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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 Grapes of Wrath
B) Black Tuesday
C) The Dust Bowl
D) The Great Depression
  • 2. By 1914 Henry Ford was building cars taht average Americans could afford because he . . . .
A) hired skilled workers who worked by hand.
B) encouraged his workers to join trade unions.
C) equipped his factory with an assembly line.
D) paid his workers far below average factory wages.
  • 3. People who hopped trains to look for work were known as . . .
A) hoboes.
B) migrants.
C) Hoovervilles.
D) Okies.
  • 4. The unnofficial capital of African American culture and activism in the United States in the 1920's was . . .
A) St. Louis
B) Detroit
C) Chicago
D) Harlem
  • 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A) good times in outdated industries like coal mining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) the Great Migration
D) fundamentalism
  • 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) cities to the country
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) lobby legislators to limit the amount of land set aside for nature preserves
B) allow Britain to avoid tariffs on oil
C) pay oil companies to drill on private land
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) 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) establish a minimum wage
C) cope with poverty
D) establish unions
  • 11. One fo the basic principles of communism is that everyone should . . .
A) have private property
B) not share equaly in society's wealth
C) share equally 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) Coolidge had numerous scandals during his presidency
B) Harding's presidency was marked by numerous scandals
C) Harding looked like a president and Coolidge did not
D) Coolidge's presidency greatly increased the size of the American Government
  • 13. During the Great Depression, President Hoover came under attack because many American believed that . . .
A) he started too many government aid programs and lacked business sense
B) he did not fully grasp or care about how desperate the American people were
C) he put more emphasis on international trade that he did on the American economy
D) he grew rich while the American people suffered
  • 14. The _____ helped restore public confidence in the safety of banks
A) Securities Exchange Commission
B) Works Progress Administration
C) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
D) Social Security Act
  • 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) delayed gratification
C) the barter system
D) name brand recognition
  • 16. The Civilian Conservation Corps was formed to address the problem of . . .
A) unemployment among young men
B) clear-cutting in old-growth forests
C) investor anxiety
D) poor wages for factory workers
  • 17. Beliefs based on a literal interpretation of the Bible are called?
A) fundamentalism
B) evolution
C) urbanization
D) values
  • 18. In the 1920's American farmers were left out of the thriving economy because . . .
A) American farms were depleted during World War I
B) the United States passed a tariff on foreign agricultural products
C) demand for agricultural products was higher than supply
D) competition grew when European farmers returned to their fields
  • 19. Americans knew they were in a Hooverville when they saw . . .
A) vacuum cleaners
B) banks
C) dams
D) shacks
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