Trashketball Chapters 20-22

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TrashketballChapters 20-22
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1. What were Jim Crow laws and in what part of
the country were they used?
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2. How did Prohibition contribute to the growth
of organized crime?
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3. Describe the economic policies of Presidents
Harding and Coolidge.
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4. Describe the plight of farmers as a group
during the 1920s.
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5. What does buying stock on margin mean, and
what was the effect on the stock market?
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6. Describe the effect of the automobile in the
1920s.
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7. Discuss the effect of Henry Fords innovative
manufacturing techniques on manufacturing in the
United States.
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8. What was the condition of Americas economy
after World War I?
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9. Which amendment to the Constitution repealed
Prohibition?
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10. Describe the national economy during
President Coolidges administrations.
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11. Discuss the Scopes Trial in Tennessee.
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12. Why did urban Americans value education more
than rural Americans?
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13. Why did many Americans become nativists
during the 1920s?
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14. How did Henry Ford reduce the price of his
cars?
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15. Describe the Great Migration.
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16. Describe jazz.
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17. What was the theme of much of the literature
of the Harlem Renaissance?
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18. Describe the New Woman of the 1920s.
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19. Describe the major differences between urban
and rural lifestyles in the 1920.
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20. Describe the American movie industry during
the 1920s.
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21. How did farmers contribute to the problems
that led to the Dust Bowl?
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22. Describe urban unemployment at the beginning
of the Great Depression.
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23. How did European countries react to the
Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
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24. Who is Louis Armstrong?
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25. Describe the Teapot Dome Scandal.
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26. Describe the business cycle.
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27. Describe the factors that contributed to the
spread of the Great Depression overseas.
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28. Describe the factors that hid the economic
problems in the 1920s.
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29. What event occurred on Black Tuesday?
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30. Why did so many banks collapse at the
beginning of the Great Depression?
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31. Describe how the Great Depression impacted
African Americans.
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32. How did President Hoover respond to the Great
Depression?
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33. What was the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, which was passed by Congress under
President Hoover?
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34. On what did some Americans blame the Great
Depression?
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35. Why did some people oppose the New Deal?
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36. Where did many of the Dust Bowl migrants go?
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37. What did Congress hope businesses would do
when they established the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation?
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38. What is the Securities Exchange Commission?
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39. How did Congress deal with the banking crisis?
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40. What were the three goals of the New Deal?
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41. What was the purpose of the Agricultural
Adjustment Act?
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42. Describe the court packing scheme of FDR.
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43. Describe the radio program War of the
Worlds.
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44. How did Americans escape their concerns
during the 1930s?
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45. Who was the first female Cabinet member?
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46. How many terms did FDR serve?
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47. What is collective bargaining?
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48. What was the Rural Electrification
Administration?
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49. What was the Social Security Act?
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50. Who were some of the opponents of FDR and the
New Deal?