FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH CHAPTER 25

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH CHAPTER 25

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Question 1: dale carnegie/ how to win friends and influence people

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a self help manual preaching individual initiative, was one of the best selling books of the decade.

Question 2: farmers holiday association

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formed by a group of unhappy farm owners, it endorsed the withholding of farm products from the market- in effect a farmers' strike, which although blockading several markets ended in failure.

Question 3: douglass mcarthur

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the army chief of staff, carried out the mission of assisting the police in clearing out buildings of marchers, himself and greatly exceeded the president's orders. He led many military factions in pursuit of the Bonus Army until the veterans fled in terr

Question 4: FDR

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governor of NY -- 5th cousin to Theodore Roosevelt --- wealthy family -- went to Harvard -- served as secretery of the navy -- was suave and conciliatory -- handicapped --came up with New Deal --- elected as a democrat President in 1932 --elected 4 times

Question 5: frank capra/ mr. deeds goes to town/ mr. smith goes to washington

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Capra wrote from his deep love for his adopted country and translated it into a populistic admiration for ordinary people. He contrasted the decency of small town America and the common man with what he considered the grasping opportunism of the city and

Question 6: life

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enormously popular photographic journal, began publication in 1936, had the largest readership of any publication in the U.S., devoted some attention to politics and economic conditions but was best known for stunning photographs of sporting and theater e

Question 7: the hindenberg

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a German zeppelin, it was the largest rigid aircraft ever built. During its second year of service, it went up in flames and was destroyed while landing at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Manchester Township, New Jersey, U.S., on 6 May 1937. Thirty-six peo

Question 8: orson welles/ war of the worlds

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an early science fiction novel which describes an invasion of England by aliens from Mars. It is one of the earliest and best-known depictions of an alien invasion of Earth, and has influenced many others, as well as spawning several films, a radio drama

Question 9: black tuesday

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It occurred on October 29, 1929, when 16,410,030 shares of stocks were sold in a save-who-may scramble. It marked the beginning of the Great Depression.

Question 10: walt disney/ mickey mouse/ snow white

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the 1930's saw the beginning of W. Disney's long reign as the champion of animation and children's entertainment, starting with short cartoons for theatres featuring Mickey Mouse, and eventually producing feature length animated films, like 1937's Snow Wh

Question 11: walker evans/ ben shahn/ margaret

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bourke- white/ dorothea lange produced memorable studies of farm families and their surroundings, designed to show the savage impact of a hostile environment on its victims, later devoting themselves to exposes of social injustice.

Question 12: herbert hoover

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He was the head of the Food Administration during World War I. He became the Secretary of Commerce and encouraged businesses to regulate themselves. Hoover was a Republican known for his integrity who won the election of of 1928. He had to deal with the G

Question 13: hawley smoot tarriff

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Congressional compromise serving special interest, it raised duties on agricultural and manufactured imports. It may have contributed to the spread of the international depression.

Question 14: dust bowl

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a series of dust storms (sometimes referred to as black blizzards) causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936 (in some areas until 1940), caused by severe drought conditions coupled with decad

Question 15: okies

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a term, dating from as early as 1907, denoting a resident or native of Oklahoma, these people traveled to California and other states during the Dust Bowl where they found slightly better conditions.

Question 16: john steinbeck/ grapes of wrath

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perhaps the most successful chronicler of social conditions in the 30's, it told the story of the Joad family, migrants from the Dust Bowl to California who encounter an unending string of calamity and failures, he offered a harsh portrait of the exploiti

Question 17: hoovervilles

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Name given to the makeshift shanty towns built in vacant lots during the Depression.

Question 18: bonus army

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A group of almost 20,000 World War I veterans who were hard-hit victims of the depression, who wanted what the government owed them for their services and "saving" democracy. They marched to Washington and set up public camps and erected shacks on vacant

Question 19: amos n andy/ dick tracy/ the lone ranger

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examples of the comedies/ entertainment programs or escapism Americans heard on the radio during the depression.

Question 20: gold diggers of 33/ marx brothers

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known as "screwball" comedies, designed to divert audiences from their troubles and often indulge their fantasies about quick and easy wealth.

Question 21: gone with the wind/ wizard of oz

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other enormously popular films of the 1930's, both were adaptations of popular novels.

Question 22: scottsboro case

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The case of the Scottsboro Boys arose in Scottsboro, Alabama during the 1930s, when nine black youths, ranging in age from twelve to nineteen, were accused of raping two white women, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, one of whom would later recant.

Question 23: reconstruction fincance corporation

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Created in 1932 to make loans to banks, insurance companies, and railroads, it was intended to provide emergency funds to help businesses overcome the effects of the Depression. It was later used to finance wartime projects during WW II.