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S.S. ch. 7 2010
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Making of a large number of goods that are exactly alike. | mass production |
| A person who moves from place to place harvesting crops | migrant worker |
| Borrowed money | credit |
| Place where stocks are bought and sold | stock market |
| Musical form that began in New Orleans, Louisiana, and was influenced by African American musical traditions. | jazz |
| Method of mass production in which a product is put together as it moves past a line of workers. | assembley line |
| Public forms of communication that reach large audiences | mass media |
| Rapid rise in prices | inflation |
| long period without rain | drought |
| Number of workers without jobs | unemployment |
| Guglielmo Marconi was the first to _____? | send a radio message across the Atlantic Ocean |
| Louis Armstrong, a famous jazz musician, was nicknamed Satchmo because________? | the way his cheeks puffed out when he played the trumpet |
| Charles Lindbergh, the first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean, went from___________? | New York to Paris |
| Who won the 1932 presidential election and promised to get the country out of the bad economic times? | Franklin D. Rossevelt |
| Dorothea Lange, a photographer, was hired by the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Why did the FSA hire her? | To bring the conditions of the poor to the public's attention by showing her photographs |
| What was the site where Henry Ford built his first assembly line in a factory? | Detroit |
| Jazz began among African American musicians in what city? | New Orleans |
| Social Security was paid to_______? | the elderly, the disabled, the unemployed |
| Much of what part of the U.S. became known as the Dust Bowl? | Great Plains |
| The center of the stock market is the New York Stock Exchange, which is on__________? | Wall Street |
| What was the name of the car that Henry Ford built and made popular? | Model T |
| What were movies with sound called? | talkies |
| What amendment was also called the prohibition Amendment? | 18th |
| Name the energetic dance that could be performed by one person, with a partner, or in a group? | Charleston |
| What nickname did F. Scott Fitzgerald give the 1920's? | Jazz Age |
| Name the airplane Charles Lindbergh used on his famous flight across the Atlantic Ocean? | The Spirit of St. Louis |
| Give me the month, date, and year that "Black Tuesday" occurred. | Oct. 29,1929 |
| What was the name given to the worst period of economic hardship in out country's history | Great Depression |
| What was the name given to the series of programs started by Franklin D. Roosevelt to try to help the nation recover from the economic hardship? | New Deal |
| How many shares of stock were traded on "Black Tuesday"? | 16 million |
| Who was Langston Hughes? | a writer who wrote about the lives of African Americans |
| Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly________? | alone across the Atlantic Ocean |
| Georia O'Keefe became famous for her painting of________? | her colorful scenes from nature |
| Jacob Lawrence created several series of paintings the showed_________? | African American life and history |
| What was Herbert Hoover unsuccessful in getting the United States out of? | The Great Deression |
| Who wrote the book "The Grapes of Wrath", a story of a family that leaves the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma to find work in California? | John Steinbeck |
| How did Eleanor Roosevelt help her husband? | by traveling the country to see if the new programs were improving conditions across the U.S. |
| What was Prohibition? | a time where selling and transporting alcohol was against the law |
| What was the 21st Amendment? | ended Prohibition |
| What was the Harlem Renaissance? | African American aritsts moved to Harlem. New York and used writing, music , and painting to share their ideas and feelings about life |
| What were speakeasies? | A place were people illegally drank alcohol during the Prohibition |
| Who wrote a book entitled "The Great Gatsby", which was an example of a book that told about the way some city people lived during the 1920's? | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Zora Neale Hurston, author of the novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God", often wrote about_______? | experiences of African American women |
| What did Henry Ford use to help build his model-T faster? | an assembly line |
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