FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CHAPTER

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FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CHAPTER

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Question 1: Describe the major economic events of the 1920s

Answer:

Econ boom;middle&upper class thrived;engineer,banker,&executive directed economy-earned all the money;idle money was put in stock market-earn more money;economic instability due to:unequal distribution of wealth,consumer debt,want for cars and appliance

Question 2: Describe the membership and ideology of the 2nd Ku Klux Klan

Answer:

native born white gentile Americans; disliked anyone who didn't follow their own values; aliens: Italians, Russians, Jews, Catholics; blacks who didn't "know their place"; women who practiced the new morality; aliens who refused to conform

Question 3: Discuss US economic growth in terms of sectors of the economy

Answer:

electric industry grew almost as fast as the car industry; radio broadcasting and movies were popular; production of light metals (ex; aluminum and magnesium); chemical engineering-synthetics-cellophane; corporation was very dominate

Question 4: Describe the participants and results on the Scopes Trail

Answer:

Bryan- prosecutor headed by Thomas Stewart; Clarence Darrow - Defense; Darrow Won; Scopes was convicted guilty; although the case settles nothing - the anti-evolution law was left in tact

Question 5: Describe the areas of economic weakness in the 1920s

Answer:

railroads- poorly managed; coal industry- petroleum and natural gas replaced it; cotton decreased-use of rayon and synthetic fibers; agriculture-farm exports fell; urban workers remained steady; organized labor unable to advance

Question 6: Discuss why the automobile industry grew in the 1920a

Answer:

due to rapid growth; increase in production; marketing strategies (advertising); annual model changes

Question 7: Evaluate the support for the results of Prohibition

Answer:

S:rural effect of the anti-saloon league,Methodist&baptist clergy-due to the urban progressive concern of drunkenness. R:led to decline in drinking;drinking became fashionable in the upper class;bootleggers smuggled liquor;eventually repealed in 1933 Question 8: Evaluate the candidates and their supporters in the election of 1928

Answer:

Al Smith: D- rejected by rural democrats, won the support of the north and midwest immigrants; Herbert Hoover: R- won the support of the old-line democrats, stood for efficiency and individualism; Hoover Won

Question 9: Describe the factions within the Democratic party in the 1920s

Answer:

Rural south and west- stood for prohibition, fundamentalism, and the Klan. North and Midwest; immigrants and their descendants, Catholics and Jews

Question 10: List the prerequisites of the Second Industrial revolution

Answer:

Mass production; consumer goods; the moving assembly line; electric motors

Question 11: Describe the changes for women and children in the 1920s

Answer:

women vote-19amendment;women still cooked,cleaned&raised children; young women rebelled w\self expression:flapper girls,short hair,shorted dresses;women had leisure time;birth rate dropped-smaller family; youthful revolt-lack of working - sex and drinking

Question 12: Explain the events of the Red Scare

Answer:

growing turn to communism among american radicals; strike in Seattle; police strikes in Boston; violent strike in iron&steel industry; series of bombings; series of raids; sent aliens back to Russia

Question 13: Describe the scandals of the Harding Administration

Answer:

Daugherty became involved in questionable deals; Fall was involved in the Teapot Dome Scandal (2 oil promoters gave $4 million so that Fall would give them leases in naval oil resources) Question 14: List the Major authors prominent in the Literary Flowering in the 1920s

Answer:

T.S. Eliot; Ernest Hemingway; Ezra Pound; Scott Fitzgerald; Sinclair Lewis; HL Mencken

Question 15: Detail the Republicans legislative accomplishments of the 1920s

Answer:

tariff&tax policy: Fordney McCumber Tariff Act/ Lessened business taxes; taxed the rich; reduced govt spending; revenue acts reduced the burden of taxation; new bureaus of the commerce to make American industry more efficient