US History Review: 1920-WWII

What was a cultural trend for women during the 1920's?

• fundamentalism

• temperance movement

• prohibition

• flappers

Which events best support the image of the 1920’s as a decade of nativist sentiment?

• the growth of the auto industry and the Teapot Dome Affair

• the Washington Naval Conference and the Kellogg-Briand Pact

• the Scopes trial and the passage of women’s suffrage

• the passage of the National Origins Act and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan

What two things were in conflict during the 1925 trial of John Scopes?

• science and religion

• traditional roles and new roles for women 

• isolation and international involvement

• Prohibition and organized crime

Which of the following historical figures is most closely associated with the Harlem Renaissance?

• Harriet Beecher Stowe 

• Jacob Riis 

• Langston Hughes

• Lorraine Hansberry 

Based on this graph, what problem is being described?

• Unemployment dropped as a result of World War II 

• Unemployment grew steadily from 1929 to 1933

• Unemployment was the result of President Hoover’s economic policies 

• Unemployment fell every year after 1933

This chart would be most useful to a person attempting to prove

• An increased rate of unemployment as a result of the New Deal

• The New Deal Programs’ reduction of unemployment

• Unemployment was the result of President Hoover’s economic policies 

• The steady rate of unemployment in the US during this period

Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt both had to deal with what event?

• World War I

• World War II

• The Great Depression

• The Civil War

Which of the following immediately followed the Great Depression?

• Reconstruction Amendments

• New Deal Programs

• Gilded Age economic reforms

• Ratification of the Treaty of Versailles

What difference of opinion did Hoover and Roosevelt have?

• promoting free-trade policies in the Western Hemisphere

• granting subsidies to big business

• expanding the federal government’s role in the economy 

• regulating supply and demand

What was the most likely cause of the election results shown on the map?

• Republican Party popularity had been declining for several elections.

• Franklin D. Roosevelt had more business experience than Herbert Hoover.

• It is difficult to defeat an incumbent president.

• Most voters blamed President Herbert Hoover for the Great Depression.