The Roaring Twenties Jacovin Houston Question Preview (ID: 44346)


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Prosperity
a) the state of being prosperous.
b) wealthy, well off, state of well being
c) a successful, flourishing, or thriving condition, especially in financial respects; good fortune.
d) flourishing, or thriving condition, especially in financial respects; good fortune.

Nativism
a) the theory or doctrine that concepts, mental capacities, and mental structures a
b) views that favor native born people over immigrants
c) the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against
d) a return to or emphasis on traditional or local customs,

Immigration
a) the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.
b) the place at an airport or country's border where government
c) officials check the documents of people entering that country.
d) when people come into a new land from another land

migration
a) seasonal movement of animals from one region to another.
b) movement of people to a new area or country in
c) order to find work or better living conditions
d) movement from one part of something to another

Laissez Faire
a) a policy or attitude of letting things t
b) s take their own course, without interfering.
c) Govt stays out of business
d) abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market.

Buying on margin-
a) Buying on margin is the purchase of an asset by using leverage and borrowing
b) borrowing money from a broker to purchase stock
c) the balance from a bank or broker
d) The collateral for the borrowed funds is the marginable securities

Introduction of auto on society
a) changed daily lives, increased a national economy as people began to travel
b) which all property is publicly owned and each person works
c) is paid according to their abilities and needs
d) mid 19th century:

Red Scare
a) The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants
b) the federal government in 1919 and 1920
c) the United States after the Russian Revolution.
d) atmosphere of panic related to Communism

Communism
a) political theory derived from Karl Marx,
b) advocating class war and leading to a society
c) a political and economic system in which the major productive resources are owned by the public or the state, and wealth is d
d) which all property is publicly owned and each person works

Flapper
a) jklqdkndjak
b) ndependent woman of the 20’s-short hair, heavy makeup, smoked, drank, danced
c) slj,nj;aknd
d) adkhbdjlnbdv jln

Stock Market
a) where shares of publicly held companies are bought and traded
b) a stock exchange.
c) vast array of investors and traders who buy and sell the stock, pushing the price up or down
d) those whose perceived value (in the form of the share price) will rise.

Charles Lindberg
a) United States aviator who in 1927
b) the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean (1902-1974
c) A. Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Lindbergh, Lucky Lindy Example of: aeronaut, airman, aviator, flier, flyer.
d) someone who operates an aircraft.

The Great Migration
a) The Great Migration was the relocation of more than 6 million
b) African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest
c) West from about 1916 to 1970
d) Driven from their homes by unsatisfactory economic opportunities and harsh segregationist laws

18th Amendment
a) In contrast to earlier amendments
b) the Amendment set a one-year time delay before it would be operative
c) the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquours”
d) Its ratification was certified on January 16, 1919

Marcus Garvey
a) advocated emigration of black Americans to Africa.
b) 1887–1940, Jamaican black-rights activist in the U.S.
c) without value, effect, consequence, or significance
d) being or amounting to nothing; nil; lacking; nonexistent.

Scopes Monkey Trial
a) trial served its purpose of drawing intense national publicity,
b) three-time presidential candidate, argued for the prosecution, while withe people
c) Scopes was found guilty and fined $100 (equivalent to $1395 in 2017),
d) who said the word of God as revealed in the Bible took priority over all human knowledge

Harlem Renaissance
a) political, cultural and social contribution by African Americans
b) An African-American cultural movement of the 1920s
c) 1930s, centered in Harlem, that celebrated black traditions,
d) the black voice, and black ways of life.

Jazz
a) a type of music of black American origin characterized by improvisation,
b) play or dance to jazz music.
c) improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm
d) Popular Music form of the 20’s influenced by African Americans

lynching
a) especially by hanging, for an alleged
b) killing of someone(usually black males)
c) especially by hanging, for an alleged
d) offense with or without a legal trial

Flapper
a) independent woman of the 20’s-short
b) hair, heavy makeup, smoked, drank, danced
c) a fashionable young woman intent
d) enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior.

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