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_______________ allowed workers to put a product together part by part. |
assembly lines |
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The _______________ let people buy large, expensive items without having to pay all the money up front. |
installment plan |
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What was the main concern of the three men who were elected President in the 1920s? |
To return to the life that Americans had before World War 1. |
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Why did Hoover believe in American industry and government working together? |
Because the industry and government could bring prosperity or economic well-being to Americans. |
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How did Henry Ford change the way Americans lived? |
By creating the Model T and lowering the price of it for people. |
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How did the automobile affect other industries? |
By having the rubber and petroleum industry expand, have gasoline stations open, have roads built, and many other things. |
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How did the business boom affect the average American? |
By giving them the desire to buy things. |
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How did advertising help to strengthen the economy in the 1920s? |
By having businesses and corporations gain more power and money. |
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Warren G. Harding |
won the election of 1920; President plagued with many scandals |
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Albert Fall |
Secretary of the Interior responsible for the Teapot Dome Scandal; first Cabinet member to be imprisoned. |
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Henry Ford |
invented the assembly line and an affordable automobile |
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Calvin Coolidge |
became president after Warren Harding died; served until 1928 |
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Musicians in the 1920s? |
Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith |
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Writers in the 1920s? |
Zora Neale Hurston, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes |
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Athletes in the 1920s? |
Jack Dempsey, Gertrude Ederle, Helen Wills, Babe Ruth |
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Governors in the 1920s? |
Nellie Tayloe Ross, Miriam Ferguson |
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The 1920s was known as the __________ due to the rise of popularity in this form of music. |
Jazz Age |
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The African American cultural movement during the 1920s was called the _____________________. |
Harlem Renaissance |
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What were some of the changes in American literature? |
People reading, buying, and writing books. |
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What was the Harlem Renaissance? |
An African American cultural movement in the 1920s. |
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Who were some of the heroes of the 1920s? |
Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart. |
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What gains did women make in politics in the 1920s? |
Women voted and became governors. |
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Louis Armstrong |
African American musician who made jazz famous around the world. |
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Zora Neale Hurston |
starred in the first "talkie", released in 1927 |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald |
wrote The Great Gatsby |
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Al Jolson |
wrote novels based on African American folklore |
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George Herman Ruth |
nicknamed the "Babe", played for the New York Yankees in the 1920s |
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Charles Lindbergh |
became the first person to fly from New York to Paris (across the Atlantic) alone |
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Gertrude Ederle |
was the first woman to swim across the English Channel from France to England |
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Aimee Semple McPherson |
evangelist who built a large church in Los Angeles that appealed to people that recently moved to the city |
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John T. Scopes |
young teacher who taught Darwin's theory and was arrested and put in jail |
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quota |
fixed number of a certain group of immigrants admitted to a country |
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deport |
to force someone to leave a country |
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fundamentalist |
person who believes in a strict interpretation of the Bible or another religious book |
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Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti |
Italian immigrants who were arrested in Massachusetts for a payroll robbery and the murder of a paymaster and his guard |
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bootlegger |
a person who made or transported alcohol illegally |
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Ku Klux Klan |
group that saw all foreigners as a threat to the United States |
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Put these events in order. ___ 2. Congress passes the National Origins Act. ___ 3. Congress passes the Emergency Quote Act. ___ 4. Charles Darwin publishes his theory of evolution. |
1 1. The 18th Amendment is passed.
3 2. Congress passes the National Origins Act. 2 3. Congress passes the Emergency Quote Act. 4 4. Charles Darwin publishes his theory of evolution. |
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Al Capone |
famous gangster who transported and sold alcohol illegally |
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Clarence Darrow |
strong fundamentalist who represented the state of Tennessee in the Scopes trial |
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ACLU |
the organization that disagreed with the law prohibiting the teaching of evolution |
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William Jennings Bryan |
ACLU lawyer that represented John Scopes during his trial |
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People who produced and sold alcohol illegally were called _____________. |
bootleggers |
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Many communists were ___________ from the United States in the 1920s. |
deported |
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In 1921, only a fixed amount, or _________, of immigrants were allowed into the country. |
quota |
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_________________ rejected any idea that was against their beliefs. |
fundamentalists |
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How did Prohibition lead to an increase in organized crimes? |
By bootleggers distributing alcohol and gangsters controlling businesses. |
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What were 2 reasons people wanted to limit immigration? |
1) People thought immigrants were Communists. 2) People thought immigrants were threats. |
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How did some people think Sacco and Vanzetti had been wrongly convicted? |
Because the two were foreigners with radical ideas to change the government. |
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What was one way religion and science seemed to differ in the 1920s? |
While religion said that God did evolution, science said that man did it. |
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What was the outcome of the Scopes trial? |
John Scopes was convicted and fines $100, and Tennessee Supreme Court reversed their decision later. |
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Money gained from a business or investment after expenses have been paid is called a ________. |
profit |
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In the later half of 1929, the Unites States entered a ____________ that would last very long time. |
depression |
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Hoover started more ___________ programs to try and stimulate the economy. |
public work |
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California had many _______________ that would move from place to place to harvest crops. |
migrant workers |
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What part did the consumer goods play in causing the Great Depression? |
Consumer goods made more products and people kept buying them when they didn't need them. |
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Why did the Hawley Smoot Tariff Act backfire? |
Because European countries raised their tariffs. |
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What steps did President Hoover take to help the economy? |
Hoover gave loans to banks and businesses and formed the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. |
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What caused farm families to migrate from the Great Plains to California? |
The drought and the Dust Bowl. |
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What caused the Dust Bowl? |
Dust clouding the sky. |
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When did women gain the right to vote nationally? |
1920 |
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installment plan |
payment for an item in small, regular amounts over a period of time |
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Prohibition |
the ban of making and selling alcoholic drinks |
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migrant workers |
people who move from place to place to find work, usually harvesting crops |