APUSH Unit 8 1920s & The Great Depression

This president thought the federal government should not get involved in the economy. As a result, many Americans blamed him for the Great Depression.

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Theodore Rooselvelt
• Herbert Hoover
• Calvin Coolidge

Why is the Harlem Renaissance of major importance in American History?

• The government finally passed a law banning slavery.

• The area of New York was rebuilt after a devastating fire.

• It finally gave much needed jobs to African-Americans during the Great Migration.

• It brought the African-American experience into the cultural conscious of the country.

The Scopes Trial (1925) involved

• conspiracy on the part of labor to restrain trade.

• the teaching of Christianity in Tennessee schools.

• teaching of the communist doctrine in Tennessee schools.

• a conflict in values between traditional fundamentalism and modernism.

An obvious defect in the United States' banking system that was exposed during the Great Depression was

• excessive government regulation of banks.

• the federal government's ownership of banks.

• an excessive amount of currency in circulation.

• the lack of protection for funds deposited by individuals in banks.

A major cause of the economic depression of 1929 was

• a return to the gold standard.

• decline in consumer purchasing power.

• increased number of public works projects.

• government programs designed to reduce agricultural production.

Which event in history is seen by many people as the beginning of the Great Depression in the United States?

• the Stock Market Crash of 1929

• the beginning of the Dust Bowl

• the end of fighting in World War I

• the creation of the Federal Reserve

In what is known as The Great Migration, large numbers of African Americans moved from the rural south to northern cities, beginning in the early twentieth century. What motivated this large-scale movement?

• the Emancipation Proclamation

• the opportunity to serve in the military in World War I

• job openings due to industrial growth in northern cities

• competition for jobs from immigrants moving into southern states

Which of these resulted form the prohibition of alchohol during the 1920s?

• a decline in immigration rates

• a growing fear of communism

• the expansion of the consumer economy

• the rise of organized crime

Why were more people able to own automobiles, radios, washing machines, and other goods in the 1920s?

• because of advertising

• because of lower taxes on imports

• because of installment buying

• because the trucking industry grew

One common theme in many of the writings of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Langston Hughes was

• the benefits of mass production

• the need to regulate business

• dissatisfaction with American culture of the 1920s

• optimism for reforms promised by the Great Society