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What is the 'Roaring Twenties'
decade of peace, wealth and fun!
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What is 5
The number of men who died during construction of the Empire State building
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What is a union?
organization of workers formed to protect and further their rights and interests
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Who are the Lakota
this tribe fought Custer at Little Bighorn
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What is a broker
a man who sells and buys stocks on your behalf for profit
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What are flappers
girls who flaunted conventions and embraced new liberties, such as short hair
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What is a stock
A piece of a company that a person can buy
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What is a boycott.
when a person refuses to purchase goods from a company
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Who is General Custer
This American general unfairly attacked the Lakota and ended up getting killed
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What is buying on margin
when you borrow 90% in cash and promise to pay it back later
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What was 'Red Summer'
the summer of 1919 was called this due to violent riots against African Americans
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What is a speakeasy
illegal bars where alcoholic drinks were sold
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What is a scab
workers hired to replace older workers
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Who is Sitting Bull
This Native American chief is blamed General Custer's death
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What is black Thursday
the term used to describe when the stock market crashed in 1929
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Who are Morgan and Rockefeller?
These two industrial giants owned the steel and oil industry.
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What is the Progressive Era
a period in American history were citizens tried to fix problems in society
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What is suffrage
the right for women to vote
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Who are the Sioux
This tribe was massacred at Wounded Knee
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What is the dust bowl
when the plains experienced huge dust/dirty storms due to the topsoil not being anchored to the ground as a result of overfarming
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What are wildchatters?
Men who went into Texas looking for commodities to make a fortune in
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What is prohabition
the name for the movement to ban alcohol
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What are the plains
an area in the middle of the United States that produced food
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What is a reservation
This place is where both the Lakota and Sioux escaped from due to bad conditions
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What is the New Deal
the name FDR gave to new federal programs
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