Postwar Problems

The Red Scare

Rascally Repubs

African Americans

Minority Groups

P & PLife in the Twenties

Creative Splurge

Potpourri (T/F)

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Jeopardy!!

100• Why did unemployment rise after the First

World War?

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200• Why did wages fall following the First

World War?

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300• Why did goods and services cost more

following the First World War?

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400• What year was well known for labor

strikes?

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500• What was used in order to bridge the gap

between low wages and expensive goods and services?

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100• Why were strikes unsuccessful in 1919?

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200• Why did the Red Scare occur in the United

States?

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300• What was the name of the leader of the

Communist Party in Russia?

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400• What was the name of the leader of the

Socialist Party in the United States?

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500• These raids, named after the attorney

general of the United States, arrested suspected communists and/or deported them.

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100• Who won the election of 1920?

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200• Who won the election of 1924?

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300• Who won the election of 1928?

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400• What were the economic policies of the

Republican Presidents?

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500• DAILY DOUBLE

• Why did the Republicans control the White House during the 20’s and what happened that the Republicans survived?

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100• Why did African Americans move north

between 1910 and 1930?

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200• What was one effect of African Americans

moving northward?

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300• Under Woodrow Wilson’s encouragement,

what group grew to a membership of 5 million by 1923?

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400• Name two ways that African Americans

defended their rights during the 1920’s.

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500• Describe Black Nationalism.

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100• By 1920, what percentage of the nation’s

population was foreign born?

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200• What did Congress do to limit immigration?

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300• What types of jobs did Mexican Americans

get when they moved north?

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400• How did American Indians fight back

against the government taking their land?

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500• What was the biggest way that Mexican

Americans became adjusted to American life?

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100• About what percentage of American homes

had electricity by 1930?

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200• What was the business practice of

simplifying a process by mastering each of its tasks?

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300• Who was the person who instituted the

assembly line in his automobile factory?

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400• How did automobiles change family life in

the 1920’s?

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500• Name two ways that consumers were

impacted by the new business practices of the 1920’s.

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100• When did Prohibition occur?

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200• Name the gangster that prohibition allowed

to gain power?

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300• Name three of the new forms of mass

entertainment.

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400• Define Revivalism.

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500• Define Fundamentalism.

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100• Jazz as a music form came from what

earlier music form?

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200• Why did jazz move north?

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300• The Harlem Renaissance involved what two

forms of entertainment?

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400• Name one of the two authors from the Lost

Generation (1920’s).

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500• DAILY DOUBLE

• Who was Frank Lloyd Wright?

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100• True of False: The Scopes trial allowed

evolution to be taught in the classrooms of Tennessee.

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200• Who was Jim Thorpe?

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300• True or False: Charles Lindbergh was an

Olympic hurdler and a three sport athlete in college.

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400• True or False: Installment plans allowed

consumers to buy expensive items on credit.

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500• True or False: Henry Ford was able to

control his workers because he paid them so much.

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