20's, Depression, New Deal

Click ALL of the following that could apply to the effects of the Great Depression

• Bank failures

• Unemployment rises

• Rise of Banks opening

• Life Savings lost

Shantytowns and homes made by homeless people from scrap wood and tins become known as

• Depressionville

• Government homes

• Hooverville

After President Hoover failed to help the public, who ran for election on the slogan a New Deal for Americans?

• Franklin D Roosevelt

• Harry S Truman

• Calvin Coolidge

• Herbert Hoover

Who was president at the time of the Stock Market Crash of 1929?

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Calvin Coolidge

• Herbert Hoover

Which economic factor contributed most directly to the start of the Great Depression?

• low worker productivity

• high income taxes

• decreasing tariff rates

• buying stocks on margin

What tool - passed during the Hoover Administration - designed to protect American manufacturers actually ended up creating a worldwide depression?

• New Deal

• Hawley-Smoot Tariff

• 2nd New Deal

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

Which of the following had the greatest influence on entertainment and the arts during the 1920s?

• automobiles

• television

• newspapers

• radio

What factors led African-Americans to migrate North in the Great Migration?

• Racism in the North, Opportunity in Canada
• Decrease in immigration
• Persecution in the South, Economic opportunity in the North

Which of these limited immigration during the 1920s?

• National Origins Act

• KKK

• Scientific Management

• The Great Migration