Worksheets1920s and 1930s
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which decade saw the rise of the automobile, the red scare, and Scopes Trial?
a)
1910s
b)
1920s
c)
1930s
d)
1940s
2.
Which decade saw bank failures, the Dust Bowl, and the New Deal?
a)
1910s
b)
1920s
c)
1930s
d)
1940s
3.
What was a result of Prohibition?
a)
Increased Immigration
b)
Fear of Communism
c)
Rise of organized crime
d)
Growth of the economy
4.
Which trial saw the conflict between Modernism and Traditionalism?
a)
Sacco and Vanzetti
b)
Scopes Trial
c)
Schenck v. United States
d)
Korematsu v. United States
5.
Which scandal saw a Cabinet member jailed for corruption?
a)
Zimmerman Note
b)
Teapot Dome
c)
Tweed Ring
d)
Court-Packing Scheme
6.
Why were immigrants deported in the 1920s?
a)
Increased competition for jobs
b)
Communists were infiltrating the United States
c)
Political Machines had too much power
d)
Assimilation programs were unsuccessful
7.
Which movement made Jazz popular?
a)
Return to Normalcy
b)
Harlem Renaissance
c)
Nativism
d)
Great Migration
8.
The Mexican Repatriation Act and immigration quotas from Europe show an increase in-
a)
government corruption
b)
interventionist foreign policy
c)
laissez faire economics
d)
Nativist attitudes
9.
What program wanted high tariffs for imports and isolationism?
a)
New Freedom
b)
Square Deal
c)
New Deal
d)
Return to Normalcy
10.
Why did African Americans move North during the Great Migration?
a)
Homestead Act
b)
Jobs in factories
c)
Nativism in the South
d)
Lower cost of living in cities
11.
Who used the assembly line to mass produce automobiles?
a)
Glenn Curtis
b)
Thomas Edision
c)
Henry Ford
d)
John Rockerfeller
12.
The dust bowl occurred on the -
a)
Atlantic Coast
b)
Rock Mountains
c)
Great Plains
d)
Great Lakes
13.
Buying stocks on margin led to this crisis of 1929-
a)
Dust Bowl
b)
Bank Failures
c)
Hoovervilles
d)
Stock Market Crash
14.
Which New Deal program targeted the problem faced by bank failures?
a)
AAA
b)
FDIC
c)
Social Security
d)
SEC
15.
Which scandal saw the President attempt to take over the Judical Branch?
a)
Zimmerman Note
b)
Tweed Ring
c)
Teapot Dome
d)
Court Packing Scheme
16.
Which New Deal agency prevents fraud in the Stock Market?
a)
FDIC
b)
SEC
c)
CCC
d)
Social Security
17.
Which New Deal agency provided electricity to people in need?
a)
TVA
b)
CCC
c)
WPA
d)
AAA
18.
What was an effect of the New Deal?
a)
International trade declined
b)
Government became responsible for the poor
c)
Women entered the workforce for the first time
d)
New monopolies formed
19.
Which was NOT a cause of the Great Depression
a)
High Tariffs
b)
New immigrants
c)
Buying on credit
d)
Bank failures
20.
Why did FDR want to take over the Supreme Court?
a)
They wanted to enter WWII
b)
They declared parts of the New Deal illegal
c)
They did not support isolationism
d)
They banned new immigrants
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