The 1920's and 1930's
  • 1. ___________ is the term that describes the devastation of the Great Plains by drought.
A) The Great Depression
B) The Grapes of Wrath
C) The Dust Bowl
D) Black Tuesday
  • 2. By 1914 Henry Ford was building cars taht average Americans could afford because he . . . .
A) encouraged his workers to join trade unions.
B) paid his workers far below average factory wages.
C) hired skilled workers who worked by hand.
D) equipped his factory with an assembly line.
  • 3. People who hopped trains to look for work were known as . . .
A) Hoovervilles.
B) Okies.
C) migrants.
D) hoboes.
  • 4. The unnofficial capital of African American culture and activism in the United States in the 1920's was . . .
A) St. Louis
B) Chicago
C) Harlem
D) Detroit
  • 5. Which of the following is an economic weakness in the 1920's?
A) good times in outdated industries like coal mining
B) purchase of factory goods by families of average income
C) Unequal income distribution, specifically poor agricultural workers.
D) high salaries of union members
  • 6. Prohibition led to . . .
A) a rise in organized crime
B) the Great Migration
C) fundamentalism
D) World War I
  • 7. In the Great Migration, African Americans moved from . . .
A) cities to the country
B) the rural south to the industrialized cities of the northern great lakes region
C) west Africa to the United States
D) the deep south to the western cities like Los Angeles
  • 8. The Teapot Dome scandal concerned Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall's willingness to . . .
A) allow Britain to avoid tariffs on oil
B) pay oil companies to drill on private land
C) lobby legislators to limit the amount of land set aside for nature preserves
D) accept bribes from oil companies to drill on federal lands for low rates instead of competive bidding
  • 9. What were the three main goals of the New Deal?
A) reaction, response and resignation
B) revolt, relief and renewal
C) relief, recovery and reforms
D) review relocation and revolution
  • 10. The Securities and Exchange Commission helped the public . . .
A) regain faith in the financial markets
B) cope with poverty
C) establish a minimum wage
D) establish unions
  • 11. One fo the basic principles of communism is that everyone should . . .
A) not share equaly in society's wealth
B) be divided by economic class
C) share equally in society's wealth
D) have private property
  • 12. Identify one difference between the presidencies of Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge
A) Harding looked like a president and Coolidge did not
B) Coolidge's presidency greatly increased the size of the American Government
C) Coolidge had numerous scandals during his presidency
D) Harding's presidency was marked by numerous scandals
  • 13. During the Great Depression, President Hoover came under attack because many American believed that . . .
A) he put more emphasis on international trade that he did on the American economy
B) he started too many government aid programs and lacked business sense
C) he grew rich while the American people suffered
D) he did not fully grasp or care about how desperate the American people were
  • 14. The _____ helped restore public confidence in the safety of banks
A) Works Progress Administration
B) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
C) Social Security Act
D) Securities Exchange Commission
  • 15. In order to afford the new items American industry was producing in the 1920's, it became more respectable than previously to depend on . .
A) installment buying or buying on credit
B) the barter system
C) delayed gratification
D) name brand recognition
  • 16. The Civilian Conservation Corps was formed to address the problem of . . .
A) investor anxiety
B) unemployment among young men
C) clear-cutting in old-growth forests
D) poor wages for factory workers
  • 17. Beliefs based on a literal interpretation of the Bible are called?
A) fundamentalism
B) values
C) evolution
D) urbanization
  • 18. In the 1920's American farmers were left out of the thriving economy because . . .
A) demand for agricultural products was higher than supply
B) American farms were depleted during World War I
C) the United States passed a tariff on foreign agricultural products
D) competition grew when European farmers returned to their fields
  • 19. Americans knew they were in a Hooverville when they saw . . .
A) dams
B) shacks
C) banks
D) vacuum cleaners
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