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Summer School 3rd
20s, 30s, and 40s
Question | Answer |
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This program invited guest workers from Mexico to help in agriculture and industry. | Bracero Program |
Native American tribe that assisted the military in sending and receiving messages. | Navajo Code Talkers |
Places where Japanese-Americans were held during World War II | Internment camps |
The Naval strategic oil reserve at Elk Hills was taken out of the Navy's control and placed in the hands of the Department of the Interior, which leased the land to oil companies. Several Cabinet members received huge payments as bribes. | Tea Pot Dome Scandal |
August 2, 1923 - President Harding died. Who took over? | Calvin Coolidge |
1919: the 18th Amendment outlawed the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors. | Prohibition |
Italian immigrants charged with murdering a guard and robbing a shoe factory. The trial lasted from 1920-1927. Convicted on circumstantial evidence, many believed they had been framed for the crime because of their anarchist and pro-union activities. | Sacco and Vanzetti |
Prosecution of Dayton, Tennessee school teacher for violation of the Butler Act, a Tennessee law forbidding public schools from teaching about evolution. | Scopes Trial (Monkey Trial) |
It was thecenter for black writers, musicians, and intellectuals | Harlem |
Black leader who advocated "black nationalism," and financial independence for Blacks, he started the "Back to Africa" movement. | Marcus Garvey |
He set the baseball record of 60 home runs in one season | Babe Ruth |