Unit 2 Review

What is considered the main cause of the Great Depression in the United States?

• the outbreak of World War II

• the growth of the Harlem Renaissance

• the rise of dictatorships

• the crash of the stock market

How did the popularity of buying on credit impact the economy of the United States in the 1920s?

• It allowed people to borrow money that they could not pay back.

• It decreased the standard of living.

• It increased taxes on the lower classes.

• It increased the value of most farmed goods.

As part of his New Deal program, President Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced the Social Security program and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. What do these two programs have in common?

• They both provided jobs for unemployed Americans.

• They are both still in existence to help American citizens.

• They both provided immediate help to people struggling during the Depression.

• They both made conditions in the Depression worse for Americans.

The Harlem Renaissance was a period in American history where African American culture, mostly in the form of music and art, grew in popularity. What was one cause of the Harlem Renaissance?

• the election of African Americans into positions of political power

• the growth of national forms of media like the radio

• the destruction of the southern sharecropping system

• the migration of African Americans into northern cities

How did the United States’ involvement in World War I change the course of the war?

• The introduction of fresh troops weakened the effectiveness of the Allied war effort.

• The Central Powers were able to gain control of the war while the American soldiers were disorganized.

• The Allied Powers were unable to support the number of troops the United States brought to the front lines.

• The addition of American troops and supplies tipped the war in favor of the Allies.

To what event is Langston Hughes referring in this poem? One Way Ticket I am fed up With Jim Crow laws, People who are cruel And afraid Who lynch and run, Who are scared of me And me of them. I pick up my life And take it away On a one way ticket Gone up North Gone out West Gone! - Langston Hughes, 1926

• the Great Migration

• the invention of the automobile

• Prohibition

• women's suffrage

How did women have a positive impact on the war efforts of World War I and World War II?

• Women took positions in the military where they planned strategies for key battles.

• Women took positions as frontlines soldiers in the war effort.

• Women worked in factory jobs that were opened when men left for war.

• Women became politicians and created laws to benefit soldiers as they returned from war.

Why was the period after World War I often called the Roaring Twenties in the United States?

• It was a period of isolation.

• It was a period of many cultural changes.

• It was a period of conflict.

• It was a period of economic depression.

This is a chart that shows the three main goals of a series of policies passed in the 1930s. What was the name of this series of policies?

• the Great Depression

• the Great Migration

• the New Deal

• the Red Scare

This is a headline from The Daily Oklahoman. What military strategy caused the event described in this headline?

• restricted submarine warfare

• total warfare

• two-front warfare

• unrestricted submarine warfare