Prohibition and Great Depression

Many people viewed Sacco and Vanzetti with suspicion because they were

• German immigrants and anarchists

• German immigrants and socialist

• Italian immigrants and anarchists

• Italian immigrants and socialists

Buying on margin was a method of buying stocks

• with mostly borrowed money.

• without using a broker.

• by pooling money with others.

• without any risk.

The stock market crash weakened the nation’s banks because

• banks had invested their deposits in the stock market.

• investors no longer had money to deposit in banks.

• banks depended on their stock for operating funds.

• investors could no longer afford to take out loans from banks.

The Social Security Act of 1935 provides people today with what?

• the right to form a union

• govt. funded medical insurance

• old age pension (retirement benefits)

• insurance on bank deposits

What was the name of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's program to rescue the nation from the Great Depression?

• the Fair Deal

• the New Deal

• the Square Deal

• Rugged Individualism

popularity of African American artists, gospel music, jazz; influenced civil right movement

• Harlem Renaissance

• Great Migration

• Mass- manufacturing

• Flappers

When did Prohibition end ?

• 1926

• 1930

• 1925

• 1933

What was the name for the WWI Veterans who marched on Washington, D.C. demanding early payment of their $1,000 bonus checks?

• The Bonus Protestors

• Hoover's Army

• the WWI Marchers

• the Bonus Army

Who was the gangster who dominated the illegal liquor trade in Chicago through blackmail, bribery, and murder?

• Billy Sunday

• Al Capone

• Aimee Semple McPherson

• Lucky Luciano

On October 29, 1929 share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed and partially caused the Great Depression.

• Black Thursday
• Black Tuesday 
• Black Friday
• Black Sunday