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SOL Review #3
A. Bruce History 7 SOL Review #3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are ways that electricity changed life? | Washing machines, stoves, pumps, lighting, radio, and communication. |
| Which amendment is the prohibition amendment? | 18th Amendment |
| What is prohibition? | time when it is illegal to manufacture, transport, or sell alcoholic beverages. |
| What were created as places for people to drink illegal alcohol? | Speakeasies |
| Who smuggled illegal alcohol and promoted organized crime? | Bootleggers |
| What group was in the Great Migration North? | African Americans |
| Why did African Americans move north? | No jobs in the south, discrimination, violence |
| Name the artist known for urban scenes and paintings of the Southwest. | Geogia O'Keefe |
| Who wrote about the Jazz Age of the 1920's? | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Who portrayed the strength of poor migrant workers during the 1930's? | John Steinbeck |
| Name 2 composers who wrote uniquely American Music. | Aaron Copland and George Gershwin |
| Name the painter who chronicled the experiences of the Great Migration North through art. | Jacob Lawrence |
| Name the poet who combined the experiences of African and American Cultural roots. | Langston Hughes |
| Name two Jazz composers. | Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong |
| Name a female blues singer popular during the 1920's. | Bessie Smith |
| Name three reasons for the Great Depression. | Overspeculation, collapse of the banking system, and high tariffs. |
| What is overspeculation? | Thinking that the price of stock is going to get very high, borrowing money that you cannot pay back. |
| What was the impact of the Great Depression? | Banks and businesses failed, no jobs, hungry, homeless, farmers hurt. |
| What president was responsible for the New Deal? | Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| Describe the New Deal. | Social Security, federal work programs, environmental jobs, farm help, and increased rights for labor. |
| What ended the Great Depression? | US involvement in WWII. |
| How were the Japanese Americans treated during the War? | Some served in the army, prejudice, and forced into internment camps. |
| Name the Causes of WWII. | Political instability, economic devastation, and the rise of fascism. |
| Describe the economic devastation of Europe. | Depression, war debt, inflation, and unemployment. |
| What is Fascism? | Total power is given to a dictator and individual freedoms are denied. |
| Name the three dictators (and their country) of WWII. | Adolf Hitler (Germany), Benito Mussolini (Italy), Hideki Tojo (Japan) |
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