Unit 6 Semester Review Quiz

The graph provides information on the percentage of unemployed workers from 1914 to 1921.

What was the primary cause of the changes to the unemployment rate in 1920 and 1921?

• the effects of demoblization

• the impact of the "Red Scare"

• the passage of the Emergency Quota Act

• the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War

The political cartoon below depicts Uncle Sam in 1920.

What is the main idea of the cartoon?

• the land of opportunity is not the Russian immigrants

• if an alien is from Latin America, he or she can be deported

• packing vicious aliens like sardines is a serious violation of human rights

• dangerous communists and anarchists should be sent out of the country

Which groups did not generally participate in the economic boom of the 1920s?

• manufacturers and real estate developers

• stock brokers and automobile workers

• bankers and construction workers

• minorities and railroad workers

Which problem was demonstrated by events at Rosewood in 1923?

• the growing strength of the Ku Klux Klan in Southern states

• the continuing prevalence of racism in inland Southern towns

• racial tensions in Northern cities in the years after World War I

• the absence of agricultural employment in Southern communities

The excerpt is from the 18th Amendment

"After one year from the ratification of this article, the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, [or] the importation thereof into...the United States...for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited"

Which of these groups in American society sought to overturn this amendment?

• fundamentalists Christians in rural areas

• immigrants and the residents of large cities

• American gangsters smuggling in illegal liquor

• women members of the Temperance Movement

The diagram provides details about the Great Depression.

Which phrase completes the diagram?

• war in Europe

• agricultural drought

• overproduction of goods

• introduction of new technologies

How did the plans of Presidents Hoover and F.D. Roosevelt compare for dealing with the Great Depression?

• Hoover gave emergency loans to banks and businesses while Roosevelt opposed such programs

• both Presidents believed the federal government should provide direct payments to the unemployed

• Hoover increased federal spending on public works projects like Hoover Dam while Roosevelt opposed such projects

• Roosevelt proposed that the federal government provide direct employment to the needy while Hoover relied more on local government and private charities

The political cartoon depicts President Franklin Roosevelt in 1937.

Based on the cartoon, what was the reaction to President Roosevelt's "court-packing" plan?

• the public wanted President Roosevelt to act more quickly to save New Deal programs

• Congress handed Roosevelt his first major defeat by upholding the separation of powers

• a majority of Americans agreed that several of the Supreme Court Justices were too old

• most Americans agreed with the Supreme Court that the NRA and AAA were unconstitutional

Which New Deal agency constructed a series of dams that produced hydroelectricity?

• Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

• National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)

• Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corportation (FCDI)

The graph shows the unemployment rate in the United States between 1930 and 1945.

Based on the graph, what conclusions can be made about government policies in the 1930s?

• President Hoover's policies were more effective than the New Deal in dealing with the Depression

• by 1938, the New Deal had successfully brought unemployment back down to pre-Depression levels

• New Deal policies failed to improve the economy because of the interference of the Supreme Court

• despite Roosevelt's New Deal policies, the unemployment rate remained high throughout the 1930s