Unit 5 Quiz: Roaring 20s, Great Depression, New Deal

Which federal agency’s failure to prevent the collapse of the national banking system in the late  1920’s and early 1930’s led to severe contraction in the nation’s monetary supply?

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

• Works Progress Administration

•  Social Security Administration

• Federal Reserve

Which New Deal Program is a Recovery Program?

• The Civilian  Conservation Corps  (CCC)

• Securities and  Exchange Commission (SEC)

• Tennessee  Valley Authority (TVA)

Which federal government policy contributed to the Stock Market Crash of 1929?

• Decreased government regulation of business

• Limiting innovation among domestic manufacturers

• Increased government grants for farmers

• Providing subsidies for improving productivity

African American artistic creativity during the 1920s

• Harlem Rising

• Harlem Renaissance

• Harlem Shuffle

• Harlem Wakening

Which amendment led to the rise of speakeasies?

• 19th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

• 5th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

The flapper lifestyle was a rejection of –

• The excesses of the Roaring Twenties.

• Racially discriminatory norms and laws.

• The abuse of the working class.

• Socially restrictive gender norms.

The ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment was a step toward improving –

• Racial equality in the United States.

• Gender equality in the United States.

• Public education in the United States.

• Public health in the United States.

What was one effect of the changes in mass media in the 1920s?

• Advertisers reached more Americans than before, which led to the growth of consumer  culture.

• African American culture spread, which helped the civil rights movement gain supporters.

• Americans became more culturally divided because media outlets could only reach small  areas.

•  Job opportunities in the growing radio industry led to increased migration to northern cities.

Which of the following best describes the goal and impact of the Social Security Act?

• Provided funds for construction projects

• Corrected unsound banking and investment practices

• Relocated struggling families to communities planned by the federal government

• Offered safeguards for workers

How was the Scopes Trial representative of life in the United States in the 1920s?

• It reflected the debate between imperialists and isolationists regarding US foreign policy.

• It reflected the conflict between supporters of evolution and religious fundamentalists.

• It reflected the debate between imperialists and isolationists regarding US foreign policy.

• It reflected the growing opposition to the Jim Crow system in the American South.