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A) good times in outdated industries like coal mining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