Modern US History Jeopardy Review

Unit 4: The 20s and the 30s

Jeopardy Rules

• Three groups compete against each other• Complete the team handout for the order

in answering questions• Groups cannot help their members• ANSWER in the form of a QUESTION• The group with the most points when the

game is stopped or finished wins• If your group is talking or arguing – game

ends

Politics and

Business

Social and Culture

The New Deal

Great Depression

Key Terms

Final Jeopardy

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These were the payments of money that Germany had to give to Britain and France because it was responsible for starting World War I

What were reparations?

This was a system where businesses provided medical care and retirement pensions and enabled employees to buy stock and share profits

What is welfare capitalism?

This is when an economy slumps or slows down for a short period of time

What is a recession?

This was what President Roosevelt tried to do when the Supreme Court ruled many of his New Deal Programs unconstitutional

What is court-packing?

This is the term for replacing worker with machines to do the same jobs in a factory

What is automation?

The 18th Amendment to the US Constitution did this

What is prohibit the sale of alcohol in the US?

This legislation made the Emergency Quota Act a permanent law in the US

What was the National Origins Act?

Daily Double!How much will you wager?

This was the name of President Roosevelt’s program to bring the U.S. out of the depression

What was the New Deal?

This New Deal agency created electricity from the Great State of Tennessee’s main river

What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?

President Hoover declared this one-year break in Germany’s reparation payments in 1931 to save the German Republic from collapse and protect US investments in Germany

What was a moratorium?

This cause of the depression involved farmers growing too many things

What was overproduction?

This government policy of protecting local farmers and producers by taxing imports also helped cause the depression because it slowed trading between countries

What is a tariff?

This depression era government corporation guaranteed that peoples savings in banks would be paid if the bank failed

What was the FDIC?

This risky practice of a small cash down payment to buy stock led to the collapse of the stock market on Black Tuesday

What was buying stock on margin?

This is when banks took the land from farmers when farmers could not make loan payments

What is foreclosure?

This act provided unemployment benefits and retirement pensions when passed in 1935

What was the Social Security Act?

This act employed young men on public works projects such as the

Hoover Dam

What was the CCC or Civilian Conservation Corps?

This act regulated the securities and stock markets

What was the SEC or Securities and Exchange Commission?

Daily Double!

How much will you wager?

This administration made outright grants and gifts to states and cities

to distribute to locals in need

What was FERA or the Federal Emergency Relief Administration?

This act paid farmers to limit production

What was the AAA or Agricultural Adjustment Act?

Women that dressed like those seen here were called this

What were flappers?

Daily Double!

How much will you wager?

This was an explosion and rebirth of new black intellectuals and

artists such as Langston Hughes and Paul Roberson that occurred

during the 1920s

What was the Harlem Renaissance?

This was a general criticism with life in the 1920s by Americans

What was postwar disillusionment?

In this famous event conservative creationists put the idea of

evolution on trial

What was the Scopes Trial?

This was the general trend in educational enrollment in high

schools and universities during the 1920s

What was increasing?

Final Jeopardy!Topic: Foreign Policy

This was designed to enlist world opinion against aggressor nations such as Japan who had invaded China this nonrecogination policy

did not do what it was supposed to do against Japan

What was the Hoover-Stimson Doctrine?