The 1920's and 1930's
  • 1. ___________ is the term that describes the devastation of the Great Plains by drought.
A) The Dust Bowl
B) The Great Depression
C) Black Tuesday
D) The Grapes of Wrath
  • 2. By 1914 Henry Ford was building cars taht average Americans could afford because he . . . .
A) paid his workers far below average factory wages.
B) encouraged his workers to join trade unions.
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) Okies.
B) Hoovervilles.
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) St. Louis
C) Detroit
D) Harlem
  • 5. Which of the following is an economic weakness in the 1920's?
A) high salaries of union members
B) good times in outdated industries like coal mining
C) Unequal income distribution, specifically poor agricultural workers.
D) purchase of factory goods by families of average income
  • 6. Prohibition led to . . .
A) World War I
B) fundamentalism
C) a rise in organized crime
D) the Great Migration
  • 7. In the Great Migration, African Americans moved from . . .
A) the deep south to the western cities like Los Angeles
B) cities to the country
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) lobby legislators to limit the amount of land set aside for nature preserves
B) accept bribes from oil companies to drill on federal lands for low rates instead of competive bidding
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) review relocation and revolution
C) relief, recovery and reforms
D) revolt, relief and renewal
  • 10. The Securities and Exchange Commission helped the public . . .
A) establish unions
B) regain faith in the financial markets
C) cope with poverty
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's presidency was marked by numerous scandals
B) Coolidge had numerous scandals during his presidency
C) Coolidge's presidency greatly increased the size of the American Government
D) Harding looked like a president and Coolidge did not
  • 13. During the Great Depression, President Hoover came under attack because many American believed that . . .
A) he did not fully grasp or care about how desperate the American people were
B) he put more emphasis on international trade that he did on the American economy
C) he grew rich while the American people suffered
D) he started too many government aid programs and lacked business sense
  • 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) the barter system
B) installment buying or buying on credit
C) delayed gratification
D) name brand recognition
  • 16. The Civilian Conservation Corps was formed to address the problem of . . .
A) poor wages for factory workers
B) clear-cutting in old-growth forests
C) investor anxiety
D) unemployment among young men
  • 17. Beliefs based on a literal interpretation of the Bible are called?
A) values
B) urbanization
C) fundamentalism
D) evolution
  • 18. In the 1920's American farmers were left out of the thriving economy because . . .
A) the United States passed a tariff on foreign agricultural products
B) competition grew when European farmers returned to their fields
C) American farms were depleted during World War I
D) demand for agricultural products was higher than supply
  • 19. Americans knew they were in a Hooverville when they saw . . .
A) vacuum cleaners
B) shacks
C) dams
D) banks
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