“He
Said”
Monumental
Events
That’sGreat!
“You’re
Naughty”
Presidents
A Picture is
worth 1000
words
“He Said” $100
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“America’s present need is not heroics, but
healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not
revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but
adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not
dramatic, but the dispassionate;… not
submergence in internationality, but
sustainment in triumphant nationality.”
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President Warren G. Harding
“He Said” $200
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Dorothy Parker, seated next to him at a
dinner, said to him, "Mr. __________, I've
made a bet against a fellow who said it was
impossible to get more than two words out
of you." His famous reply: "You lose."
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Silent Cal: President Calvin Coolidge
“He Said” $300
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“I put in six or seven hours of flying time
each day… My narrowest escape came at a
time when I was fretting over the lack of
action… Guns began barking behind me,
and sizzling tracers zipped by my head… At
least two planes were on my tail…”
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Eddie Rickenbacker
“He Said” $400
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“The Hi De Ho Man… that’s me!”
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Cab Calloway
“He Said” $500
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“I believe everything in the Bible should be
accepted as it is given there. Some of the
Bible is given illustratively. For instance”
‘Ye are the salt of the earth.’ I would not
insist that man was actually salt, or that he
had flesh of salt, but it is used in the sense
of salt as saving God’s people.”
William Jennings Bryan (Scopes Trial)
Monumental Events $100
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The depicted event
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The Scopes Monkey Trial (1925)
Monumental Events $200
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A Gibson girl would have been astonished
that this kind of gal chopped off her hair!
A Flapper
Monumental Events $300
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The Great Migration
Monumental Events $400
Sacco
and Vanzetti, 1920-1927
Monumental Events $500
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The event depicted below
Women’s
Suffrage, 19th Amendment (1920)
That’s Great! $100
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The one of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s greatest
books.
The Great Gatsby
That’s Great! $200
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The greatest percentage of unemployment
(stats exclude farmers) during the Great
Depression.
25% (1935)
That’s Great! $300
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Nicknamed “Satchmo” and “Pops,” he
wasn’t just a good trumpeter, he was great!
Louis Armstrong
That’s Great! $400
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This “great” tariff established the highest
protective tariff in United States history.
Designed to protect American farmers and
manufacturers from foreign competition. Yet, it
had the opposite effect by reducing the flow of
goods into the U.S. Thus, other countries couldn’t
earn U.S. Currency to purchase goods.
The Hawley-Smoot Tariff
That’s Great! $500
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On October 24, 1929, the stock market took
a plunge. But the worst was yet to come.
On this day, the bottom fell out and the
nation’s confidence went with it.
Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929
“You’re Naughty” $100
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Disliked by many, he was viewed by many
as a scapegoat and the culprit of the Great
Depression. Hoovervilles soon popped up
all over the country.
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President Herbert Hoover
“You’re Naughty” $200
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The “fall guy” in the Teapot Dome Scandal
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Secretary of Interior Albert Fall
“You’re Naughty” $300
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By 1924, their membership had reached 4.5
million (Huge population and many
politicians in Denver!)
 Ku Klux Klan
“You’re Naughty” $400
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The founder of the American Birth Control
League (which eventually became Planned
Parenthood).
 Margaret Sanger
“You’re Naughty” $500
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A good place to get a glass of gin in 1927
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Speakeasy
Presidents $100
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My vice presidents…
 John N. Garner
 Henry A. Wallace
 Harry S. Truman
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Presidents $200
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Woodrow Wilson
Presidents $300
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Elizabeth Ann is not my daughter. But, my
middle name is Gamaliel.
Warren G. Harding
Presidents $400
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In 1921, while vacationing at Campobello
Island, New Brunswick, he contracted an
illness, at the time believed to be polio,
which resulted in total and permanent
paralysis from the waist down. After he
became President, he helped to found the
National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
(now known as the March of Dimes).
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Presidents
$500
He said, “Every time we find solutions outside
of government, we have not only strengthened
character, but we have preserved our sense of
real government.”
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Herbert Hoover
“A picture is worth a 1,000 words” $100
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The radio priest
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Father Coughlin
“A picture is worth a 1,000 words” $200
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The Dust Bowl
“A picture is worth a 1,000 words” $300
The
Bonus March
“A picture is worth a 1,000 words” $400
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Name that movie:
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Gone with the Wind, (1939)
“A picture is worth a 1,000 words” $500
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Her most famous photograph
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Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother
“He
Said”
ABCs
More
ABCs
Vocab
Hey stupid,
this is on
the test!
Multiple
Choice
“He Said” $200
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Shortly after being shot, this expiring man
reportedly said, "I wonder why he shot me.“
He died two days later of internal bleeding,
this leaving posterity to only wonder at
what could have been during the
Presidential election of 1936.
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Huey Long
“He Said” $400
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More like “raisins”, this angry author stated
that he was “completely partisan. Every
effort I can bring to bear is.. At the call of
the common working people.”
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John Steinbeck
“He Said” $600
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End Poverty in California (Epic)
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Upton Sinclair
“He Said” $800
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The final part of the theory is that the
Talented Tenth or the "exceptional men" of
the black race would be the ones to lead the
race and save it from its criminal problems
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W.E.B. Du Bois
“He Said” $1000
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Deficit Spending would be like “priming
the pump”
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British Economist John Maynard Keynes
ABCs $200
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In 1933, it protected bank deposits up to
$5,000. Today, accounts are protected up to
$100,000.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
ABCs $400
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Oh… those 6 million poor little piggies.
This agency aided farmers and regulated
crop production.
 Agricultural Adjustment Administration
ABCs $600
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The right to collectively bargain, join
unions, and fair labor practices. One of the
first reforms of the Second New Deal was
the passage of the National Labor Relations
Act. But it is usually referred to by this
more common name.
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The Wagner Act
ABCs $800
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It regulated the stock market
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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
ABCs $1000
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These young men, ages 18-25, built roads,
developed parks, planted trees, and helped
stop soil erosion. $25 of their monthly
wage was automatically sent home to the
worker’s family.
Civilian
Conservation Corps (CCC)
More ABCs $200
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Electricity anyone?
Tennessee
Valley Authority (TVA)
More ABCs $400
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The initials HOLC? Your home could sure
use some help.
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Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)
More ABCs $600
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Created public works jobs on government
projects.
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Public Works Administration (PWA)
More ABCs $800
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Provided job training for unemployed
young people and part-time jobs for needy
students.
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National Youth Administration (NYA)
More ABCs $1000
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He headed the Federal Relief
Administration (FERA) and gave $500
million to be dispensed through state relief
organizations. He insisted that unemployed
needed jobs, not direct handouts, thus
persuading FDR to creat the Civil Works
Administration (CWA) that would employ 4
million people.
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Harry Hopkins
Vocab
$200
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Spending more money than you’ve got.
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Deficit Spending
Vocab
$400
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Fiery extremist critics with plans of action.
The early 20th century American social
critic and humorist H. L. Mencken, known
for his "definitions" of terms, defined a this
term as "one who will preach doctrines he
knows to be untrue to men he knows to be
idiots."
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Demagogues
Vocab
$600
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Placing a small proportion down when
paying for and item or making financial
investments.
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Buying on the margin
Vocab
$800
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The place where nobody wants to be during
WWI.
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No Man’s Land
Vocab
$1000
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The nickname was derived from the
location where the smuggler kept his stash.
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Bootleggers
“Hey Stupid, this is on the test!
$200
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Provided a pension for retired workers and
their spouses and aided people with
disabilities. This alphabet agency sure
helped out grandpa.
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Social Security Administration (SSA)
Hey Stupid, this is on the test!
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$400
The United States disclaimed any
intention of annexing Cuban territory
in the
a)
Gentlemen's Agreement
b)
Foraker Act.
c)
Platt Amendment
d)
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
e)  Teller
Teller Amendment
Amendment
Hey Stupid, this is on the test!
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$600
“The Big Fellow” as he liked to be called
headed a criminal empire and was worth
and estimated $100,000,000.
 Al
Capone
Hey Stupid, this is on the test!
$800
In addition to playing college football
and professional baseball, he was the
winner of the pentathlon and decathlon
in the 1912 Olympics.
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Jim Thorpe
Hey Stupid, this is on the test!
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$1000
Why didn’t the Senate approve the
Treaty of Versailles and enter the League
of Nations?
It committed League members to defend the
independence and territory of all other members
Multiple Choice $200
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Why did Colombia reject the American offer to lease
a zone in Panama to build a canal?
A)
Germany submitted a better financial arrangement
B)
Columbia felt they could build and operate the canal
themselves
Colombia felt
felt that
$10$10
million
offer offer
was too
c)C) Colombia
thatthethe
million
was
small.
too Colombia
small. rejected American policy regarding canal
D)
tolls
E)
America decided instead to pursue a Nicaraguan
route
Multiple Choice $400
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Dollar diplomacy" refers to
A)
European investment in American finance
B)
construction of an inter-oceanic canal to assist world
trade
C)
paying local rebel armies to overthrow governments
that disagreed with the U.S
D) encouragement
encouragementofofAmerican
Americantrade
trade and investments
D)
investmentsin
such
areas
LatinAmerica
Americaand
andthe
the Far
Far East
in such
areas
as as
Latin
East
E)
maintaining the right of transit across Panama
Multiple Choice $600
This army doctor successfully conducted
experiments in 1900 that showed yellow fever
came from the bite of a species of mosquito
A) Josiah Strong
B) Michael Funk
 C)
C) Walter
Reed
Walter Reed
D) William Dearborne
E) Isaiah Quiad
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Multiple Choice $800
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A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Historians credit the Democratic victory in the
1916 presidential election to
the Republicans losing their status as majority
party
Wilson's
supporters'
skillful
use of
B)
Wilson's
supporters'
skillful
usethe
oftheme
the "He
Kept Us
Out
of War.“
theme
"He
Kept
Us Out of War."
Wilson insisting on congressional support for war
preparations.
the Republicans failing to take advantage of
Wilson's Mexican policy
the unpopularity of the Sussex pledge.
Multiple Choice $1000
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Which of the following statements is most consistent
with the Supreme Court's ruling in Schenck v. U. S.?:
A)
the government's seizure and operation of the
railroad industry is a constitutional use of its wartime
powers.
B) the government can restrict the First Amendment
B)
the government can restrict the First Amendment
right
righttotofree
freespeech
speechinintime
timeofofwar
war
C)
the government's prohibition of the manufacture and
sale of distilled liquor is a constitutional use of its
wartime powers.
D)
the government does have the power to compel
young men to serve in the armed forces during time
of war.
E)
Communists have rights too
Final Jeopardy
The Harlem
Renaissance
Give one example of a place
where Black entertainers
might perform, and list four
Black celebrity figures or
leaders from the 1920s.
Give one example of a place
where Black entertainers
might perform, and list four
Black celebrity figures or
leaders from the 1920s.
Places: The Apollo Theater, The Cotton Club
Zora Neale Hurston (theater)
James Weldon Johnson (Lawyer, “Lift every voice and sing”)
Marcus Garvey (Universal Negro Improvement Association)
Claude McKay (novelist, poet, Jamaican immigrant)
Langston Hughes (poet)
Paul Robeson (actor)
Louis Armstrong (Trumpeter, singer, musician)
Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington (jazz pianist and composer)
Bessie Smith (female blues singer)
W.E.B. Du Bois (politician)