Roaring Twenties/ Great Depression

Which economic factor contributed most directly to the start of the Great Depression?

• low worker productivity
• high income taxes
• decreasing tariff rates
• buying stocks on margin

What is the importance of the year 1929?

• The Civil War began
• Stock market crashed and the beginning of the Great Depression
• The oil boom at Spindletop
• Texas becoming a state

What was the name of FDR's plans and programs designed to meet the needs and problems of the Great Depression?

• New Deal
• Great Deal
• Social Security
• the New Liberalism

What was the brought the country out of the Great Depression?

• the Bonus Army
• the building of the Hoover Dam
• going off of the gold standard
• World War II

What New Deal program was an answer to demands for a pension for the elderly?

• National Labor Relations
• Tennessee Valley Authority
• Works {rogress Administration
• Social Security

The ________Amendment started Prohibition.  

• 10th 
• 19th 
• 20th 
• 18th 

During the 1920s people lives changed because they began listening to the what? 

• mass media 
• movies 
• radio 
• music 

The 19th Amendment was ratified to the US Constitution in 1920, what did it do?

• Give women the right to vote
• Legalized drinking alcohol
• Created the income tax
• Set term limits on the president

What was the issue up for debate in the Scopes Trial?

• Prohibition
• Deficit Spending
• Evolution
• Communism

Henry Ford’s main contribution to the US industry was the idea of the assembly line and __________.

• Gas
• mass production
• sports car
• transportation