Unit 7 Review

What is the name of the period of great economic prosperity and social change following WWI called in America?

• Roaring 20s
• Age of Consumerism
• Speakeasy Era
• Thrilling 30s

How did average Americans afford expensive new home appliances like washing machines and vacuum cleaners during the 1920's?

• buying on the margin 
• speculation 
• bank runs
• installment plans

How did Henry Ford make automobiles affordable for the average American in the 1920's?

• he incorporated the assembly line in his factories 
• he used cheap immigrant laborers in his factories 
• he created the first electric car 
• he created the first car to run on petroleum 

What was the term for young women in the 1920's who challenged traditional gender roles by wearing shorter dresses, wearing bobbed hair, attending nigh clubs, drinking, smoking, and dancing

• Charlestons
• Flappers 
• Bootleggers 
• Anarchists 

Which of the following was the dominant form of mass media during the 1920's? 

• movies
• television 
• telephone 
• radio 

Which of the following gave women suffrage in 1920? 

• 18th Amendment
• 21st Amendment 
• 19th Amendment 
• 17th Amendment 

What was the 18th Amendment? 

• Gave women the right to vote 
• Prohibition 
• Ended slavery 
• Direct election of senators 

Which amendment ended the Prohibition era in 1933? 

• 18th Amendment
• 21st Amendemnt
• 19th Amendment 
• 22nd Amendment 

During the Red Scare many Americans feared 

• Communism 
• Nazism 
• Chinese immigrants 
• atomic bombs 

Which of the following was not a cause of the Great Depression 

• buying stock on the margin 
• stock market speculation 
• Overproduction 
• WWII