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What is a flapper? |
Rebellious women - move forward 1 space |
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When was the 19th amendment adopted? |
1920 - move forward 2 spaces |
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Did women begin to wear more or less clothes in the early 1900s? |
Less - move forward 1 space |
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When could women vote in all elections? |
1920 - move forward 2 spaces |
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Define demographics |
Population statistics (race/income) - move forward 1 space |
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How many people were at school in 1930? |
4.4 million - move forward 2 spaces |
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Where did African Americans move in the early 1900s? |
To the North - move forward 1 space |
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Define barrio: |
Spanish-speaking neighborhood - move forward 1 space |
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Did suburbs grow or shrink in the 1900s? |
Grow - move forward 1 space |
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Why did morals change in 1920? |
People desired to be heroes - move forward 2 spaces |
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How much money was the prize for flying from New York to Paris? |
$25,000 - move forward 3 spaces |
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When did Amelia Earhart fly across the Atlantic? |
1928 - move forward 2 spaces |
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Who was a sport hero in the 1920s? |
George Herman "Babe" Ruth - move forward 1 space |
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Where did filmmakers move to in 1900s? |
Hollywood - move forward 1 space |
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Mass _____ |
Media - move forward 1 space |
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How many tickets were sold a week in theaters in early 1900s? |
80 million - move forward 3 spaces |
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Did the amount of newspaper sold in early 1900s increase or decrease? |
Increase - move forward 1 space |
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Who was Guglielmo Marconi? |
Italian physicist - move forward 3 spaces |
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Which people came up with jazz? |
African Americans - move forward 1 space |
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How much air time on the radio was dedicated to jazz? |
2/3 of air time - move forward 3 spaces |
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When was the Jazz Age? |
1920s - move forward 2 spaces |
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How many clubs in Harlem in 1920s? |
About 500 - move forward 3 spaces |
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Who was George Gershwin? |
He composed "Rhapsody in Blue" - move forward 3 spaces |
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Who was Edward Hopper? |
Painter - move forward 3 spaces
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Who was Sinclair Lewis? |
Modern Writer - move forward 1 space |
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Define: Lost Generation |
Group of people disconnected from cultures and values - move forward 2 spaces |
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Define: Harlem Renaissance |
African American literary awakening - move forward 2 spaces |
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What was the 18th amendment? |
Prohibition of alcohol - move forward 2 spaces |
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Name a goal of the 18th amendment |
No abuse by drunkeness; no saloons; no accidents from alcohol - move forward 2 spaces |
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Define: Bootlegger |
Those who illegally drank (usually with flasks) - move forward 1 space |
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Define: Speakeasies |
Illegally opperrated bars - move forward 1 space |
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How many bombs were let off in Chicago? |
157 - move forward 3 spaces |
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Who made $60 million/year from bootlegging? |
Al Capone - move forward 1 space |
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Teaching what in school caused conflicts? |
Religion - move forward 1 space |
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Define: fundamentalism |
Stated set of beliefs - move forward 1 space |
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What year was the Scopes Trial? |
1925 - move forward 2 spaces |
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What was the Great Migration? |
Blacks moving North - move forward 2 spaces |
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When was the Red Summer? |
1919 - move forward 2 spaces |
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Who revived the KKK? |
Colonel William J. Simmons - move forward 3 spaces |
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How many reported lynchings in 1929? |
10 - move forward 3 spaces |
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Where was Marcus Garvey from? |
Jamaica - move forward 3 spaces |
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When was Sheppard-Towner Act passed? |
1921 - move forward 2 spaces |
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What does ERA stand for? |
Equal Rights Amendment - move forward 2 spaces |
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What year did Jeanette Rankin win an election? |
1916 - move forward 3 spaces |
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Who flew "The Spirit of St. Louis"? |
Charles Lindbergh - move forward 3 spaces |
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Jack Dempsey played what sport? |
Boxing - move forward 2 spaces |
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Jim Thorpe played what sport? |
Football - move forward 3 spaces |
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Gertrude Ederle played what sport? |
Tennis - move forward 2 spaces |
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Who was Cecil B. Demille? |
Filmmaker - move forward 2 spaces |
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What was the first sound film? |
"The Jazz Singer" - move forward 2 spaces |
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Over 200 million copies of what were old? |
Saturday Evening Post - move forward 2 spaces |
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Who was Guglielmo Marconi? |
Physicist - move forward 2 spaces |
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Who was Duke Ellington? |
Composer/band leader - move forward 2 spaces |
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When were Louis Armstrong, George Gershwin, and Georgia O'Keefe beginning to get popular? |
1920s - move forward 1 space |
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Jazz was unpopular in Harlem - True or False? |
False - move forward 1 space |
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O'Neil, and James Weldon Johnson were _______ |
Writers - move forward one space |
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Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes lived in New York - True or False |
True - move forward one space |
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What did Clearence Darrow strongly support? |
Free speech - move forward 2 spaces |
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William Jennings Bryan was a fundamentalist - true or false? |
True - move forward 2 spaces |
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What was the collapse of stock markets in 1929 called? |
The Great Crash - move forward 1 space |
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What is a nation's business cycle? |
A span in which the economy grows then contracts - move forward 2 spaces |
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Name 3 of the 8 ripple effects of the crash of the stock market |
Risky loans hurt banks, consumer borrowing bank runs, bank failures, wiped out savings, cuts in production, rise of unemployment, and further cuts in production - move forward 2 spaces |
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How long did the Great Depression last? |
From 1929 - 1941 - move forward 1 space |
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How many shares were sold on Black Tuesday? |
16.4 million - move forward 2 spaces |
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What was the Daw Jones Industrial average? |
An average in stock prices of major industries - move forward 2 spaces |
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What do you call homeless shelters? |
Hoovervilles - move forward 1 space |
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What did they call the southern great plains region? |
The Dust Bowl - move forward 1 space |
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Where would farmers go to bid pennies on land and machines? |
Penny auctions - move forward 1 space |
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Which amendment repels prohibition? |
21st - move forward 1 space |
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When was the Hawley Smobt Tariff passed? |
1930 - move forward 2 spaces |
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How did government receive credit to a number of institutions? |
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation - move forward 2 spaces |
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The name of 20,000 WWII jobless vets and their families were called ______ |
Bonus army - move forward 2 spaces |
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What is GNP short for? |
Gross National Product - move forward 1 space |
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What is collateral? |
An item of value that a borrower agrees to forfeit to the tender if they can't repay the loan - move forward 2 space |
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Which term regulates money circulation and cuts interest rates to spur economic growth? |
Federal reserve system - move forward 2 spaces |
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What were severe storms during the dry years called? |
Black blizzards - move forward 1 space |
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Where in the US is the place where the Scottsboro Boys take place? |
Alabama - move forward 2 spaces |
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What were people called that witnessed the Depression in all parts of country firsthand called? |
Hobos - move forward 1 space |
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Another name for newspaper is _________________ |
Hoover blankets - move forward 2 spaces |
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What was the worlds tallest building at this time? |
Empire State - move forward 1 space |
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When was the Agricultural Marketing Act passed? |
1929 - move forward 3 spaces |
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What s the original name of the Hoover Dam? |
Boulder Dam - move forward 1 space |
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Which act discounted mortgage rates? |
Home Loan Bank Act - move forward 2 spaces |
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Who was John Maynard Keynes? |
A British economist - move forward 3 spaces |
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Who was General Douglas MacArthur? |
He was a general who used to drive marches out of Washington - move forward 3 spaces |
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What was Franklin Roosevelt's press-given nickname? |
FDR - move forward 1 space |
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What was Franklin Roosevelt's promise to the country in 1931? |
The New Deal - move forward 1 space |
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Who was Franklin Roosevelt's wife? |
Eleanor Roosevelt - move forward 1 space |
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Name the two men running for presidency in 1932. |
Hoover and Roosevelt - move forward 1 space |
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Which people were negatively effected by the New Deal? |
African Americans and women - move forward 1 space |
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Name the major critics against the New Deal: |
American Liberty League - move forward 2 spaces |
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What is nationalism? |
Government takeover of banks and distribution of wealth - move forward 2 spaces |
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Who developed Share-Our-Wealth? |
Huey Long - move forward 2 spaces |
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Define Deficit spending |
Paying out more money from annual federal budget than government receives in revenues - move forward 2 spaces |
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Roosevelt wanted to change the number of supreme courts - true or false? |
True - move forward 1 space |
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James Agee was a painter - true or false? |
False - move forward 1 space |
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Define Recession: |
Period of slow business activity - move forward 2 spaces |
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Define National Debt |
Total money the federal government borrows - move forward 1 space |
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Define revenue |
income - move forward 1 space |
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When was Wagner Act passed? |
1935 - move forward 2 spaces |
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Congress of Industrial Organization was a _________ |
Coalition - move forward 2 spaces |
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What's a strike where workers don't work but do not leave the building? |
Sit-down strike - move forward 1 space |
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Congress aided artists with federal funds during Great Depression - true or false? |
True - move forward 1 space |
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Zora Neale Hurston was a writer - true or false? |
False - move forward 1 space |
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Radio was a major source of entertainment - true or false? |
True - move forward 1 space |
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Federal Art Project painted 2000 murals - true or false? |
True - move forward 1 space |
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The New Deal disappeared after the Great Depression - true or false? |
False - move forward 1 space |
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Many public buildings were made during the New Deal - true or false? |
True - move forward 1 space |
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When did congress and the social security administration amendments get passed? |
1939 - move forward 2 space |
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Eleanor was whose wife? |
Franklin Roosevelt's - move forward 1 space |
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The 20th Amendment gave women the right to vote - true or false? |
False - move forward 1 space |
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_______ Banking Act |
Emergency - move forward 2 spaces |
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When did "Bank Holiday" end? |
March 15 - move forward 3 spaces |
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What is FDIC? |
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation - move forward 2 spaces |
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Federal __________ Act |
Securities - move forward 2 spaces |
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What is SEC? |
Securities and Exchange Commission - move forward 2 spaces |
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What is FERA? |
Federal Emergency Relief Administration - move forward 2 spaces |
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Civil Works Administration was set up when? |
November 1933 - move forward 3 spaces |
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When was the Indian Reorganization Act passed? |
1934 - move forward 2 spaces |
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What was the primary New Deal agency? |
National Recovery Agency - move forward 2 spaces |
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What corporation was established to refinance home mortgage? |
Home Owners Loan Corporation - move forward 2 spaces |
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What organization was made to stabilize housing standards and conditions? |
Federal Housing Administration - move forward 2 spaces |
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Roosevelt was the first president to appoint a woman to his cabinet - true or false? |
True - move forward 1 space |
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FDR's wife's name was Edith - true or false? |
False - move forward 1 space |
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In 1935 FDR launched a new activity known as what? |
Second New Deal - move forward 1 space |
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The National Labor Relation Act is also known as: |
Wagner Act - move forward 2 spaces |
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The Wagner Act legalized what? |
Collective bargains and closed shops - move forward 3 spaces |
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What provided financial security? |
Social Security System - move forward 1 spaces |
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How did Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt restore the nation's hope? |
Promising the New Deal - move forward 1 space |
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A Time period when Roosevelt pushed programs to provide relief, create jobs, and stimulate economic recovery was known as what? |
Hundred Days - move forward 1 space |
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What was the government funded project to build new work areas? |
Public Works Program - move forward 1 space |
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What group was sent to maintain forest, beaches, and parks? |
Civilian Conservation Corporation - move forward 2 spaces |
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What did the Agricultural Adjustment Administration try to do? |
Raise farm prices - move forward 2 spaces |
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What did the TVA do? |
Create jobs in the country's least developed ares - move forward 2 spaces |
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What does UAW stand for? |
United automobile workers - move forward 2 spaces |
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Who wrote "Of Mice and Men"? |
John Steinbeck - move forward 1 space |
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Government fund written work was what? |
The Federal writers project - move forward 2 spaces |
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FITB _____ Security |
Social - move forward 1 space |
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PWA was led by Harold L. Ickles - true or false? |
True - move forward 1 space |
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Frances Perkins was US security of _______ |
Labor - move forward 2 spaces |
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Mary Bethane started a private school for who? |
African Americans - move forward 1 space |
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Which organization put mostly unskilled men to work? |
Work Progress Administration - move forward 2 spaces |
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Was there more than one New Deal? |
Yes - move forward 1 space |
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The organization that brought electricity to rural areas was what? |
Rural Electrician Administration - move forward 1 space |
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FITB National______ Relations Board |
Labor - move forward 2 spaces |
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What act raised income tax? |
Revenue Act of 1935 - move forward 2 spaces |
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Father Coughlin was a priest and what? |
Political leader - move forward 1 space |
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Reforming a bill is also known as a what? |
Court packing - move forward 2 spaces |
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What does AFLCIO stand for? |
American Federation of Labor Congress of Industrial Organization - move forward 2 spaces |
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What were the 3 parts of the meaning of communism? |
A single political party controlled the government, government owned all land, the needs of the country came before the needs of individuals - move forward 3 spaces |
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The United states faced a fear of communism and other political ideas during what? |
Red Scare - move forward 1 space |
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A policy called isolationism had americans avoiding blank and blank alliances with foreign countries |
Political and economic - move forward 2 spaces |
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What is disarmament? |
Nations of the world voluntarily give up their weapons - move forward 1 space |
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What is a quota? |
A numerical limit on immigrants of a certain ethnicity - move forward 2 spaces |
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What was the worst Hardings administrations scandal? |
Teapot Dome Scandal - move forward 2 spaces |
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How many nations pledged not to use the threat of war under the Kellogg Brand pact? |
Fifteen - move forward 2 spaces |
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Large amounts of spending by individuals helped develop a blank economy? |
Consumer economy - move forward 1 space |
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Customers given the right to make small payments on an item was called the what? |
Installment plan - move forward 2 spaces |
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What does GNP stand for and mean? |
Gross National Product and total amount of goods and services a country produces annually - move forward 2 spaces |
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What happens in an assembly line? |
Workers do specialized task in the construction of a final product - move forward 1 space |
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The new approach to labor relations became known as the what? |
Welfare capitalism - move forward 1 space |
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The climb in stock price and value encouraged what? |
Speculation - move forward 1 space |
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To attract the less wealthy stockbrokers allowed people to buy a fraction of stock which became known as what? |
Buying on margin - move forward 2 spaces |
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What was a major promise President Warren Harding made in his campaign? |
Return of normalcy - move forward 1 space |
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What does USSR stand for? |
Soviet Union or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - move forward 1 space |
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Vladmir Lennin was a leader of what country's government? |
Russia's - move forward 1 space |
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What court case decided the decision concerning enforcement of the Espionage act? |
Schenk vs US - move forward 2 spaces |
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Gitlow vs. New York concerned which amendments of the Constitution |
Fourteenth and first - move forward 2 spaces |
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The blank were attempts by the United States Department of Justice to arrest and deport radical leftists, especially anarchists, from the United States. |
Palmer Raids - move forward 1 space |
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Who were the two anarchist convicted of murder at a shoe factory? |
Sacco and Vanzetti - move forward 2 spaces |
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On September 9th which genera of officers went on strike to raise wages Fire Fighters, Police, or paramedics? |
Police - move forward 1 space |
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What does AFL and UMW stand for? |
American Federation of Labor and University of Mary Washington - move forward 2 spaces |
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The _______ was an attempt in 1924 to solve the reparations problem, which had bedeviled international politics following World War I and the Treaty of Versaille |
Dawes Plan - move forward 1 space |
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Name one of three names the Immigration act of 1924 is referred to as |
National origins act, Johnson-Reed act, Asian Exclusion Act - move forward 2 spaces |
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Who was the 30th president of the US? |
Calvin Coolidge - move forward 1 space |
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Laissez fair helped free transaction from what? |
Government - move forward 1 space |
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Who was the 31st president of the US? |
Herbert Hoover - move forward 1 space |
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What was Henry Fords most well known invention? |
Model T Automobile - move forward 1 space |
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Who headed the construction of the Empire State Building? |
John J. Raskob - move forward 2 spaces |
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Andrew W. Mellon came from a family of poverty - true or false? |
False - move forward 1 space |
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The _______ was a controversial plan in the 1920s to subsidize American agriculture by raising the domestic prices of farm products. |
The McNary–Haugen Farm Relief Act - move forward 2 spaces |
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You got drafted - move back 2 spaces and lose a turn |
The Great Depression hit - lose all of your money |
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You got hit by a model t - move back 2 spaces |
The Great Depression ended - move forward 2 spaces and gain $100 |
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Cut to minimum wage - lose all your money |
You got wounded in war - move back 2 spaces |
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Your mortgage got decreased - gain $100 |
Electricity is available at your house now - move forward 2 spots |
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You got a job at a factory - move forward 2 spaces |
Black Blizzard struck - lose a turn |
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A police caught you bootlegging - lose a turn |
You got promoted - gain $100 |
