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SUSSH 18-16
Q: What new form of
entertainment was available to
have in the home in the 1920s?
 A: the radio
Q: After World War I, Americans
became paranoid about the spread
of communism. What was this
paranoia called?
 A: The Red Scare
Q: What technique allowed
Henry Ford to mass produce
the automobile?
 A: the assembly line
Q: What type of music became
very popular in the 1920s in both
African American communities and
white communities?
 A: Jazz
Q: What was the name of the
raids against communist
immigrants in the 1920s?
 A: Palmer Raids
Q: What artistic and literary
movement took place in the
African American community in the
1920s?
 A: the Harlem Renaissance
Q: Who was the most famous
jazz musician of the 1920s?
 A: Louis Armstrong
Q: What term means buying stock
for only a portion of what it costs
and taking out a loan to pay the
rest?
 A: buying stock on the margin
Q: In general, did farmers
experience prosperity in the
1920s?
 A: No
Q: What is it called when people
were reluctant to buy products but
producers kept producing them?
 A: Overproduction/Underconsumption
Q: Who was a famous poet
from the Harlem Renaissance?
 A: Langston Hughes
Q: What was the combination of
droughts and windstorms that hit
the Midwest in the 1930s called?
 A: Dustbowl
Q: What was one human cause
of the Dustbowl?
 A: poor farming practices
Q: What is the date October 29,
1929 commonly referred to as?
 A: Black Tuesday
Q: Who was the president when
the stock market crashed?
 A: Herbert Hoover
Q: Did Hoover provide direct relief
to the people during the Great
Depression?
 A: No
Q: When unemployed people lost
their homes, they lived in little
shacks in makeshift villages. What
were these called?
 A: Hoovervilles
Q: What was the name of FDR’s
wave of programs that were
intended to fight the Depression?
 A: the New Deal
Q: What two groups did
Eleanor Roosevelt try to help
through social reform?
 A: Women and Minorities
Q: What New Deal program built
hydroelectric dams and provided
electricity to a poor region?
 A: the Tennessee Valley Authority
Q: What New Deal program
provided benefits for the elderly,
those with disabilities, and
children?
 A: the Social Security Act
Q: Who was one of FDR’s biggest
critics that wanted to implement a
“Share-Our-Wealth” program
instead of the New Deal?
 A: Huey Long
Q: What New Deal program
created a board to monitor
management practices and protect
workers’ rights to join unions?
 A: the Wagner Act
Q: What did FDR do to attempt
to gain power over the judicial
branch?
 A: the court-packing scheme
-He wanted to change the number of justices on the
Supreme Court from 9 to 15 and appoint judges who
would pass his New Deal programs
Q: How did the Wagner Act
affect unions?
 A: Union strength increased: more workers joined
unions because of the protection of the Wagner Act
Q: What act prohibited the sale of
arms to countries at war or
countries involved in a civil war?
 A: the Neutrality Act
Q: What New Deal program
provided jobs to young single men
working in national parks?
 A: Civilian Conservation Corps