Harlem Renaissance/ Great Depression

Which of the following led to a financial crisis for farmers in the 1920s and 1930s?

• A decrease in numbers of workers who were willing to work on farms

• Foreign demand for U.S. farm products dropped in the 1920s due to tariffs

• Farmers paid off most of their debt in the 1920s

• Prices for farm products rose in the 1930s

Life in the Great Plains region was made much harder for farmers during the 20s and 30s by

• a series of floods on the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers.

• the failure of individuals to save money during prosperous times.

• FDR’s failure to push the government to aid farmers.

• drought and poor farming practices that resulted in the Dust Bowl.

African American artists, musicians, and writers, like Langston Hughes, make significant cultural contributions as part of

• the Dust Bowl

• the Great Depression

• WWI

• the Harlem Renaissance

Business and farmers were able to borrow huge sums of money in the 1920s due to

• Low interest rates

• High tariffs

• Bank holidays

• Bank holidays

President Hoover most supported which of the following?

• Providing Direct Relief to those who were struggling

• Government intervention through the New Deal

• hands off approach, rugged individualism

How did World War I contribute to the Harlem Renaissance?

• It encouraged African Americans to move north seeking economic opportunities.

• African Americans served in integrated units during the War.

• It encouraged African American to move west during the Dust Bowl

• African Americans largely stayed in the south after the War to combat racial injustice.

A cause of the Great Depression where Americans could not purchase the new consumable goods due to low wages instead using credit, where rich controlled majority of the wealth,

• low interest rates

• overproduction

• Uneven Distribution of Wealth

• high tariffs

How is this work, Les Fetiches, representative of the Harlem Renaissance?

• represents pride in African roots

• represents pride in African identity

• both of the above

This was when people invest using credit to inflate the worth of the stocks

• Speculation

• high tariffs

• overproduction

• low interest rates

An example of modernity of the 1920's

• Scopes Trial

• Prohibition

• Flappers

• rise of the KKK