2020 U.S History Fall Review (part 1)

The economic depression occurred in which decade?

• 1920s

• 1930s

• 1910s

• 1940s

After WW1, there was a fear for the spread of communism throughout the U.S. This is known as the-

• Great Migration

• Yellow Journalism

• Red Scare

• Westward Expansion

"Black Tuesday" The Stock Market Crash happened in-

• 1929

• 1914-1918

• 1898

• 1941

Gangsters and mafias rose to fame in the 1920's due to the passage of the-

• Seventeenth Amendment

• Nineteenth Amendment

• Eighteenth Amendment

• Twentieth Amendment

The federal government expanded its role in taking responsibility for the safety of consumers in response to public concern over issues raised by-

• Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery

• Lincoln Steffen's The Shame of the Cities

• Ida Tarbell's The History of the Standard Oil Company

• Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

Unemployment increased sharply during the-

• Gilded Age

• Roaring 20s

• Great Depression

• Progressive Era

What one of the causes of the Great Depression?

• overspeculation in the stock market

• low tariffs

• good bank practices

• tough government regulations

A long drought and poor farming practices in the Great Plains lead to the-

• Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

• Dust Bowl

The federal government took on new role in the the 1930s, and was a significant effect of the-

• Great Society

• New Deal

• Gilded Age

• WW1

In the the 1920's, high U.S tariffs (taxes) on imports caused-

• a war with other nations

• other countries to lower tariffs

• other countries to raise tariffs that cut U.S exports

• high immigration to the U.S