What decade is this list talking about?

*Major Droughts

* Large number of bank failures

* Widespread unemployment

* Expanded role of the federal government

• 1910-1919

• 1920-1929

• 1930-1939

• 1940-1949

What is the era described?

* Greater freedom for women

* General economic prosperity

* Over-speculation in the stock market

* Conflicting social values

* Rising nativists sentiments

• Progressive Era

• Twenties

• Great Depression

• Sixties

Which time period is the best title for the list?

1. Growing levels of immigration

2. Expanding industrialization

3. Rising power of political machines

4. Increasing cases of unsafe working conditions

• Gilded Age

• Progressive Era

• Great Depression

• Roaring Twenties

The Stock Market crash also known as Black Tuesday, is cited as the beginning of...

• the Dust Bowl.
• World War I.
• the Great Depression.
• the New Deal.

In the 1930's, there was a westward migration of farmers from the Great Plains due to 

• new technologies
• the baby boom
• high farm prices
• the Dust Bowl

What factors contributed most to the Dust Storm Damage of the 1930's.

• Poor irrigation and use of crop rotation

• Multiple El Nino events and dam building

• Years of drought and poor farming techniques

• Farm worker labor shortage and chemical fertilizers

All the following happened in the Great Depression EXCEPT...

• Decline in worldwide trade
• Over speculation in the stock market
• Bank Failures
• Increase in consumer spending

Breadlines and soup lines were common in the 1930's because of

• growing demand for payment of military pensions
• a sudden increase in agricultural exports
• the passage of the Selective Service Act
• widespread business failures 

What was one cause of the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression that followed?

• Federal tax cuts had caused high inflation
• Low farm production had weakened banks.
• Costs associated with WWI had bankrupted the economy. 
• Speculators had purchased shares of stock on margin

What statement about the stock market crash of 1929 is most accurate?

• It was the single cause of the Great Depression.
• It helped lead to the Great Depression.
• It was caused by the effects of the Great Depression.
• It continued long after the Great Depression ended.