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Chapter 7
1920's
Question | Answer |
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How did the assembly line improve Henry Ford's Model T? | He made more cars for less; workers got paid $5.00 |
How did the car change life in the US | 1. created new jobs2. Farmers carried crops to market3. Helped to get roads improved |
Romantic dramas thatwere often paid for by soap companies were called? | Soap Operas |
What failed because police had little success stopping bootleggers | Prohibition |
What was Jacob lawarence known for? | African american life and history |
How did the radio make athletes popular in the 1920's | Listen to games on radio |
During the1920's woemen moved from factory to work in the? | Office |
Why did farmers have difficulty paying off debts? | Crop prices dropped |
Stock prices fell and many investors sold their stock duringg what? | the Great Depression |
People who moved from one place to another to harvest crops were called? | Migrant workders |
What part of the New Deal provided monthly payments to the elderly, disabbled, and enemployed? | Social Security |
Which amendment outlawed the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages | The 18th |
A rapid rise in prices is called | tarriffs |
Which president established governement programs to help the country during the Great Depression | Hoover |
What were the 3 causes of the Great Depression | 1. Stock market crash2. banks closed-people owed money3. high rarriff |
Many children quit school to help their families during what? | The Great Depression |
Many people became what as an effect of the Dust Bowl | Homeless,migrannt |
Who wrote about the hardships faced by migrant workers | Jon Steinbeck |
What is complete ban on the sale of alcohol? | prohibition |
The condition of being out of work is called | unemployed |
What musical form is influencec by African American musical traditions | Jazz |
A long period without rain is called a | drought |
whod wasthe first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean | Amelia Earheart |
Who was nicknamed "Satchmo" and was afamous jazz musician | Louis Armstrong |
Whatis it called whe you borrow money | loan |
the period when African Americans used writig jazz, painting to share their ideas | the Jazz Age |
The 1st women to fly across the atlantic | Amelia Earhart |
High winds that scattered the soil in the Great Plains was called | The Dust Bowl |
Who built the 1st Model T? | Henry Ford |