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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