U.s. History Unit 6

Front 1

_______________ allowed workers to put a product together part by part.

Back 1

assembly lines

Front 2

The _______________ let people buy large, expensive items without having to pay all the money up front.

Back 2

installment plan

Front 3

What was the main concern of the three men who were elected President in the 1920s?

Back 3

To return to the life that Americans had before World War 1.

Front 4

Why did Hoover believe in American industry and government working together?

Back 4

Because the industry and government could bring prosperity or economic well-being to Americans.

Front 5

How did Henry Ford change the way Americans lived?

Back 5

By creating the Model T and lowering the price of it for people.

Front 6

How did the automobile affect other industries?

Back 6

By having the rubber and petroleum industry expand, have gasoline stations open, have roads built, and many other things.

Front 7

How did the business boom affect the average American?

Back 7

By giving them the desire to buy things.

Front 8

How did advertising help to strengthen the economy in the 1920s?

Back 8

By having businesses and corporations gain more power and money.

Front 9

Warren G. Harding

Back 9

won the election of 1920; President plagued with many scandals

Front 10

Albert Fall

Back 10

Secretary of the Interior responsible for the Teapot Dome Scandal; first Cabinet member to be imprisoned.

Front 11

Henry Ford

Back 11

invented the assembly line and an affordable automobile

Front 12

Calvin Coolidge

Back 12

became president after Warren Harding died; served until 1928

Front 13

Musicians in the 1920s?

Back 13

Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith

Front 14

Writers in the 1920s?

Back 14

Zora Neale Hurston, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes

Front 15

Athletes in the 1920s?

Back 15

Jack Dempsey, Gertrude Ederle, Helen Wills, Babe Ruth

Front 16

Governors in the 1920s?

Back 16

Nellie Tayloe Ross, Miriam Ferguson

Front 17

The 1920s was known as the __________ due to the rise of popularity in this form of music.

Back 17

Jazz Age

Front 18

The African American cultural movement during the 1920s was called the _____________________.

Back 18

Harlem Renaissance

Front 19

What were some of the changes in American literature?

Back 19

People reading, buying, and writing books.

Front 20

What was the Harlem Renaissance?

Back 20

An African American cultural movement in the 1920s.

Front 21

Who were some of the heroes of the 1920s?

Back 21

Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart.

Front 22

What gains did women make in politics in the 1920s?

Back 22

Women voted and became governors.

Front 23

Louis Armstrong

Back 23

African American musician who made jazz famous around the world.

Front 24

Zora Neale Hurston

Back 24

starred in the first "talkie", released in 1927

Front 25

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Back 25

wrote The Great Gatsby

Front 26

Al Jolson

Back 26

wrote novels based on African American folklore

Front 27

George Herman Ruth

Back 27

nicknamed the "Babe", played for the New York Yankees in the 1920s

Front 28

Charles Lindbergh

Back 28

became the first person to fly from New York to Paris (across the Atlantic) alone

Front 29

Gertrude Ederle

Back 29

was the first woman to swim across the English Channel from France to England

Front 30

Aimee Semple McPherson

Back 30

evangelist who built a large church in Los Angeles that appealed to people that recently moved to the city

Front 31

John T. Scopes

Back 31

young teacher who taught Darwin's theory and was arrested and put in jail

Front 32

quota

Back 32

fixed number of a certain group of immigrants admitted to a country

Front 33

deport

Back 33

to force someone to leave a country

Front 34

fundamentalist

Back 34

person who believes in a strict interpretation of the Bible or another religious book

Front 35

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

Back 35

Italian immigrants who were arrested in Massachusetts for a payroll robbery and the murder of a paymaster and his guard

Front 36

bootlegger

Back 36

a person who made or transported alcohol illegally

Front 37

Ku Klux Klan

Back 37

group that saw all foreigners as a threat to the United States

Front 38

Put these events in order.

___ 1. The 18th Amendment is passed.

___ 2. Congress passes the National Origins Act.

___ 3. Congress passes the Emergency Quote Act.

___ 4. Charles Darwin publishes his theory of evolution.

Back 38

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.

Front 39

Al Capone

Back 39

famous gangster who transported and sold alcohol illegally

Front 40

Clarence Darrow

Back 40

strong fundamentalist who represented the state of Tennessee in the Scopes trial

Front 41

ACLU

Back 41

the organization that disagreed with the law prohibiting the teaching of evolution

Front 42

William Jennings Bryan

Back 42

ACLU lawyer that represented John Scopes during his trial

Front 43

People who produced and sold alcohol illegally were called _____________.

Back 43

bootleggers

Front 44

Many communists were ___________ from the United States in the 1920s.

Back 44

deported

Front 45

In 1921, only a fixed amount, or _________, of immigrants were allowed into the country.

Back 45

quota

Front 46

_________________ rejected any idea that was against their beliefs.

Back 46

fundamentalists

Front 47

How did Prohibition lead to an increase in organized crimes?

Back 47

By bootleggers distributing alcohol and gangsters controlling businesses.

Front 48

What were 2 reasons people wanted to limit immigration?

Back 48

1) People thought immigrants were Communists.

2) People thought immigrants were threats.

Front 49

How did some people think Sacco and Vanzetti had been wrongly convicted?

Back 49

Because the two were foreigners with radical ideas to change the government.

Front 50

What was one way religion and science seemed to differ in the 1920s?

Back 50

While religion said that God did evolution, science said that man did it.

Front 51

What was the outcome of the Scopes trial?

Back 51

John Scopes was convicted and fines $100, and Tennessee Supreme Court reversed their decision later.

Front 52

Money gained from a business or investment after expenses have been paid is called a ________.

Back 52

profit

Front 53

In the later half of 1929, the Unites States entered a ____________ that would last very long time.

Back 53

depression

Front 54

Hoover started more ___________ programs to try and stimulate the economy.

Back 54

public work

Front 55

California had many _______________ that would move from place to place to harvest crops.

Back 55

migrant workers

Front 56

What part did the consumer goods play in causing the Great Depression?

Back 56

Consumer goods made more products and people kept buying them when they didn't need them.

Front 57

Why did the Hawley Smoot Tariff Act backfire?

Back 57

Because European countries raised their tariffs.

Front 58

What steps did President Hoover take to help the economy?

Back 58

Hoover gave loans to banks and businesses and formed the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

Front 59

What caused farm families to migrate from the Great Plains to California?

Back 59

The drought and the Dust Bowl.

Front 60

What caused the Dust Bowl?

Back 60

Dust clouding the sky.

Front 61

When did women gain the right to vote nationally?

Back 61

1920

Front 62

installment plan

Back 62

payment for an item in small, regular amounts over a period of time

Front 63

Prohibition

Back 63

the ban of making and selling alcoholic drinks

Front 64

migrant workers

Back 64

people who move from place to place to find work, usually harvesting crops