Unit 4: The Roaring 20s & Great Depression

How did the Great Migration influence the culture of the northeast United States?

• Young adults had more social opportunities.

• Populations in rural areas grew rapidly.

• Women began to work in factories.

• Jazz became a popular musical form.

Which statement describes a major outcome of the New Deal?

• Bank deposits were insured by the federal government.

• The public schools were desegregated.

• Retirees were guaranteed federal medical insurance

• The armed forces were integrated.

How did the introduction of these New Deal programs affect the role of the government?

Selected New Deal Programs

• Works Progress Administration (WPA)

• Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

• Social Security Administration (SSA)

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

• The government abandoned deficit spending to fund its programs.

• Federal government pensions were administered at the state level.

• Congress replaced the president as the initiator of most government programs.

• The federal government took an active role in protecting individual prosperity.

Which event was an outcome of the Red Scare of the 1920s?

• exposure of the Teapot Dome scandal

• trial of Sacco and Vanzetti

• ratification of Prohibition

• passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff

Use the list below to answer the question.

•The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

•A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway

• “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” T. S. Eliot

Which phrase BEST describes the works in this list?

• creative works inspired by the Harlem Renaissance

• works focused on disenchantment with antilabor government policies

• works focused on disillusionment caused by a loss of innocence

• creative works motivated by Victorian values

Which innovation was MOST responsible for aiding in the spread of popular culture in the 1920s?

• the automobile

• the phonograph

• the radio

• the telephone

Use the information below to answer the question.

Migration from Oklahoma to California

1931–1939 Over 440,000 people migrate from Oklahoma

1935-1940 Over 250,000 migrants from the Southwest, many from Oklahoma, settle in California

Which BEST explains the population shift from Oklahoma to California during the 1930s?

• The growing industrial economy created many factory jobs in the West.

• The new interstate highway system made travel to the West Coast easier.

• Government policies forced Native Americans to leave their reservations.

• Drought conditions forced many families to leave their farms in search of employment.

Which action BEST demonstrates intolerance shown to Catholic immigrants in the early 20th century?

• the ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson

• the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan

• the practice of closed shops

• the enforcement of workplace reforms

What was one effect the writings of Langston Hughes had on U.S. culture?

• His writings exposed the dangerous conditions in meatpacking plants.

• His writings raised public awareness about the injustices of a segregated society.

• His writings illustrated the unsafe living conditions of immigrants in urban areas.

• His writings uncovered a scandal involving oil companies in Southern states.

The Scopes trial of the 1920s dealt with a conflict between

• communism and capitalism

• Protestants and Catholics

• science and religion

• labor and management