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Ch 25 social L. 4
The Roaring Twenties
Question | Answer |
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What happened in the election of 1928? | The two candidates are Alfred E. Smith (Democratic) and Herbert Hoover(Republican). In the end, the Republicans were identified with the booming economy of the 1920s. |
Who is Marcus Garvey? Why is he important? | -started the first widespread black nationalist movement. -He also organized the Improvement Association. -He urged African Americans to go back to their homelands. |
What are 3 industries that are hurt in the pearls of prosperity? | clothing industry -hurt by change in fashion. coal industry -lost jobs to oil industry. railroad industry -losses out to trucks/cars. |
What happens to the farmers? | hit hard and can't pay loans. |
what did the average American earn in a year? | less than 2,000 a year. |
how does the government react to the feeling of being a nativist? | the government reacts by a quota system |
what is a quota system? | favors western Europe and denies Asians. |
what is the Jones Act of 1917? | gave Puerto Ricans citizenship |
what was occurring with Darwin's Theory of Evolution? | many people were against it because it was against many religions. Also many people were arrested for teaching it. |
who is Scopes? What are the results of the trial? | a teacher who taught Darwin's theory of evolution and got arrested for it. He lost the trial and was convicted and fined. |
what is the difference between the old Klan and the new Klan? | old was voting. new preserved U.S. for white, native born protestants. |
what do the blacks that were in the war come home to? | segregation, race riots, and other racism. |