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1920's -- Duram -- History A
Question: Coolidge was a Republican President, what characterized his presidency?
Answer: He promoted big business and opposed social aid.
Question: What is a tariff?
Answer: A tax on imported goods.
Question: What were Russian communists called?
Answer: Bolshevik
Question: What was the most popular music during the 1920's?
Answer: Jazz
Question: What is a Model T?
Answer: The first automobile to be produced on an assembly line. It became a very affordable car for the average person.
Question: What is a Speakeasy?
Answer: An illegal bar or club.
Question: What is installment buying?
Answer: Buying on credit - caused many people to go into big debt.
Question: What are Isolationists?
Answer: Want to stand alone, limit treaties and trade.
Question: Harding was a Republican President. What is something that stood out about his administration?
Answer: His term as President was marked by corruption.
Question: What was the Charleston?
Answer: A popular dance.
Question: Who was Babe Ruth?
Answer: Famous baseball player
Question: What is immigration?
Answer: People coming to live in the US from other countries.
Question: Mickey Mouse...........
Answer: One of the first cartoon characters, star of Steamboat Willie
Question: Who were Sacco and Venzetti?
Answer: Italian immigrants who were wrongly convicted of murder and executed. This is an example of the discrimination against immigrants.
Question: 18th Amendment ---19th Amendment ---
Answer: Made alcohol illegal - Prohibition
Gave women the right to vote
Question: What are quotas (immigration)?
Answer: A system for limiting the number of immigrants who may enter a country.
Question: Who were Flappers?
Answer: Women in the 20's who drank alcohol, danced, smoked and dated.
Question: Hoover was a Republican President - what is his presidency known for?
Answer: He responded ineffectively to the 1929 Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression.
Question: Who was Al Capone?
Answer: Bootlegger, gangster, controlled Speakeasies. Basically controlled Chicago.
Question: Describe the Red Scare
Answer: US people were afraid Communists would try to take over the US. Anti-Communists laws were made.
Question: What is bootleg liquor? What were the people who sold it called?
Answer: Illegal liquor. People who made and sold it were called bootleggers.
Question: Describe the Protestant Work Ethic.
Answer: Work = Good, to not work = Bad. Handouts would cause people to become lazy.
Question: Describe the Harlem Renaisance.
Answer: Harlem was a neighborhood in New York, many Blacks came here from the south bringing their music, art, plays, fashion and more.
Question: What is the KKK? and who were they opposed to?
Answer: Ku Klux Klan -- Blacks, Jews, Catholics & immigrants
Question: Who was Charles Lindbergh?
Answer: Started as an Air Force pilot. Became the first person to fly non-stop from the US to France.