1920's and 1930

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1920's and 1930s
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Womens suffrage
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• The movement to pass federal legislation allowing
  women to vote
• The movement has been active since the 1840s,
  led by famous women including Susan B. Anthony
  and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, but it did not
  succeed on a national level until the Progressive
  Era, when the 19th Amendment (1920) was passed

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Flappers
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• Stereotype of stylish, emancipated woman of the
  Jazz Age slim with bobbed hair, a short skirt,
  rolled down silk stockings, make up, and
  sometimes a cigarette
• Actually comprised a very small portion of the
  population, but still a widely used image in
  advertisements
• Symbolized the 1920s

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Harlem Renaissance
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• Broad movement of cultural innovation in the
  African American community during the 1920s
• Saw introduction of important black novelist,
  poets, and artists, as well as the introduction
  of jazz, lending the decade the name Jazz Age

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Jazz age
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• Nickname of the freewheeling 1920s
• Derived from the development of jazz music, which
  was free and improvisational, as was much of the
  age.
• The era was characterized by prosperity, the
  popularization of entertainment (movies, radio,
  national magazines, sports, and the automobile),
  greater reliance upon science, and expanded
  opportunity for women

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Prohibition
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• Banned production, sale, and consumption of
  alcoholic beverages
• Enacted by the 18th Amendment (1919) and repealed
  by the 21st Amendment (1933)

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Scopes Monkey Trial
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• 1925 trial in Tennessee
• Tried school teacher John T. Scopes for violating
  state law against teaching evolution
• Received national attention as a conflict between
  the nations growing reliance on science and the
  reassertion of religious fundamentalism
• William Jennings Bryan came from Nebraska to
  prosecute Scopes
• Famous defense attorney Clarence Darrow came from
  Chicago to defend him on behalf of the newly
  formed American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
  Scopes lost but was only fined 1
• WGN radio carried the trial live

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Dust Bowl
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• Nickname for the terrible conditions that made
  farming in the Great Plains during the Great
  Depression nearly impossible
• Caused primarily by extended drought and wind,
  the removal of natural vegetation, and over
  farming during World War I
• Worst in Oklahoma and northern Texas
• People who left their land and headed to
  California were known as Okies
• Fictionalized in John Steinbecks The Grapes of
  Wrath

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Black Tuesday
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• The day of the stock market crash (October 29,
  1929) that marked the beginning of the Great
  Depression

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Great depression
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• The prolonged and powerful economics recession
  that gripped the United States beginning with the
  stock market crash of Black Tuesday and
  extending until World War II
• Led to urban unemployment as well as widespread
  farm foreclosures because of the dust bowl
• Led to the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt and
  the implementation of New Deal legislation that
  expended the role of government

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Okies
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• Nickname for farmers who migrated west to
  California because of the dust bowl conditions
• Fictionalized in John Steinbeck's novel, the
  Grapes of Wrath .

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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• President from 1932 to 1945 (when he died in
  office, leaving behind Vice President Harry S.
  Truman to become President)
• Democrat
• Instigated the New Deal to help America recover
  from the Great Depression
• First president to break the two term tradition
• Led the United States into World War II
• Helped create the United Nations
• Organized the Manhattan Project to develop the
  atomic bomb
• First president to appoint a woman to his cabinet
• Distant cousin of Theodore Roosevelt

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New Deal
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• Domestic agenda of Franklin D. Roosevelt to help
  lift America out of the Great Depression in the
  mid 1930s
• Broken into the First New Deal (1933-1934) and
  the Second New Deal (1935-1936) both which were
  broad programs regulating business and industry,
  providing employment through public works
  programs, and aiding farmers
• Permanently changed the role of government in
  American society
• First New Deal was broader in scope but not as
  ambitious in government spending
• After the Supreme Court struck down parts of the
  First New Deal, Roosevelt tried to pass his
  Court Packing plan
• Second New Deal was more liberal and included
  significantly more government spending

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First Hundred Days
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• Special Congressional session called by Franklin
  D. Roosevelt just after his inauguration
• Initiated New Deal legislation (First New Deal)
  during this session
• Most productive congressional session in history

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Social Security
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• Government funded social program created by
  Franklin D. Roosevelt during the New Deal (1935,
  the 2nd New Deal)
• Provides payments to support the elderly, widows,
  orphans, and disabled
• Expanded during the Great Society
• Still an existing and important program in the
  United States

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Wagner Act
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• Legislation of the New Deal (1935, Second New
  Deal) signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt that
  legalized labor unions, offered protection to
  strikers, and regulated working conditions
• Written to replace sections of the National
  Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) of the First New
  Deal
• Large parts of the Wagner Act were repealed by
  the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act during the
  presidency of Harry S. Truman.

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Court-packing plan
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• Franklin D. Roosevelt's attempt to put more
  judges friendly to his New Deal agenda on the
  Supreme Court by adding six additional justices
  to the Court
• Widely unpopular and legislatively unsuccessful,
  the plan indirectly achieved its goals as the
  Court reversed its course and ruled in favor of
  the legislation it reviewed from the Second New
  Deal

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Eleanor Roosevelt
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• Wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Changed the role of the first lady by being
  politically active
• Was the conscience of the New Deal
• Served as the first U.S. representative to the
  United Nations

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• What amendment banned the manufacturing, sale,
  and distribution of liquor?
• 21st
• 17th
• 18th
• 19th

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• Which of the following Constitutional amendments
  illustrated the success of the suffrage campaign?
  
• 21st Amendment
• 19th Amendment
• 17th Amendment
• 4th  Amendment

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• What music style started in New Orleans but moved
  north in the 1920's?
• jazz
• swing
• blues
• rock-n-roll

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• What is the term for the 1920's female who smoke,
  drank, and wore make-up?
• Flapper
• Gibson Girl
• Floozy
• Clara Bow

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• What organization terrorized non-protestant and
  non-white people in the U.S. during the 1920's?
• Fascists
• Nazi party
• Temperance Movement
• Ku Klux Klan

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• The development of literature, art, and music in
  the 1920s brought about in the African American
  community are collectively known as what?
• The Harlem Renaissance
• The Hudson River School
• The Transcendentalist movement
• The Jazz Age

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• All of the following characterized the Jazz Age
  of the 1920s EXCEPT
• a freer, faster-paced lifestyle in American
  cities
• economic fear and concern
• great opportunity for women outside of the home
• an increase in the number of colleges open to
  women

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• Who became the baseball icon of the 1920's?
• Ty Cobb
• Hank Aaron
• Cal Ripken, Sr.
• Babe Ruth

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• Which of the following technological innovations
  contributed most to the new, fast-paced lifestyle
  popular in the 1920s?
• the automobile
• the phonograph
• the plane
• the telegraph

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• By the 1920s most Americans owned an automobile. 
  This was due to Henry Ford's revolution in the
  factories with the invention of the
• steam engine
• assembly line
• railroad engine
• 40 hour work week

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• Who rose to power as Italy's dictator in the
  1920's?
• Francisco Franco
• Benito Mussolini
• Adolf Hitler
• Joseph Stalin

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• Who made the first successful trans-continental
  flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927?
• Amelia Earhart
• Rudolph Valentino
• Charles Lindbergh
• Neil Armstrong

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• Why did many people invest what money they had in
  the stock market?
• to help our economy
• to save their money but make a little interest
• it was a source of entertainment
• to get rich quick

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• What was the long-term effect of the Smoot-Hawley
  Tariffs and other protectionist trade measures?
• They had little impact on the health of the
  global economy.
• They sparked retaliatory tariffs in European
  nations, crippling world trade.
• They stimulated European leaders to form the
  European Economic Community.
• They improved the ability of American products to
  compete in foreign markets.

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• What is the nickname for the day the stock market
  crashed?
• Great Depression    
• Black Friday
• Black Tuesday
• Red Wednesday

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• What was the month, day, year of the stock market
  crash?
• October 29, 1929
• October 26, 1939
• October 24, 1929
• September 1, 1939 

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• Which is NOT a reason why the stock market
  crashed?
• President Hoover did not react with federal
  action.
• Federal Reserve System left too much money in
  circulation.
• World trade stopped due to the rise in tariffs.
• Citizens borrowed money they did not have to
  purchase stock and could not repay the loan when
  the market crashed.

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• Which is NOT an effect of the stock market crash
  on the United States?
• people migrated looking for  jobs
• new banks opened
• people became homeless
• unemployment increased

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• What group of people made up the Bonus Army who
  marched to Washington D.C. asking Congress for
  their money early?
• Government employees who lost their jobs during
  the Depression
• World War I veterans
• Factory workers
• Civil War veterans

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• Which of the following was NOT a major
  contributor to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s?
• sustained drought
• removal of natural vegetation
• over farming of land to meet increased demands
  during World War One
• abandonment of farms by people moving west

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• How did Hoover and Roosevelt react to the U.S.
  economy and people during the Great Depression?
• Hoover and Roosevelt both took the "hands-off"
  approach to government intervention in the
  economy.
• Hoover and Roosevelt both instituted effective,
  direct government programs to help the economy.
• Hoover started government intervention programs,
  but Roosevelt stopped them.
• Hoover believed the businesses needed to react
  while Roosevelt believed federal government
  intervention was the only way to help the economy.

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• Who won the election of 1932?
• Herbert Hoover
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Calvin Coolidge
• Warren G. Harding   

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• Who said, "We have nothing to fear, but fear
  itself?"
• Herbert Hoover
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Woodrow Wilson
• Harry S. Truman

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• Which president was NOT a Republican president?
• Franklin D.  Roosevelt
• Herbert Hoover
• Warren G. Harding
• Calvin Coolidge

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• The sweeping legislative agenda that Franklin D. 
  Roosevelt proposed to aid Americans during the
  Great Depression was called what?
• Great Society
• New Deal
• Fair Deal  
• Square Deal

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• Which program employed thousands of people to
  complete a variety of jobs such as building
  construction, creating murals, and recording
  folklore?
• Social Security Act
• Works Progress Administration (WPA)
• Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

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• Which program provides pension for the elderly,
  orphaned, or injured?
• Works Progress Administration (WPA)
• Social Security Act
• Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

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• Which program paid farmers subsidies to not plant
  crops or raise more animals so prices would
  increase as we use up the surplus?
• Works Progress Administration (WPA)
• Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
• Social Security Act

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• Which program ensures savings deposits in all
  member banks?
• Social Security Act
• Works Progress Administration (WPA)
• Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

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• Which is NOT an  "R"  from Roosevelt's New Deal
  legislation?
• reform the laws so this does not happen again
• reinstate the banks so people can get their money
• recovery measures to stimulate the economy
• relief to the unemployed