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During the Great Depression unemployment averaged ___.
15%
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During the Great Depression unemployment averaged ___.
15%
What was the significance of The Jazz Singer?
It was the first feature-length movie with a talking sound track.
The ___ Act separated commercial banks and investment banks.
Glass-Steagall
Many talented Black writers, poets, and artists contributed to the ___.
Harlem Renaissance
The _ Amendment, ratified in 1920, secured suffrage rights for women.
Nineteenth
The 1930s were the Golden Age of _.
Radio
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
During the Great Depression unemployment averaged ___. | 15% |
What was the significance of The Jazz Singer? | It was the first feature-length movie with a talking sound track. |
The ___ Act separated commercial banks and investment banks. | Glass-Steagall |
Many talented Black writers, poets, and artists contributed to the ___. | Harlem Renaissance |
The _ Amendment, ratified in 1920, secured suffrage rights for women. | Nineteenth |
The 1930s were the Golden Age of _. | Radio |
The ___ stock market crash took place on October 29, 1929. | Black Tuesday |
___ did not share in the prosperity of the Roaring Twenties. | Farmers |
The __ Dam was built under the authorization of President Hoover. | Boulder |
The Hawley-Smoot bill contributed to the Great Depression by significantly reducing trade. | Tariff |
The Great Depression was ___. | international in scope |
Former Secretary of Commerce and Republican ___ won the 1928 Presidential election. | Herbert Hoover |
___ is the composer of 'God Bless America'. | Irving Berlin |
What year did the Stock Market Crash occur? | 1929 |
By keeping rates high, the Federal Reserve contributed to the Great Depression. | interest |
Sinclair Lewis was the First American to win a Nobel Prize for __. | literature |
Susan B. Anthony | led efforts to gain the right for women to vote |
Charles Lindbergh | first aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean |
John Scopes | teacher who faced trial for teaching evolution in a public classroom |
Marcus Garvey | founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) |
___ wrote lyrics for 'The Black National Anthem'. | James Weldon Johnson |
'I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a ___ for the American people.' | new deal |
The Grapes of Wrath by ___ tells the tale of an Oklahoma family relocating to California as a result of drought. | John Steinbeck |
The first New Deal was comprised of 15 acts passed during the ___. | Hundred Days |
The Great Plains are a(n) _ plain with little surface water and few trees. | arid |