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Roaring 20s and Great Depression

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The Ohio Gang was a

a)

Powerful crime network

b)

Group of Bank Robbers

c)

Group of Harding's friends

d)

Nickname for the Veterans Bureau

2.

What was the famous Harding scandal that involved oil U.S. Navy oil reserves in Wyoming?

a)

Teapot Dome

b)

Hawley Smoot

c)

Coolidge Affair

d)

Exxon Valdez Oil

3.

Calvin Coolidge became president when..

a)

He defeated Harding in 1924

b)

He defeated Hoover in 1924

c)

After Harding was assassinated

d)

After Harding died in office

4.

What bill called for the government to buy up crop surpluses from farmers?

a)

Hawley Smoot

b)

Granger

c)

McNary-Haugen

d)

Cooperative Farming Bill

5.

What car did Henry Ford mass produce?

a)

Model T

b)

Model A

c)

Ford Mustang

d)

Subaru Outback

6.

The United States mindset after World War I in regards to foreign policy was to?

a)

Avoid involvement in world affairs

b)

Exclude Germany from the League of Nations

c)

Get more members to join the League of Nations

d)

Forbid Germany from building up its armed forces

7.

Famous court case that put two men on trial for robbery and because they were anarchists?

a)

Scopes

b)

Monkey

c)

Sacco and Vanzetti

d)

Schneck v. United States

8.

Teacher who was put on trial for teaching evolution in the classroom in Dayton, TN?

a)

Willian Jennings Bryan

b)

John T. Scopes

c)

Clarence Darrow

d)

Calvin Coolidge

9.

What is a long period of rising stock prices called?

a)

Horse Market

b)

Bull Market

c)

Margin Call

d)

Bank Run

10.

Why did Hoover win the Election of 1928?

a)

Prosperity of the 1920s

b)

His reputation as a politician

c)

His promise to end Prohibition

d)

His plan to support farm prices

11.

The Dust Bowl was a result of what?

a)

Drought

b)

Poor farming practices

c)

Crop fungus

d)

Crops decaying and turning into dust

12.

What group of men lead a march on Washington to get an advance on their World War I pensions?

a)

Ku Klux Klan

b)

Hoover's Trips

c)

Prohibitionists

d)

Bonus Army

13.

What amendment got rid of Prohibition?

a)

18th

b)

19th

c)

20th

d)

21st

14.

What amendment changed the presidential inauguration from March to January due to Hoover's lame duck period as president?

a)

18th

b)

19th

c)

20th

d)

21st

15.

___ was a new style of music that was influenced by the Harlem Renaissance and ragtime.

a)

Rock and Roll

b)

Jazz

c)

Classic Rock

d)

Contemporary

16.

Unconventional women of the 1920s were called ___.

a)

Prohibitionists

b)

Suffragists

c)

Abolitionists

d)

Flappers

17.

The ____ Plan of 1924 was an agreement by which American banks would make loans to Germany, enabling it to make reparation payments to Great Britain and France.

a)

Dawes

b)

Hawley Smoot

c)

Haugen

d)

Emergecy Loan

18.

Who made the the first solo flight across the Atlantic?

a)

Amelia Earhart

b)

Charles Lindbergh

c)

Wright Brothers

d)

Henry Ford

19.

Passage of the Emergency Quota Act in 1921 and the ___ in 1924 limited immigration to the United States.

a)

National Immigration Act

b)

National Orgins Act

c)

National Quota

d)

Natvist Act

20.

What act "outlawed" war in 1928 and said it was smarter to settle disputes peacefully?

a)

Kellogg Briand Pact

b)

National War Act

c)

League of Nations

d)

Global Peace Act

21.

What did it mean when you bought a stock for 10% of its costs and took out a loan until you were able to pay it off?

a)

Buying on Margin

b)

Stock Exchange

c)

Installment Plan

d)

Stockbroking

22.

Famous tariff that ruined international trade in 1930?

a)

McNary Haugen

b)

Global Trade

c)

Hawley Smoot

d)

RFC Tariff

23.

Who wrote the book the Grapes of Wrath?

a)

Charles Lindbergh

b)

John Steinbeck

c)

Langston Hughes

d)

Ernster Hemingway

24.

Name the agency created in 1932 with the goal of making and giving loans to banks and businesses for construction projects that could pay for themselves.

a)

Hoover Federal Aid Project

b)

Hoover Publics Works Project

c)

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

d)

Tennessee Valley Authority

25.

What was the surge in African American literature and culture called in the 1920s?

a)

African American Literary Movement

b)

Age of African American Culture

c)

Harlem Renaissance

d)

Jazz Age

26.

Identify the causes of the Great Depression

a)

Low Interest Rates

b)

Overproduction

c)

Uneven Distribution of Wealth

d)

High Tariffs

e)

Laissez Faire

27.

What happened on Oct 29, 1929?

a)

Famous Bank Run

b)

Black Tuesday

c)

Black Thursday

d)

Dust Bowl started

28.

What does this image represent?

a)

Bonus Army Protest

b)

Hooverville

c)

Shantytowns

d)

Homes Henry Ford built for his workers

29.

Who did Hoover run against in the Election of 1932?

a)

FDR

b)

Coolidge

c)

Alfred Smith

d)

Harding

30.

The belief that the market would continue to climb and enabling a person to sell their stock and make money quickly. (One of the causes of the Depression)

a)

Buying on Margin

b)

Installment Plan

c)

Bull Market

d)

Overspeculation