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Unit 5 history
UNIT 5 HISTORY
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what were the 1020's called | the roaring twenties |
| what was the period of prosperity | culturally artistic phase |
| what was culturally artistic phase | urban migration |
| what did urban migration do | developed progressive mentally |
| what was the expanding new coverage | mass circulation magazines |
| what were the two main magazines | readers digest and time |
| what was also a big influential on medium, and also created the shared national experience | radio |
| what were the three main dances | charleston, camal walk, fox trot |
| what were the gentalmens fashion | oxford bags or pants and patent leather hair |
| what were most women called | flappers |
| what did they want to be flappers | rebellious, urban attitudes |
| what masculine behaviors did they have | smoking, drinking, talked openly about sex |
| what was the harlem renaissance | artistic movement |
| what tree main men were involved in this | louis armstrong, duke ellington, cab calloway |
| what did cab calloway popularize | scating |
| what was prohibition | the noble experiment |
| why was alcohol illegal | caused to crime, social sbuse |
| who were the supporters of prohibition | protestants of south and west |
| what established the prohibition bureau | volstead act |
| what as wrong with the volstead act | underfunded, and understaffed |
| what were speakeasies | people who had hidden saloons and nightclubs |
| what must you do in the places | speak quality or easily to avoid decection |
| who created alcohol | moonshine |
| what did they make it with | many times with dangerous products |
| what were bootleggers | smuhhlers |
| where was alcohol from | canda, cuba, west indies |
| what did protesants believe | literal interpretation of the bible |
| what did they use | emotional theatrics (Billy Sunday) |
| what did Billy Sunday preach | new virtuous world |
| what did he reject | theory of evolution |
| what was evolution | humans evolved from apes |
| what passed law that teaching evoultion was a crim | tennesse |
| what promised to defend any teacher who challenged law | american civil liberties union |
| what did that | john t. scopes |
| the scopes was called what | monkey trial |
| what inflated global supply and demand | vacuum of ww1 |
| what were the troubled industries | railroad, textiles,steel |
| did they make any profit off of this | little |
| what were the farmers debt as in how much did the prices decline | 40 percent |
| who brought less due to rising prices and stagnant wager | consumers |
| what was the ritch got ritcher and the poor gor pooer | uneven distribution of wealth |
| what was the inflated stock market | the stock market crash |
| what was the period of rising stock prices | bull market |
| what was paying only percentage of stock value | buying on margin |
| what happened when prices plunged | black tuesday |
| how much money did they lose | 30 billion |
| what was the financial collapse | the great deppression |
| how many bank failures in 1933 | 11,000 of 25,000 closed |
| what wsa the total output of goods and services | gross national product GNP |
| where did homeless people go | breadlines, soup kitchens, shantytowns |
| who wandered country looking for work | hoboes |
| what was the phyxhologial effects | sucide about 30 percent and mental hospitals triplse |
| what happen when you are unable to pay debt | foreclosures |
| where did many turn to | tenent farming |
| where did children work | 300,000 at sweatshops |
| who traveled america on railroad | hoover tourists 11 to 17 yrs old |
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