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18 Cards in this Set
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People (for Matching):
Who was Nicola Sacco? |
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants convicted of murder in an unfair trial.
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People (for Matching):
Who was Babe Ruth? |
NY Yankee baseball great who became one of the most popular people in the country
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People (for Matching):
Who was Charles Lindbergh? |
pilot who was the first to fly solo (alone) across the Atlantic Ocean
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People (for Matching):
Who was Henry Ford? |
millionaire automaker who made use of the assembly line in his factories
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People (for Matching):
Who was Al Capone? |
gangster who controlled the illegal sale of alcohol during Prohibition
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What President said "The business of America is busness?"
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Calvin Coolidge
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The 1920s:
The '20s were a period of ______________________. |
business growth in which many new products were introduced (a consumer revolution) and people bought many products on installments.
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The 1920s:
What do you call the anti-immigrant feelings that many people had in the 20's? And what group used terror and fear against African-Americans and immigrants? |
nativism;
the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) |
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The 1920s:
What was the result of Prohibition? |
People continued to drink alcohol that was sold illegally by bootleggers (criminals). So, the U.S. later ended Prohibition.
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The 1920s:
Why were they called "The Roaring '20s"? |
It was an era of great economic and social change.
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The 1920s:
What trial represented a clash between new scientific ideas (evolution) and traditional religious ideas from the Bible? |
the Scopes "Monkey" Trial
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Great Depression:
When did it begin? |
when the stock market crashed
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Great Depression:
Who was president when it began? What did people call the shantytowns (villages of huts) where people who had lost their real homes lived? |
Herbert Hoover:
Hoovervilles |
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Great Depression:
What group of people was most affected by the Dust Bowl? |
farmers
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Great Depression:
In 1932, the U.S. elected a new president. Who was he? What did he call his program to deal with the problems of the Depression? |
Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR);
the New Deal |
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Great Depression:
What was one of the biggest problems? |
high unemployment (many people had lost their jobs)
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Great Depression/New Deal:
In many New Deal projects, the government built dams, bridges, and roads. What was an important goal of those projects? |
to put Americans back to work by creating jobs
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Great Depression/New Deal:
The system of Social Security was created. Who does it help? |
older, retired workers (by paying them a pension; $ they receive after retirement)
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