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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are ways that electricity changed life? | Washing machines, lighting, stoves, pumps, radio, communication |
| What amendment is the prohibition amendment? | 18th |
| What is prohibition? | illegal manufacturing, tranporting, or selling alcoholic beverages |
| What were created as places for people to drink illegal alcohol? | Speakeasies |
| Who smuggled illegal alcohol and promoted organized crime? | bootleggers |
| What group was in the Great Migration North | African Americans |
| Why did African Americans move north | No jobs in south, discrimination, violence |
| Name the artist known for urban scenes and painting of the Southwest | Georgia O'Keefe |
| Who wrote about the Jazz Age of the 1920's | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Who portrayed the strength of poor migrant workers during the 1930's | John Steinbeck |
| Name two composers who wrote uniquely American Music | Aaron Copland and George Gershwin |
| Name the painter who chronicled the experiences of the Great Migration North | Jacob Lawrence |
| Name the poet who combined the experiences of African and American cultural roots | Langston Hughes |
| Name two Jazz composers | Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington |
| Name the femal blues singer popular during the 1920s | Bessie Smith |
| Name three reasons for the Great Depression | overspeculation, collapse of the banking system, high tariffs |
| What is overspeculation | thinking that the prices of stocks are going to get very high, borrowing money that you cannot pay back |
| What was the impact of the great depression | banks and businesses failed, no jobs, hungry, homeless, farmers hurt |
| What president was responsible for the New Deal | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Describe the New Deal | Social Security, federal work programs, environmental jobs, farm help, increased rights for labor |
| What ended the Great Depression? | WWII |
| How were the Japanese Americans treated during the war | some served in the army, prejudice, forced into intermment camps |
| Name the Causes of WWII | Political instability, economic devastation, rise of fascism |
| Describe the economic devastation of Europe | depression, war debt, inflation, and unemployment |
| Wgat us fascusn | total power is given to a dictator and individual freedom is denied |
| Name three dictators of WWII | Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo |
| Name the countries the dictators represent | Germany, Italy, Japan |
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