History Ch. 24 & 25
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| Marcus Garvey | Political activist |
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| Louis Armstrong | Musician |
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| Duke Ellington | Musician |
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| Langston Hughes | Author |
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| Claude Mckay | Author |
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| Bessie Smith | Musician |
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| James Weldon Johnson | Author |
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| Countee Cullen | Author |
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| The Harlem Renaissance | a flowering of African American culture, a movement that instilled an interest in African culture and pride in being African American |
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| Capitalism | an economic system based on private property and free enterprise |
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| Bolsheviks/ Communists/ "Reds" | Took control of Russia in WW1 |
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| Recession | an economic downturn |
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| Speakeasies | illegal bars |
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| Flappers | care-free young women with short, "bobbed" hair, heavy makeup, and short skirts |
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| Gross National Product | total value of all good and services produced |
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| Expatriate | people that choose to live in another country |
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| Bootlegging | making and selling illegal alcohol |
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| Isolationism | isolated from world affairs |
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| "Red Scare" | fear of "red" coup |
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| Five-Power Treaty | limited the size of the navies of The US, Italy, France, Japan and Britain |
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| Kellogg-Briand Pact | called for outlawing war |
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| Eighteenth Amendment | Established Prohibition |
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| Nineteenth Amendment | Guaranteed women the right to vote |
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| Emergency Quota Act | established an arrangement placing a limit on the number of immigrants from each country |
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| Scopes Trial | Evolution was not allowed to be taught in schools. It was challenged by John Scopes. |
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| Sacco and Vanzetti case and what feelings it revealed of the US public | Sacco and Vanzetti were charged and killed for robbing a bank and killing a guard. It revealed deep feelings against foreigners and radicals, U.S. nativism |
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| Actions of Calvin Coolidge in the Boston Police Force strike | fired the entire police force |
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| Name of the corruption scandal that symbolized Harding's administration and presidency | Teapot Dome |
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| Babe Ruth | Baseball Star, who hit 60 home runs in 1927 |
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| The Jazz Singer | the first "talkie", movie with sound |
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| The results of the car boom | it provided jobs for americans, needed materials for building the cars, such as rubber, glass and steel, which they got from other industries, which boosted their industries |
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| Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis | Flew the Atlantic Ocean solo, the spirit of St. Louis was his plane |
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| Will Rogers | grew up roping cattle, starred in wild west shows, he wrote a column in the newspaper about his views on the government and people listened to him on the radio. he died in a plane crash. |
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| T.S. Eliot | white poet |
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| Franklin D. Roosevelt | President of the United States, created the New Deal to help end the Great Depression |
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| John Steinbeck | author of Grapes of Wrath, about farm families fleeing from the dust bowl |
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| Benny Goodman & Glen Miller | Musicians, worked with with big band music and swing music |
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| Lou Henry Hoover | President of the US during the beginning of the Great Depression, thought the Great Depression was temporary, tried to support the needy and called on business leaders not to cut wages or production of goods |
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| Eleanor Roosevelt | Wife of FDR, the first lady, who often acted as her husband's eyes and ears, she campaigned for minorities and women |
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| Frances Perkins | Roosevelt's secretary of labor |
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| Shirley Temple | young movie star, that earned $400,000 in 1934 |
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| Clark Gable | American film actor, known as the king of hollywood, starred in gone with the wind |
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| Amelia Earhart | became the first women to fly the atlantic ocean solo |
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| King Kong | movie about a giant gorilla on a mysterious island |
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| Bugs Bunny | a cartoon rabbit that entertained people with his famous phrase " eh, Whats Up, Doc?" |
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| Joe Louis | heavyweight boxing champion |
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| Jesse Owens | an african american athlete who won four gold medals in track and field events at the 1936 olympic games in berlin |
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| Chiang Kai Shek & Mao Tse Tung | mao zedong was the head of the chinese communist forces who defeated chiang kai-skek, the head of the chinese government |
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| Dorothea Lange | photographer who photographed people during the depression-era |
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| The Great Depression | a severe economic crisis that the US slid into due to the stock market crash and other financial problems |
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| Default | fail to make loan payments |
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| Migrant workers | workers who move from place to place to harvest fruits and vegetables |
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| Fireside Chats | informal radio talks made by Roosevelt hoping to gain the public's confidence |
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| Black Thursday | when panicked traders sold almost 13 million shares due to the slowly declining stock prices |
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| Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) | provided jobs for young men to plant trees and build bridges |
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| Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) | paid farmers not to grow certain crops |
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| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) | insured savings accounts in banks approved by the government |
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| Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) | regulated the sale of stocks and bonds, the law gave the SEC the power to punish dishonest stockbrokers and speculators |
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| Social Security Act (SSA) Whom did the SSA help? | created a tax on workers and employers, that money provided a monthly pension for retired people. The SSA helped, people with disabilities, the elderly, the poor, and the children of parents who could not support them |
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| Public Works Administration (PWA) | Built ports, schools, and aircraft carriers |
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| Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) | Built dams to provide cheap electric power to seven Southern states; set up schools and health centers |
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| Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) | Gave relief to the unemployed and needy |
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| Pluto | furthest planet from the sun, recently has been a dwarf planet |
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| Hooverville | pitiful, shanty towns made out of boxes that homeless lived in during the Depression |
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| New Guinea | located immediately north of Australia in the Southwest Pacific, is the world's second largest island. |
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| Antarctica | The coldest of the seven continents, home to penguins, seals and polar bears, current population of humans 0. is suffering due to global warming |
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| What was the Bonus Army and what did they want? | they were veteran soldiers from WW1, and they wanted their $1000 bonus that they were promised to get in 1945 |
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| What was the Dust Bowl and what caused it? | The dust bowl was a wind storm in the great plains that picked up soil, that had dried out when farmers cleared millions of acres of sod, which was holding the soil in place and then a drought struck. |
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| Ma Rainey | Musician |
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| What states were most affected by the Dust Bowl? | Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Colorado |
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| What types of radio programs were popular during the Great Depression? How did they get their names? | some radio programs were soap operas, soap operas earned their names because they were sponsored by laundry detergents |
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| How did the Great Depression affect African Americans? | many african americans in the south lost their jobs and the collapse of farm prices crushed african american farmers, many african americans had to move up north |
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| How did FDR attempt to prevent the supreme court from undoing the new deal? | FDR increased the number of justices on the court from 9 to 15 |
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| Why did the supreme court rule some new deal programs unconstitutional? | the supreme court believed that Congress had exceeded its lawful power to regulate interstate commerce |
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| Who were FDR's man supporters in the 1936 election? What group would most likely not vote for him? | progressives and liberals, the poor and unemployed, urban workers and african americans were supported him. democrats were most likely not to support him. |
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| What was the New Deal? | the name given to the new laws aimed at relieving the Depression, which were passed by Congress during the Hundred Days and the months that followed |
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| What were four major factors that led the Great Depression? | Stock Market Crash, Banks suffered when people defaulted, The growing gap in wealth between rich people and most americans, employers cut wages and laid off workers so they could no longer afford consumer goods |
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| What areas, and groups of people, were the hardest hit by the Great Depression? Why? | The south because many farmers lost their farms, and minorities (African americans, hispanic americans and native americans) because they had to move and they lost many of their jobs. |
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| How did Hoover handle the Depression? | he thought the depression was temporary, hoover called on business leaders not to cut wages or production of goods and on charities to help the needy, he authorized additional federal spending on public works |
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| Why did the stock market crash? | Buying stocks on margin contributed to the stock market crash, because when the stock prices dropped the banks wanted their loan back, so the investor had to sell the stock, so the stock market was losing its investors. | Also rich stock owners started selling their stocks, the companies were losing a lot of their money, so their stocks went down
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| How did talkies change the roles of actors? | actors no longer just acted, they also had to say their lines |
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| How did sound change some silent star's popularity? | the people may like the actor/actress better if they could hear their voice, rather than just seeing the words on the screen |
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| What were two aviation inventions in the Great Depression? | airplanes and |
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| How did FDR handle the Depression? | Roosevelt passed the Emergency Banking Relief act to help banks after closing them for 4 days. Roosevelt sent out a radio broadcast saying that it was save for people to put their money back into the banks. | Congress established the FDIC to insure bank deposits and avoid future banking crisis. Congress also passed a law regulating the sale of stocks and bonds and created the SEC. FDR also passed the Social security act which provided pensions for the needy
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