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USHistory/Schoolhous
Exploration to the Present Day Unit Seven
Question | Answer |
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two nicknames for the 1920s | “Roaring Twenties” and the “Jazz Age” |
vehicle that made car ownership available to the average American and who created it | Model T; Henry Ford |
made the automobile affordable | The assembly line |
flew across the Atlantic in the first non-stop flight in ____________ | Charles Lindbergh/Spirit of St. Louis |
cultural expression that urban African Americans developed in the 1920s | Harlem Renaissance |
founder of the NAACP and the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard | W.E.B. Du Bois |
presidential election of 1920 | Warren G. Harding (Pres.) Calvin Coolidge (VP) |
1920 Secretary of Commerce and Secretary of the Treasury who both believed that government should run efficiently | Herbert Hoover and Andrew Mellon |
found guilty of teaching evolution in Tennessee | John Scopes |
During “The Hundred Days,” President Roosevelt revitalized the faith of the nation by setting into motion a | “New Deal” for America. |
CCC , Civilian Conservation Corps. | thousands of unemployed young men, were enrolled in a peacetime army to improve millions of acres of federal, state and some private land. |