US History A Final questions and answers
Prohibition Correct Answer: The prevention by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol
Speakeasy Correct Answer: An illegal bar or nightclub
Bootlegger Correct Answer: An alcohol smuggler
Fundamentalism Correct Answer: A form of a religion, especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that
upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture.
Clarence Darrow Correct Answer: The lawyer who defended John T. Scopes
Scopes Trial Correct Answer: A case against John T. Scopes and his teaching against fundamentalism
Flapper Correct Answer: A fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting
conventional standards of behavior.
Double Standard Correct Answer: A rule or principle that is unfairly applied in different ways to different
people or groups
Charles Lindbergh Correct Answer: The pilot who flew across the Atlantic
George Gershwin Correct Answer: Merged traditional elements with American jazz thus creating a new
sound
Georgia O'Keeffe Correct Answer: Produced intensely colored canvases that captured the grandeur of
New York
Sinclair Lewis Correct Answer: The first American to win a Nobel Prize in literature. Wrote the Babbitt
F. Scott Fitzgerald Correct Answer: Described the 1920's as the "jazz age."
Edna St. Vincent Millay Correct Answer: Wrote poems celebrating youth and a life of independence and
freedom from traditional constraints
Ernest Hemmingway Correct Answer: A novelist known for his strong influence on the 20th century
fiction
Zora Neale Hurston Correct Answer: An American novelist who portrayed the struggles of African
american struggles
James Weldon Johnson Correct Answer: A poet, lawyer, and NAACP executive secretary.
Marcus Garvey Correct Answer: Believed that African Americans should create their own society
, Harlem Renaissance Correct Answer: A literary and artistic movement celebrating African American
culture
Claude McKay Correct Answer: A poet, novelist, and a Jamaican immigrant whose militant verses urged
blacks to resist prejudice and discrimination
Langston Hughes Correct Answer: A poet who described the difficult lives of working class African
Americans
Paul Robeson Correct Answer: A dramatic actor and son of a one time slave
Louis Armstrong Correct Answer: The most famous jazz musician who was a part of the Creole Jazz Band
and later Fletcher Henderson's band
Duke Ellington Correct Answer: A famous jazz pianist and composer
Bessie Smith Correct Answer: The most famous vocalist of the decade. A female blues singer
Price Support Correct Answer: The government would buy surplus crops at guaranteed prices and sell
them on the world market
Credit Correct Answer: An arrangement in which consumers agreed to buy now and pay later for
purchases
Alfred E. Smith Correct Answer: The democrat who ran against the republican Hoover in 1928. Hoover
won.
Dow Jones Industrial Average Correct Answer: The most widely used barometer of the stock market's
health
Speculation Correct Answer: An involvement in risky business transactions in an effort to make a quick
or large profit
Buying on Margin Correct Answer: The buying of stocks by paying only a small percentage of the price
and borrowing the rest
Black Tuesday Correct Answer: The day the Stock Market crashed
Great Depression Correct Answer: A period lasting from 1929 to 1940, in which the US economy was in
severe decline and millions of Americans were unemployed
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act Correct Answer: A law enacted in 1930, that established the highest protective
tariff in US history, worsening the depression in America and abroad
Shantytown Correct Answer: Towns consisting of makeshift houses due to umemployment
Soup Kitchen Correct Answer: A place where free or low cost food is served to the needy
Prohibition Correct Answer: The prevention by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol
Speakeasy Correct Answer: An illegal bar or nightclub
Bootlegger Correct Answer: An alcohol smuggler
Fundamentalism Correct Answer: A form of a religion, especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that
upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture.
Clarence Darrow Correct Answer: The lawyer who defended John T. Scopes
Scopes Trial Correct Answer: A case against John T. Scopes and his teaching against fundamentalism
Flapper Correct Answer: A fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting
conventional standards of behavior.
Double Standard Correct Answer: A rule or principle that is unfairly applied in different ways to different
people or groups
Charles Lindbergh Correct Answer: The pilot who flew across the Atlantic
George Gershwin Correct Answer: Merged traditional elements with American jazz thus creating a new
sound
Georgia O'Keeffe Correct Answer: Produced intensely colored canvases that captured the grandeur of
New York
Sinclair Lewis Correct Answer: The first American to win a Nobel Prize in literature. Wrote the Babbitt
F. Scott Fitzgerald Correct Answer: Described the 1920's as the "jazz age."
Edna St. Vincent Millay Correct Answer: Wrote poems celebrating youth and a life of independence and
freedom from traditional constraints
Ernest Hemmingway Correct Answer: A novelist known for his strong influence on the 20th century
fiction
Zora Neale Hurston Correct Answer: An American novelist who portrayed the struggles of African
american struggles
James Weldon Johnson Correct Answer: A poet, lawyer, and NAACP executive secretary.
Marcus Garvey Correct Answer: Believed that African Americans should create their own society
, Harlem Renaissance Correct Answer: A literary and artistic movement celebrating African American
culture
Claude McKay Correct Answer: A poet, novelist, and a Jamaican immigrant whose militant verses urged
blacks to resist prejudice and discrimination
Langston Hughes Correct Answer: A poet who described the difficult lives of working class African
Americans
Paul Robeson Correct Answer: A dramatic actor and son of a one time slave
Louis Armstrong Correct Answer: The most famous jazz musician who was a part of the Creole Jazz Band
and later Fletcher Henderson's band
Duke Ellington Correct Answer: A famous jazz pianist and composer
Bessie Smith Correct Answer: The most famous vocalist of the decade. A female blues singer
Price Support Correct Answer: The government would buy surplus crops at guaranteed prices and sell
them on the world market
Credit Correct Answer: An arrangement in which consumers agreed to buy now and pay later for
purchases
Alfred E. Smith Correct Answer: The democrat who ran against the republican Hoover in 1928. Hoover
won.
Dow Jones Industrial Average Correct Answer: The most widely used barometer of the stock market's
health
Speculation Correct Answer: An involvement in risky business transactions in an effort to make a quick
or large profit
Buying on Margin Correct Answer: The buying of stocks by paying only a small percentage of the price
and borrowing the rest
Black Tuesday Correct Answer: The day the Stock Market crashed
Great Depression Correct Answer: A period lasting from 1929 to 1940, in which the US economy was in
severe decline and millions of Americans were unemployed
Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act Correct Answer: A law enacted in 1930, that established the highest protective
tariff in US history, worsening the depression in America and abroad
Shantytown Correct Answer: Towns consisting of makeshift houses due to umemployment
Soup Kitchen Correct Answer: A place where free or low cost food is served to the needy
