market |
| He wrote “How the Other Half Live” which exposed poor living conditions in the city. | Jacob Riis |
| Payment for war damages | Reparations |
| Rural farmers who lost their land but stayed on to work for larger landowners | Tenant farmers |
| An exclusively American art form based on improvisation that came to represent the Roaring Twenties? | Jazz |
| October 24, 1929, the day the stock market crashed | Black Tuesday |
| This outlawed monopolies? | Sherman Antitrust Act |
| This banned the selling, making, and transportation of alcoholic beverages? | 18th Amendment |
| Teddy Roosevelt’s plan for a fair and honest government and to help working class people? | Square Deal |
| Manufacturing technique in which products move past worker, each whom adds one small component | Assembly Line |
| policy whereby problems are best solved at the state and local level and not by the federal government | Localism |
| The rapid, large-scale manufacture of identical products? | Mass Production |
| The first person to fly solo and non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean in a plane named The Spirit of St. Louis? | Charles Lindberg |
| These deadly weapons were used for the first time during World War I? | Submarines, tanks, airplanes, Machine guns, artillery guns, poison gas |
| Shantytowns set up on empty land in cities | Hoovervilles |
| Trenches that stretched from the Belgian coast to the Swiss border with France. | The Western Front |
| Someone who illegally sold alcohol during Prohibition | Bootlegger |
| Founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and the “Back to Africa” movement who promoted black pride. | Marcus Garvey |
| When investors gamble that stock prices will rise is called | Speculation |
| The right of people to choose their own form of government? | Self-Determination |
| A flood of new, affordable goods. | Consumer Revolution |
| She was jailed for telling women about birth control. | Margaret Sanger |
| She was a young, radical suffragist who founded the National Women’s Party? | Alice Paul |
| Farmers contributed to the problems that led to the Dust Bowl by | Using intensive farming practices that removed protective grasses |
| A young woman of the 1920s who rejected traditional values and dress. | Flapper |
| Another name for a German Submarine? | U-Boats |
| 1925 “Monkey Trial” which challenged a law against teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution in Tennessee public schools | Scopes Trial |
| Huge public works project on the Colorado River that provided jobs, water for irrigation, and power | Hoover Dam |
| Term for killed, wounded, or missing solider. | Casualty |
| Economic theory that held that money lent to large banks and corporations would in turn be invested in small businesses which would hire more workers- | Trickle-Down Economics |
| This redrew the map of Europe and broke up the Ottoman Empire? | Treaty of Versailles |
| . Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall took bribes in return for leasing federal oil reserves to private companies | Teapot Dome Scandal |
| High protective tariff passed in June 1930 that contributed to a worldwide depression. | Hawley-Smoot Tariff |
| Automobile manufactured by Henry Ford to be affordable to a mass market? | Model T |
| Wilson’s plan for lasting peace and cooperation? | Fourteen Points |
| Why did volunteerism fail | Businesses and citizens acted in their own best interests. |
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