Warm up History Ch. 20-22 Quiz

Which event tarnished the Harding administration by selling off Navy oil reserves for bribes?

• Teapot Dome Scandal
• Watergate Scandal
• Iran-Contra Scandal
• OPEC Scandal

What term describes President Franklin Roosevelt’s weekly addresses used to inform and reassure the general public?

• Fireside Chats
• Brain Trust
• State of the Union Address
• New Deal

What term was given to October 29, 1929 when over 16 million stocks were sold in a panic?

• Great Depression
• Federal Reserve
• Black Friday
• Stock Market Crash

What was the name was given to secret bars and clubs during prohibition?

• Whisper-wells
• Speakeasies
• Silent bars
• Password pubs

What term describes the slums built in city parks made of cardboard and scrap metal during the depression?

• Hoovervilles
• Prohibition
• Flappers
• Dust Bowl

What term describes the new style of women who were much more social, cut their hair short, and wore short skirts?

• Hoovervilles
• Prohibition
• Flappers
• Dust Bowl

What term describes the trend of massive amounts of African Americans leaving the South for better opportunities and less discrimination in the North?

• Great Migration
• Over-speculation
• Harlem Renaissance
• Red Scare

What term is associated with the 18th Amendment in which the production, sale, and consumption of alcohol was illegal?

• Hoovervilles
• Prohibition
• Flappers
• Dust Bowl

What term describes the severe drought in the Midwest during the Great Depression?

• Hoovervilles
• Prohibition
• Flappers
• Dust Bowl

What term describes the mass panic that spread across the nation in which people began fearing the neighbors and coworkers were communists?

• Great Migration
• Over-speculation
• Harlem Renaissance
• Red Scare