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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) 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) 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) St. Louis
B) Detroit
C) Chicago
D) Harlem
  • 5. Which of the following is an economic weakness in the 1920's?
A) Unequal income distribution, specifically poor agricultural workers.
B) purchase of factory goods by families of average income
C) high salaries of union members
D) good times in outdated industries like coal mining
  • 6. Prohibition led to . . .
A) the Great Migration
B) World War I
C) a rise in organized crime
D) fundamentalism
  • 7. In the Great Migration, African Americans moved from . . .
A) the rural south to the industrialized cities of the northern great lakes region
B) cities to the country
C) the deep south to the western cities like Los Angeles
D) west Africa to the United States
  • 8. The Teapot Dome scandal concerned Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall's willingness to . . .
A) allow Britain to avoid tariffs on oil
B) accept bribes from oil companies to drill on federal lands for low rates instead of competive bidding
C) lobby legislators to limit the amount of land set aside for nature preserves
D) pay oil companies to drill on private land
  • 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) 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) be divided by economic class
C) have private property
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'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 started too many government aid programs and lacked business sense
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 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) Securities Exchange Commission
B) Social Security Act
C) Works Progress Administration
D) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
  • 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) delayed gratification
C) installment buying or buying on credit
D) name brand recognition
  • 16. The Civilian Conservation Corps was formed to address the problem of . . .
A) clear-cutting in old-growth forests
B) investor anxiety
C) poor wages for factory workers
D) unemployment among young men
  • 17. Beliefs based on a literal interpretation of the Bible are called?
A) evolution
B) fundamentalism
C) values
D) urbanization
  • 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) demand for agricultural products was higher than supply
C) competition grew when European farmers returned to their fields
D) the United States passed a tariff on foreign agricultural products
  • 19. Americans knew they were in a Hooverville when they saw . . .
A) dams
B) vacuum cleaners
C) shacks
D) banks
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