Unit 6 Matching Quiz

This poet, ​ (a)   , often wrote about the real life of ​ (b)   , that connected to many Americans during the Harlem Renaissance. While at the same time entertainers like ​ (c)   , the trumpet player, and ​ (d)   , the singer, often played at the ​ (e)   in front of numerous white patrons.

• Langston Hughes
• African Americans
• Louis Armstrong
• Bessie Smith
• Cotton Club

Match the following idea with the correct immigrant limitations/laws.

Groups:

(a) National Origins Act

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(b) Emergency Quota

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(c) Chinese Exclusion Act

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(d) Xenophobia

• Only allowed to let in 3% of the 1910 US census

• Foreigners will change your culture and your politics

• Only allowed if you are from North or Western Europe

• Extension of nativist ideas

• You can immigrate to America if you are from a civilized country

• Chinese people in the country currently cannot be a citizen

• irrational fear of foreigners

• No Chinese people allowed in the US

• No exceptions, once the percentage is met

Reorder the following causes of the Great Depression.

• Re-lack of business regulations by the Federal Government

• Black Tuesday

  10/29/29

• Federal Reserve loan debacle resulting in lack of money flowing through the country post stock market crash

• Farmer and industrial overproduction

Match the following cause of the Great Depression with its most accurate description

• Federalism

• Election of 1920/End of Progressivism

• Over Production

• Margin and Speculation purchasing

• Wage Gap

• Too many crops and too many home appliances made at one time

• Crash of the Stock Market

• Distribution of Power between the Federal and State governments

• Lessening of Government intervention

• Poverty rampant in the United States

The purpose of advertisements in the 1920's had one purpose. What was that purpose

• Try to get you to spend your money to stimulate the economy

• Try to tell you why you NEED to purchase the product

• Try to tell you why you NEED to stay away from the product

• Try to encourage you as the consumer to play your part to get the US out of the Great Depression

Place the correct description and characteristics of different people in the 1920s

Groups:

(a) Women

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(b) Immigrants

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(c) African Americans

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(d) "Real Americans"

• Sacco and Vanzetti

• Jackie Robinson

• Birth of a Nation

• Xenophobes

• cutting hair short

• Nativists

• Dressing "scandalous"

• Palmer

• Smoking in public for the first time

• Finally making money, middle class

• Immigration Quotas Pushed

• Created new musical genre that everyone LOVES

• Cant let these people in the country

• Moved to cities for jobs in the North

• Got to be Communist

• Got to be anti-American

Match the following idea and concept with its correct explanation

• Bootleggers

• Groups that infiltrated America and took control of the illegal alcohol sales often through violent and extremely illegal activities

• Speakeasies

• Illegal bars that supplied citizens with prohibited alcohol in secret

• Harlem Renaissance

• Government involved and encouraged terror of communism

• Red Scare

• Increased awareness of African American culture and the blending in of African American culture to American Pop Culture

• Organized Crime / Mafia

• Illegal producers of alcohol, who love to run from the police

Match the following amendments with their corresponding explanation

• 18th Amendment

• The government issuing a ruling that makes the production and consumption of alcohol illegal in the United States

• 21st Amendment

• The government allowing for protection from unreasonable search and seizure, except in times where the government feels in the best interest of national security... like the Palmer Raids

• 1st Amendment

• The only amendment that has ever withdrawn the effects of a previous amendment, therefore making that previous amendment null and void

• 4th Amendment

• Government allowing for individual freedoms such as speech, religion, and press

• 16th Amendment

• The government withdrawing funds from person wages to fund government programs... ie TAXES

Match the following explanation for each of the IMPORTANT New Deal Programs

• Fair Labor and Standards Act

• Pool of money that is removed from every American's check to provide the following: retirement pensions, unemployment benefits, disability compensation

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

• Jobs provided to men between the ages of 18 and 25, and labor was fully expected to be completed outside with the planting of trees and fighting of forest fires in an effort to conserve the environment

• Social Security Administration

• Government subsidies and money provided to farmers

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Billions of dollars spent on millions of Americans jobs to rebuild the American infrastructure that much is still being used in daily life today

• Works Progress Administration

• Mandatory minimum wage provided to workers, mandatory overtime pay for any work week over 40 hours, and the crack down on children working in dangerous jobs

Match the following criticism of FDR's New Deal with it's corresponding complaint.

• FDR could become a dictator

• FDR has been elected 4 times... what are we doing?!?!?

• You are dependent on the government.

• The government is taking everyone's money and providing it to others!

• Removing Checks and Balances

• FDR wanting to add new Supreme Court Judges to ensure the passing of his New Deal Policies

• Socialism

• The government is paying everyone's pay check and is everyone's boss. They are the only ones supplying you with the means to live.