American History Quizs

I was a program that put young men to work on environmental projects like planting trees and building parks.

• Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

• National Park Service (NPS)

• Job Corps

I was an African American cultural movement centered in New York City. I celebrated Black art, music, and literature.

• Harlem Renaissance

• Civil Rights Movement

• Black Arts Movement

• Jazz Age

I helped define the Jazz Age with my trumpet and improvisational genius.

• Louis Armstrong

• Duke Ellington

• Miles Davis

• Charlie Parker

I was a critic of FDR’s New Deal who proposed a “Share Our Wealth” program.

• Huey Long

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Herbert Hoover

• John Maynard Keynes

I was FDR’s plan to expand the Supreme Court so he could pass more New Deal laws, but it was very controversial.

• Court Packing Plan

• New Deal Initiative

• Judicial Reform Act

• Supreme Court Expansion Bill

I was a fear of communism that swept America after World War I, leading to the Palmer Raids.

• Red Scare

• Cold War

• McCarthyism

• The Great Depression

I was a natural disaster that destroyed farms in the Midwest during the 1930s, worsening the Depression.

• Dust Bowl

• Hurricane Katrina

• Great Flood

• Earthquake of 1906

I was the president when the Great Depression began. Many Americans criticized my "hands-off" approach.

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Herbert Hoover

• Calvin Coolidge

• Harry S. Truman

I was a name for makeshift homeless villages during the Depression, named after a president blamed for economic troubles.

• Hoovervilles

• Roosevelt Towns

• Coolidge Camps

• Wilson Villages

I was a devastating stock market crash in 1929 that marked the beginning of the Great Depression.

• Black Tuesday

• Black Monday

• Black Friday

• Black Thursday