Roaring 20's and the Great Depression Test Review

Which characteristic of the 1920s is illustrated by the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti?

• hostility toward woman’s suffrage

• support for segregation

• opposition to separation of church and state

• intolerance toward immigrants

The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s can best be described as

• an organization created to help promote African-American businesses

• a movement that sought to draw people back to the inner cities

• a relief program to provide jobs for minority workers

• a period of great achievement by African- American writers, artists, and performers

The conditions shown in this 1936 photograph were caused mainly by

• global warming

• deforestation and overgrazing

• periods of widespread flooding

• drought and poor farming techniques

Which economic condition was a major cause of the Great Depression?

• high wages of industrial workers

• deficit spending by the federal government

• inability of industry to produce enough consumer goods

• uneven distribution of income between the rich and the poor

The main idea of the cartoon is that President Franklin D Roosevelt wanted to';

• impeach justices who did not support him

• create higher qualifications for justices

• control the decisions of the Supreme Court

• encourage the Supreme Court to act more efficiently

The principal goal of the supporters of Manifest Destiny in the 1840s was to

• convince Canada to become part of the United States

• expand United States territory to the Pacific Ocean

• build a canal across Central America

• acquire naval bases in the Caribbean

What factors were the major cause of the Red Scare and the Palmer Raids, which followed World War I?

• success of the Communist Party in congressional and Presidential elections

• race riots in Los Angles and the revival of the Ku Klux Klan

• the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 in Russia and workers' strikes in the United States

• failure of the United States to join the League if nations and the unpaid German war debts

Which development most clearly illustrates the nativist attitudes that existed in the United States in the 1920s?

• limits on immigration established by the Quota Acts

• pro-business policies of the federal government

• artistic and literary achievements of the Harlem Renaissance

• conflicts between religion and science as shown in the Scopes Trial

The Supreme Court decision in Schenck v. United States (1919) stated that

• immigrants have limited rights

• freedom of speech is not absolute

• rights of the accused may not be limited

• women should be granted suffrage

In the 1930s, shantytowns, often called “Hoovervilles,” sprang up across the United States because of President Herbert Hoover’s

• support for federal programs to provide jobs for the unemployed

• refusal to provide direct federal aid to the homeless

• efforts to help the residents return to their farms

• emergency relief program to provide food to the poor