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WorksheetsRoaring 20s and Great Depression
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
The Ohio Gang was a
Powerful crime network
Group of Bank Robbers
Group of Harding's friends
Nickname for the Veterans Bureau
What was the famous Harding scandal that involved oil U.S. Navy oil reserves in Wyoming?
Teapot Dome
Hawley Smoot
Coolidge Affair
Exxon Valdez Oil
Calvin Coolidge became president when..
He defeated Harding in 1924
He defeated Hoover in 1924
After Harding was assassinated
After Harding died in office
What bill called for the government to buy up crop surpluses from farmers?
Hawley Smoot
Granger
McNary-Haugen
Cooperative Farming Bill
What car did Henry Ford mass produce?
Model T
Model A
Ford Mustang
Subaru Outback
The United States mindset after World War I in regards to foreign policy was to?
Avoid involvement in world affairs
Exclude Germany from the League of Nations
Get more members to join the League of Nations
Forbid Germany from building up its armed forces
Famous court case that put two men on trial for robbery and because they were anarchists?
Scopes
Monkey
Sacco and Vanzetti
Schneck v. United States
Teacher who was put on trial for teaching evolution in the classroom in Dayton, TN?
Willian Jennings Bryan
John T. Scopes
Clarence Darrow
Calvin Coolidge
What is a long period of rising stock prices called?
Horse Market
Bull Market
Margin Call
Bank Run
Why did Hoover win the Election of 1928?
Prosperity of the 1920s
His reputation as a politician
His promise to end Prohibition
His plan to support farm prices
The Dust Bowl was a result of what?
Drought
Poor farming practices
Crop fungus
Crops decaying and turning into dust
What group of men lead a march on Washington to get an advance on their World War I pensions?
Ku Klux Klan
Hoover's Trips
Prohibitionists
Bonus Army
What amendment got rid of Prohibition?
18th
19th
20th
21st
What amendment changed the presidential inauguration from March to January due to Hoover's lame duck period as president?
18th
19th
20th
21st
___ was a new style of music that was influenced by the Harlem Renaissance and ragtime.
Rock and Roll
Jazz
Classic Rock
Contemporary
Unconventional women of the 1920s were called ___.
Prohibitionists
Suffragists
Abolitionists
Flappers
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.
Dawes
Hawley Smoot
Haugen
Emergecy Loan
Who made the the first solo flight across the Atlantic?
Amelia Earhart
Charles Lindbergh
Wright Brothers
Henry Ford
Passage of the Emergency Quota Act in 1921 and the ___ in 1924 limited immigration to the United States.
National Immigration Act
National Orgins Act
National Quota
Natvist Act
What act "outlawed" war in 1928 and said it was smarter to settle disputes peacefully?
Kellogg Briand Pact
National War Act
League of Nations
Global Peace Act
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?
Buying on Margin
Stock Exchange
Installment Plan
Stockbroking
Famous tariff that ruined international trade in 1930?
McNary Haugen
Global Trade
Hawley Smoot
RFC Tariff
Who wrote the book the Grapes of Wrath?
Charles Lindbergh
John Steinbeck
Langston Hughes
Ernster Hemingway
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.
Hoover Federal Aid Project
Hoover Publics Works Project
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Tennessee Valley Authority
What was the surge in African American literature and culture called in the 1920s?
African American Literary Movement
Age of African American Culture
Harlem Renaissance
Jazz Age
Identify the causes of the Great Depression
Low Interest Rates
Overproduction
Uneven Distribution of Wealth
High Tariffs
Laissez Faire
What happened on Oct 29, 1929?
Famous Bank Run
Black Tuesday
Black Thursday
Dust Bowl started
What does this image represent?
Bonus Army Protest
Hooverville
Shantytowns
Homes Henry Ford built for his workers
Who did Hoover run against in the Election of 1932?
FDR
Coolidge
Alfred Smith
Harding
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)
Buying on Margin
Installment Plan
Bull Market
Overspeculation
