USII 6-20th Century Changes Review

Who launched the moving assembly line for automobile production? Soon the automobile created more jobs: car repair, car dealers, gas stations, car wash, delivery

• Wright Brothers

• Ford

• DuBois

• Edison

Which development powered labor saving devices in the home?

• electrification
• natural gas pipelines
• windmills
• new coal mining techniques

Which constitutional amendment outlawed the manufacture and sale of Alcohol?

• 17th

• 18th

• 19th

• 21st

Places that sold illegal alcohol during the 1920's were called

• bootlegging establishments

• speakeasies

• vamps

• flappers

The end of the Prohibition era and alcohol becoming legal again-

• passage of the Volstead act

• 21st Amendment in 1933

• arrest of Al Capone

• start of the Great Depression in 1929

Who invented the first motor powered, piloted fight in 1903?

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• George Washington Carver

• Wright Brothers

The items advertised are considered what name in the 1920s? These replace traditional labor and allowed more leisure time

• Mobile Phones

• Labor Saving Devices

• Labor Intensive Products

• Coal Fired Devices

Who did the Great Depression impact THE MOST with the economics and the drought of the 1930s

• Insurance Salesmen

• Farmers

• Teachers

• Artists

How many Amercans were out of work during the Depression

• 100%

• 15%

• 95%

• 25%

Writer from California who wrote tales of poor migrant workers during the Dust Bowl era

• Morgan Freeman

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

• John Steinbeck

• John Grisham