UIL Social Studies 2022-2023 (copy)

October 29th

Black Tuesday was the largest sell-off of stocks in American history. The date of this event was ___, 1929.

John dos Passos

Novelist ____________ is best known for his books One Man's Initiation: 1917 (published in 1920), and Manhattan Transfer (published in
1925).

The RCA (Radio Corporation of America)

The Young Plan, which developed a program to settle Germany's World War I reparations debt, was designed by Owen D. Young, who was the founder of ___________.

Louis Brandeis

Which of these Associate Justices of the Supreme Court developed the "right to privacy" concept in a Harvard Law Review article (1890), and devoted time as an activist in the Zionist movement?

Margaret Sanger

She openly supported the concept of forced sterilization?

Bruce Barton

Brazil

Fordlandia was established as a company town which would provide a secure source of rubber to the Ford Motor Company. The town was established in 1928, but nearly abandoned by 1934. Where is Fordlandia - a town of about 3,000 residents - located?

Rudolph Valentino

__________ was an early star in Hollywood, known for The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, and The Son of the Sheik. He died tragically at the age of 31 in 1926.

1920

The phrase "return to normalcy [sic]" is most closely associated with the Presidential Election of ________.

Tax Evasion

Al Capone, the American gangster known as "Scarface" and the suspect most likely responsible for the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago (1929), went to prison for ___ in 1933.

France

The Art Deco Movement, which influenced architecture (The Empire State Building and The Chrysler Building) as well as everyday objects during the 1920's began in ___.

Damon Runyon

This American newspaperman and writer of short stories, ___, spent much of his career working for William Randolph Hearst. Two of his stories were the inspiration for Guys and Dolls, a Broadway musical which premiered in 1950.

Xenophobia

The revival of the KKK in the 1920's, the Palmer Raids, the 1921 Emergency Quota Act, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Sacco-Vanzetti case were all associated with ________________.

Steamboat Willie

Disney's first short film release was ___ (1928). It was the third film made; the first two films were previewed in theaters but were not picked up for release by a distributor.

Flagpole Sitting

Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly - a stunt actor and former sailor - became associated with ___ during the 1920's

Lee de Forest

The American inventor of the vacuum tube - a development which led to radio broadcasting - was ___________.

Washingtonians

The ____________ was a 19th century Temperance Society, founded by alcoholics, and focused on how alcoholism affected individuals rather than on how it impacted society as a whole.

Lothrop Stoddard

Which of these individuals contributed to the "yellow peril" concept, which depicted Asians as a threat to western society?

Allowed for the collection of income taxes

The 16th Amendment was passed to _______________.

Bruce Barton

This politician was a political opponent to Franklin D. Roosevelt; served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1937 to 1941; wrote books in support of "The American Dream" and middle-class values...

Buster Keaton

He was a silent film actor, director, and comedian known for his pokerfaced expression and his imaginative and often elaborate visual comedy.

Mary Elizabeth Tyler

____________ became active in the "better babies" movement as a volunteer hygiene worker in the 1910s. With Edward Young Clarke, she formed the Atlanta-based Southern Publicity Association, which promoted temperance and public health causes such as the Anti-Saloon League and Red Cross. Like Clarke and the second Klan's initial organizer William Simmons, she was active in fraternal organizations—in her case, in a women's auxiliary called the Daughters of America.

William Randolph Hearst

Known for his use of "yellow journalism" which helped to start the Spanish American War in 1898. The movie Citizen Kane was based on his life.

Oscar De Priest

__________was the first African American to be
elected to Congress in the 20th century as a Republican. During his three terms, he was the only African American serving in Congress.

Babbitt

Sinclair Lewis's satirical novel ______________ helped create a negative connotation for the term middle class.

Dorothy Parker

She was a poet, critic, short-story writer, one of the great "wits" of her era, friend to Robert Benchley and a member of the famed Algonquin Round Table. She was as close as America ever came to producing its own Oscar Wilde. Sample Poem: "Resume"—"Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live." When she did die, she donated her estate to the NAACP.

Washington

Known as the Armistice Day Riot, the Centralia Massacre was a violent and bloody incident that
occurred on November 11, 1919, in the state of ______________ during a parade celebrating the first
anniversary of Armistice Day.

California

The first motel, originally known as Milestone Mo-Tel was located in ______________, and the term "motel" was coined as a hybrid of the terms motor and hotel.

Nisei

______________ is the term for a second generation Japanese living in the Americas.

General Motors

____________ was founded in 1908 under the leadership of William C. Durant, who was eventually forced out and succeeded by Alfred P. Sloan Jr. in 1920.

Isidor Einstein

His book, Prohibition Agent No. 1, tells the tale of his career as an agent in the Federal Prohibition Unit.

Charles Michelson

___________, a journalist coined a phrase at the onset of the Great Depression naming the shanty towns that housed the homeless after President Herbert Hoover.

Volstead Act

The Act specified that "no person shall manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, furnish or possess any intoxicating liquor except as authorized by this act." It did not specifically prohibit the purchase or use of intoxicating liquors. Despite Wilson's veto, Congress overrode his veto.

Ub Iwerks

Steamboat Willie, Mickey Mouse's debut short film was designed and animated by ______________.

Jazz Age

Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong were most directly associated with which time period in US History.

"Front Porch"

Warren G. Harding ran a successful _______________ campaign from his hometown of Marion, Ohio during the 1920 election.

Harry Daugherty

U.S. attorney general and a member of Harding's corrupt "Ohio Gang" who was forced to resign in administration scandals.

Chicago Beer Wars

The most famous incident of the ___________ occurred on February 14, 1929, in the "Saint Valentine's Day Massacre," during which four assailants dressed as police officers executed seven members of the North Side Gang in a garage with "Tommy guns."

Henry Luce

His magazine empire included Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, Fortune.

Clarence Darrow

A famous American attorney, two of _________'s highest profile cases were the Leopold-Loeb murder trial and the Scopes Trial.

D. W. Griffith

____________ was an early American filmmaker who is often credited with turning film into an art form by pioneering new innovations. One of his most famous films was The Birth of a Nation (1915).

A. Philip Randolph

Which of the following figures is NOT part of the Harlem Renaissance? Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, A. Philip Randolph

East Asia

The Washington Naval Conference was held in Washington, D.C., between 1921 and 1922 to discuss ways to reduce tensions in what part of the world?

Thomas Edison

Invented by ______ in 1894, the vitascope is best described as a motion picture projector.

Carry Nation

Figure of the temperance movement; Advocated women's suffrage; famous for using a hatchet to destroy saloons.

Universal Negro Improvement Association

Marcus Garvey was a proponent of Black nationalism and founded the _________ in 1914.

Route 66

It was the first long-distance highway in the U.S. running from Chicago to Los Angeles.

Prohibition of alcohol and abstinence

What did Mary Hanchett Hunt campaign for in the 1920s?

A. Philip Randolph

Who led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first successful Black American labor union?

Francis Willard

____________ was a leader of the national Prohibition Party and the Women's Christian Temperance Union.

Bessie Smith

She was known as the "Empress of the Blues during the Harlem Renaissance.

Chicago White Sox

The ___________ players were involved in the 1919 scandal that planned to throw the World Series for money.

Piggly Wiggly

The first _____________ opened in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1916. It was the first self-service grocery store and the first to feature checkout stands, provide nationally advertised brands and price mark all items.

Miriam Ferguson

Who was the first female governor of Texas?

Pauline Sabin

_______________ was known for her role in repealing Prohibition.

Flappers

______________carefree young women with short, "bobbed" hair, heavy makeup, and short skirts. The flapper symbolized the new "liberated" woman of the 1920s. Many people saw the bold, boyish look and shocking behavior as a sign of changing morals. Though hardly typical of American women, the image reinforced the idea that women now had more freedom.

Someone who conforms

Based off a character in one of his novels, Sinclair Lewis is credited with coining the term "Babbitt." What does it mean?

Colorado

The Columbine Mine massacre took place in which state in 1927? Gov. William Adams refused to recognize the Industrial Workers of the World, and six people died in the violence between miners and the state militia.

Elaine Massacre

The ____________ took place in Arkansas in 1919 as a result of race tensions. Hundreds of Black Americans died.

John W. Davis

Democratic convention nominee in 1924 against Coolidge was ___________. He was a wealthy lawyer connected with J.P. Morgan and Company. Coolidge easily defeated his opponent.

Robert La Follette

The progressive movement was a period of political reform and activism from the 1890s to the early 1920s. Which candidate ran for the Progressive Party as President of the U.S. in 1924.

Henry Luce

In the 1920s, Time magazine's purpose was to provide readers information about what was going on in the world. ____________, one of its founders, became an influential opinion maker in the U.S.

Damon Runyon

The writer whose stories inspired the musical Guys and Dolls.

Margaret Sanger

She helped to promote the Negro Project and the use of abortion within the African American community.

Industrial Workers of the World

The Centrailia Massacre was an incident that took place in 1919 between members of the _______________ and the American Legion. The conflict resulted in the deaths of six people.

1921

The Federal Highway Act of _____________ limited federal aid to a system of federal-aid highways.

Al Capone

______________ died of cardiac arrest in 1947, but his decline began earlier. After his transfer to Alcatraz prison, his mental and physical condition deteriorated from paresis (a late stage of syphilis). He was released in November 1939 and was sent to a Baltimore mental hospital before he retired to his Florida estate.

Sinclair Lewis

_____________ was an American novelist who used his works as mediums to critique society. His most prominent novels include Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), and Arrowsmith (1925).

Model T automobile

____________ was bought by millions of people, had no gas pump or top, the affluence had caused an increase in the economy, demand rose, job openings grew because of making roads

Leonidas Dyer

______________ was a representative from Missouri, who proposed a(n) anti-lynching bill in Congress in 1922. It was the first of its kind to pass both houses was the first of its kind to pass both houses.

Harold W. Ross

Founded by ______________, the first issue of The New Yorker was released in 1925. It initially focused on cultural and social life in New York City.

Speakeasy

____________ was a place where alcoholic drinks were sold and consumed illegally during prohibition.

Will Hays

United States lawyer and politician who formulated a production code that prescribed the moral content of United States films from 1930 to 1966 (1879-1954) and member of the Ohio maje

Albert Einstein

______________ was relocated to the U.S. to escape Nazi Germany, Won the Nobel Prize for Physics in1921

John Dos Passos

_____________ was a novelist who wrote of WWI and its impacts on art and civilization. He was a conservative, pessimistic and had disillusion to post-war urban America. He viewed the U.S. as 'Two nations." His U.S.A. trilogy critiques American society.

Alfred Smith

He was the first Roman Catholic to run for the U.S. presidency; He served four terms as governor of New York. He opposed Prohibition.

Claude McKay

______________ was a Jamaican-born novelist who moved to the U.S. in 1912. His novel Home to Harlem (1928) was the most popular book written by a Black American at the time.

Piano

Edward "Duke" Elligton is often hailed as the best jazz composer and bandleader. He played what instrument.

Madam C. J. Walker

_____________ was known as the first Black American female millionaire in the U.S. who produced hair care products for African American women.

Flagpole Sitting

Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly is credited for starting what craze in 1924?

It was the first cartoon with synchronized sound.

What was the significance of Disney's 1928 Steamboat Willie?

Chrysler Building

The Art Deco movement, also known as "style moderne," was bold and characterized by simple and clean lines and shapes, mixed materials, and geometric or stylized forms. The _______________ is an example of this style.

Dawes

The ______________ plan was created to settle Germany's World War I reparations to the Allied countries.

Volstead Act

The Chicago "Beer Wars" between rival gangs took place in the 1920s. Organized crime emerged as a result of the ________________ act.

California Alien Land Law of 1920

It banned Asian immigrants and their American-born children from owing land.

Teaching of evolution in schools

The Scopes Trial centered on the _______________.

Oscar De Priest

He was the first Black American elected to Congress in the 20th Century.

Marines

James "Gene" Tunney defeated Jack Dempsey in 1926, becoming the world heavyweight boxing champion. Tunney served in what U.S. military branch.

Aimee Semple McPherson

_______________ was a controversial American Pentecostal evangelist and early radio preacher whose International Church of the Foursquare Gospel brought her wealth, notoriety, and a following numbering in the tens of thousands.

Warren G. Harding and James Cox

Which two candidates ran against each other in the 1920 presidential election?

Bonus Army March

The ____________ was composed of thousands of WWI veterans and their families, assembled in Washington, D.C., in 1932.

Budweiser

In 1913, Adolphus Busch teamed up with Eberhard Anheuser and cofounded ______________ brewery, one of the largest in the world.

Crime bosses

Who attended the Atlantic City Conference of 1929?

Charlie Chaplin

In 1928, ______________ immigrated to the U.S. and signed an acting deal with Keystone Pictures. He went on to become arguable the most famous silent film comedian.

James Cox

______________ was the Democratic Party nominee for the presidential election of 1920.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

He was elected to four terms as president. He spearheaded the New Deal legislation. He led the U.S. through the Great Depression and World War II.

Fordlandia

The Ford Motor Company built _____________ in Brazil, which served as a source for what material?

Football

Red Grange popularized what sport in the 1920s?

The Young Plan

Which plan was created to settle Germany's World War I reparations. It cut Germany's reparation payments from 6.6B to 2B (not US dollars).

Kenesaw Mountain Landis

The first baseball commissioner, he was a federal judge known for honesty and toughness. He said that no player who even thought about throwing a game would ever be able to play pro baseball. He banned several White Sox players, including Shoeless Joe Jackson, from ever being inducted into the Hall of Fame. His words and tough actions led to people having confidence in their heroes once again. He and Babe Ruth together brought back baseball's popularity.