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WorksheetsNC Final Exam Review - Prosperity and Depression
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 24mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Why did the United States economy boom after WWI?
a)
Because a lot of European nations had borrowed money from the US during the war so when the war ended their repayments helped our economy
b)
Because we got a lot of money for winning the war
c)
Because the war didn't cost much to begin with
d)
Because we ended poverty completely
2.
Who was the inventer of the first automobile?
a)
Abraham Lincoln
b)
Henry Ford
c)
The Wright Brothers
d)
Thomas Edison
3.
In what way did mass production change the economy?
a)
Our economy failed
b)
We became a command economy
c)
It made industries grow, gave people jobs, and allowed people to buy consumer goods
d)
It slowed down the way we made things
4.
What is stock?
a)
A big group of animals
b)
A housing community
c)
A share of ownership in a company
d)
When you are the only business in your area of work
5.
Why were the 1920s called the "Roaring Twenties"?
a)
Because there were lions in the United States for the first time
b)
Because you could hear the roar of all of the new airplanes
c)
Because music became very popular
d)
Because people felt life was "roaring" forward like a speeding car. Women began doing things they never did before and there was a ton of new technology and inventions.
6.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
a)
A time when African American musicians, artists, and writers began creating new art, literature, music
b)
A party to celebrate the end of World War 1
c)
When New York left the Union
7.
Who was Langston Hughes?
a)
He was a singer
b)
He was an astronaut
c)
He was a farmer
d)
He was a famous African American poet
8.
After Russia becomes the Soviet Union, the United States experiences its first
a)
Yellow Scare
b)
Brown Scare
c)
Red Scare
d)
Black Scare
9.
Trial of a Tennessee public school biology teacher for teaching the theory of evolution.
a)
Scope's Trial
b)
Red Scare
c)
Fundamentalism
10.
Movement of Southern blacks to urban Northeast, Midwest & West.
a)
Harlem Renaissance
b)
Great Migration
c)
Fundamentalism
11.
Stressed the infallibility of the Bible and believed it a literal historical record.
a)
Fundamentalism
b)
Return to Normalcy
c)
Great Migration
12.
Which economic factor contributed most directly to the start of the Great Depression?
a)
low worker productivity
b)
high income taxes
c)
decreasing tariff rates
d)
buying stocks on margin
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