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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 Great Depression
B) Black Tuesday
C) The Grapes of Wrath
D) The Dust Bowl
  • 2. By 1914 Henry Ford was building cars taht average Americans could afford because he . . . .
A) encouraged his workers to join trade unions.
B) hired skilled workers who worked by hand.
C) paid his workers far below average factory wages.
D) equipped his factory with an assembly line.
  • 3. People who hopped trains to look for work were known as . . .
A) hoboes.
B) Okies.
C) Hoovervilles.
D) migrants.
  • 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) Unequal income distribution, specifically poor agricultural workers.
B) high salaries of union members
C) purchase of factory goods by families of average income
D) good times in outdated industries like coal mining
  • 6. Prohibition led to . . .
A) a rise in organized crime
B) fundamentalism
C) World War I
D) the Great Migration
  • 7. In the Great Migration, African Americans moved from . . .
A) cities to the country
B) the deep south to the western cities like Los Angeles
C) west Africa to the United States
D) the rural south to the industrialized cities of the northern great lakes region
  • 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) lobby legislators to limit the amount of land set aside for nature preserves
C) pay oil companies to drill on private land
D) allow Britain to avoid tariffs on oil
  • 9. What were the three main goals of the New Deal?
A) reaction, response and resignation
B) relief, recovery and reforms
C) revolt, relief and renewal
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 unions
D) establish a minimum wage
  • 11. One fo the basic principles of communism is that everyone should . . .
A) have private property
B) share equally in society's wealth
C) not share equaly in society's wealth
D) be divided by economic class
  • 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) Harding's presidency was marked by numerous scandals
D) Coolidge had numerous scandals during his presidency
  • 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 did not fully grasp or care about how desperate the American people were
C) he started too many government aid programs and lacked business sense
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) Works Progress Administration
C) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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) name brand recognition
D) delayed gratification
  • 16. The Civilian Conservation Corps was formed to address the problem of . . .
A) investor anxiety
B) poor wages for factory workers
C) unemployment among young men
D) clear-cutting in old-growth forests
  • 17. Beliefs based on a literal interpretation of the Bible are called?
A) evolution
B) fundamentalism
C) urbanization
D) values
  • 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) shacks
B) dams
C) vacuum cleaners
D) banks
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