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American Cultures Final Review
Roaring 20s
Question: African American movement in the arts expressing new found black pride and independence
Answer: Harlem Renaissance
Question: Biology teacher was sued by Tennessee for teaching evolution in school
Answer: Scopes Trial
Question: Reason Americans were able to buy stuff they could not afford
Answer: Buying on Credit
Question: The right to vote
Answer: Suffrage
Question: The biggest clash in the 1920s occurred between
Answer: Modernists and Traditionalists
Great Depression
Question: Where did farmers go during the Dust Bowl?
Answer: California
Question: Where did the Dust Bowl take place?
Answer: Mid-West/Great Plains
Question: The belief that Americans born and raised in the US were better than immigrants.
Answer: Nativism
Question: Who was blamed for the Great Depression?
Answer: Herbert Hoover
Question: What were the shanty towns, where all of the poor lived, called?
Answer: Hoovervilles
FDR
Question: The name of FDR's government programs
Answer: New Deal
Question: Programs like the CCC and WPA were primarily intended to help
Answer: The unemployed
Question: What word describes American foreign policy during the Great Depression
Answer: Isolationism/Neutral
Question: FDR tried to gain more power by adding additional what?
Answer: Supreme Court Justices
Question: What year was FDR elected?
Answer: 1932
World War Two
Question: Using a fixed amount of goods
Answer: Rationing
Question: What catapulted America into World War Two?
Answer: Pearl Harbor
Question: Whose rights were overlooked during World War Two?
Answer: Japanese-Americans
Question: To give in to prevent conflict
Answer: Appeasement
Question: What was the United States called for supplying weapons to the Allies
Answer: Arsenal of Democracy
Cold War
Question: What splits North and South Korea?
Answer: 38th parallel or Demilitarized Zone
(DMZ does not count)
Question: The easing of tension. Agreeing to disagree.
Answer: Detente
Question: Plan created by America to invest in countries to prevent them becoming communist
Answer: The Marshall Plan
Question: Which event brought the Cold War closest to World War Three?
Answer: Cuban Missile Crisis
Question: What was the name of the first satellite sent into space?
Answer: Sputnik