2. Presidents Vocab #1 Vocab #2G.D.Roaring 20’s 10 20 30 40 50 40 30 20 10 50 40 30 20 10 50 40 30 20 10 50 40 30 20 10

3. Topic 1 – 10 Points QUESTION: Document giving sole rights to make/sell an invention. ANSWER: patent

4. Topic 1 – 20 Points QUESTION: When unions negotiate with management for workers as a group. ANSWER: collective bargaining

5. Topic 1 – 30 Points QUESTION: Settlers who acquired free land from the government. ANSWER: homesteaders

6. Topic 1 – 40 Points QUESTION: The right to decide your own form of government. ANSWER: self-determination

7. Topic 1 – 50 Points QUESTION: Giving in to aggression in order to avoid war. ANSWER: appeasement

8. Topic 2 – 10 Points QUESTION: An area which neither side controls. This vocabulary term also refers to what splits North Korea from South Korea. ANSWER: demilitarized zone

9. Topic 2 – 20 Points QUESTION: When nations compete to build more powerful weapons. Think the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. ANSWER: arms race

10. Topic 2 – 30 Points QUESTION: Unable to read and/or write. ANSWER: illiterate

11. Topic 2 – 40 Points QUESTION: Buying on credit. ANSWER: installment buying

12. Topic 2 – 50 Points QUESTION: The name given to Southern whites who opposed secession. ANSWER: scalawags

13. Topic 3 – 10 Points QUESTION: What were the 3 major causes of the Great Depression? ANSWER: overproduction buying on margin The Stock Market Crash of 1929 (or Black Tuesday)

14. Topic 3 – 20 Points QUESTION: What was the unemployment rate in the United States during the Great Depression? ANSWER: 25%

15. Topic 3 – 30 Points QUESTION: What was Franklin D. Roosevelt’s three goals under his New Deal? (Hint: 3 R’s) ANSWER: Relief Recovery Reform

16. Topic 3 – 40 Points QUESTION: What was the major argument against FDR’s New Deal? ANSWER: it gave too much power to the federal government.

17. Topic 3 – 50 Points QUESTION: What were 3 positive effects of FDR’s New Deal? ANSWER: it employed millions of jobless people. it reformed the stock market it improved working conditions it built dams and bridges it preserved millions of acres in national parks

18. Topic 4 – 10 Points QUESTION: What 2 reasons made President Woodrow Wilson so unpopular following World War I.? ANSWER: a failing economy (a recession) The Treaty of Versailles

19. Topic 4 – 20 Points QUESTION: Who was the first person/pilot to fly nonstop across the Atlantic? ANSWER: Charles Lindbergh

20. Topic 4 – 30 Points QUESTION: What were both anarchists and communists referred to during the Roaring 20’s? ANSWER: radicals

21. Topic 4 – 40 Points QUESTION: Who were three social critics of the Roaring 20’s? ANSWER: F. Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway Sinclair Lewis

22. Topic 4 – 50 Points QUESTION: What was the first commercial radio station in the United States? ANSWER: KDKA

23. Topic 5 – 10 Points QUESTION: What President gave the Emancipation Proclamation speech with the ultimate goal of freeing slaves that seceded? ANSWER: Abraham Lincoln

24. Topic 5 – 20 Points QUESTION: What President wanted to return the United States to a period of “normalcy” at the beginning of the Roaring 20’s? ANSWER: Warren Harding

25. Topic 5 – 30 Points QUESTION: Which President placed a naval blockade on Soviet ships during the Cuban Missile Crisis? ANSWER: John F. Kennedy

26. Topic 5 – 40 Points QUESTION: Which President’s greatest achievement was the passage of the Interstate Highway Act, which linked all parts of the United States with a system of freeways. ANSWER: Dwight D. Eisenhower

27. Topic 5 – 50 Points QUESTION: Which Progressive President wanted to reform bad trusts, and sided with strikers? ANSWER: Theodore Roosevelt