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1st sem review pt2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Prolific writer/poet who celebrated African American culture and life | Langston Hughes |
| She was head of NAWSA and used the political process to get women the right to vote? | Carrie Chapman Catt |
| A formula to determine how many immigrants could enter the US annually from a given country | Quota System |
| He applied mass production techniques to manufacture automobiles; initiated major changes that impacted wages, working conditions, and daily life. | Henry Ford |
| A group of ships that travels together during WWI for safety? | Convoy |
| Rural farmers produced huge surpluses of food that depressed prices Farmers couldn’t afford to buy goods or | repay their loans |
| created in 1932 to lend cash to investors to stimulate the economy | Reconstruction Finance Corporation |
| Who was the Archduke of Austria-Hungary that was assassinated in 1914? | Franz Ferdinand |
| . President Hoover responded cautiously to the depression because he | thought that the business cycle would correct itself. |
| A movement of 1.2 million African-Americans from the South to the North? | The Great Migration |
| The first sports celebrity nicked-named the “Sultan of Swat” and the “Bambino”? | Babe Ruth |
| The unemployment rate among African Americans was | nearly double the national rate. |
| A 1917 law that gave postal authorities the power to ban treasonable or seditious material from the mail. | Sedition Act |
| A person whose moral and religious views forbid participation in war? | Conscientious Objector |
| An English passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-Boat? | The Lusitania |
| When millions of acres in the Great Plains that were destroyed when dust storms blew away the soil- | Dust Bowl |
| Analysis of a manufacturing process to improve speed and efficiency | Scientific Management |
| Agreement to outlaw war as an instrument of national policy | Kellogg-Briand Pact |
| The Central powers included the following countries: | Germany & Austria-Hungry |
| Why did so many banks fail at the onset of the Great Depression? | Too many depositors tried to withdraw their money all at once. |
| He took over the presidency after T. Roosevelt retired from office but failed to keep Roosevelt’s Progressive policies in place. | W.H. Taft |
| A popular silent film star who was known for his physical comedy. | Charlie Chaplin |
| Periodic expansion and contraction of the economy | Business cycle |
| This virus caused a deadly epidemic in 1918, causing between 20-50 million deaths? | Influenza |
| Telegram in which the German foreign minister proposed an alliance with Mexico against the US. | Zimmerman Note |
| This group wanted to reform things like: child labor, worker’s rights, and consumer safety | Progressives |
| Harlem Renaissance writers who showed the struggles of ordinary African Americans and called for social and political change? | Claude McKay |
| Senator who opposed ratification of the Treaty of Versailles? | Henry Cabot Lodge |
| Great Plains farmers forced off their land by the Dust Bowl | Okies |
| This Progressive lady took on John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil? | Ida Tarbell |
| The flowering of African-American arts and literature in the 1920s in New York | Harlem Renaissance |
| The collapse of the United States and world economies beginning in 1929. | Great Depression |
| Where charities or local agencies gave food to the poor | Bread line |
| Buying on credit by making an initial down payment and the paying the balance over time | Installment Buying |
| Both African Americans and Mexican Americans had an especially difficult time during the Great Depression because they | faced discrimination when competing for jobs. |
| This was the first talking motion picture? | The Jazz Singer |
| . She established settlement houses in Chicago to help immigrants? | Jane Addams |
| The Allied Powers included the following countries: | Britain, France, & Russia |
| The tragic event that took place here killed a 156 people (mostly women) and helped to change workplace safety? | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory |
| Folklorist and author of Their Eyes were Watching God | Zora Neal Hurston |
| General who led American Forces in Europe? | General John Pershing |
| A world organization thought of by President Wilson to promote peaceful corporation between countries. | League of Nations |
| This trumpet player influenced the development of Jazz. | Louis Armstrong |
| The general right for citizens to present a new bill? | initiative |
| A law that gave the government power to enforce the 18th Amendment | Volstead Act |
| The process that allows citizens to approve or reject a law passed by a legislature | Referendum |
| Secretary of Commerce Under Harding; favored voluntary cooperation between businesses and workers | Herbert Hoover |
| A process in which voters can remove elected officials from office before their term ends? | Recall |
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