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1920s and the Great Depression Quick Review

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which event is most closely associated with the start of the Great Depression?

a)

the stock market collapse of 1929

b)

the end of World War I in 1918

c)

the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932

d)

the rise of immigration in 1920

2.

What is one way technology changed the economy in the 1920s?

a)

The Model-T allowed people to drive to work.

b)

Mass production made goods cheap and available.

c)

Radio stations hired thousands of people.

d)

The talkies made everyone rich.

3.

Which of the following was an aim of the New Deal?

a)

to help every person in the world

b)

to give a bank account to every American

c)

to give every American a house

d)

to help Americans and the economy

4.

What two problems caused the Dust Bowl?

a)

bank failures and over-planting

b)

drought and migration

c)

over-planting and drought

d)

World War I and the radio

5.
What was Prohibition?
a)
A complete ban on the sale of food
b)
A complete ban on the sale of clothes
c)
A complete ban on the sale of alcohol
d)
A complete ban on the sale of cars
6.
What was a bootlegger?
a)
Criminals who brought clothing made in other countries into the U.S.
b)
Criminals who brought guns made in other countries into the U.S.
c)
Criminals who brought alcohol made in other countries into the U.S.
7.
Where did many African American artists move to during the 1920s?
a)
Harlem, New York
b)
Atlanta, Georgia
c)
Detroit, Michigan 
8.
What name was given to the great achievements in art and learning by African Americans during the 1920s?
a)
The Roaring 20s
b)
The Best of Times
c)
Harlem Renaissance
9.
True or False: Prohibition was effective.
a)
True
b)
False
10.
Places where people went to drink illegal alcohol and listen to Jazz were called:
a)
Night clubs
b)
Speakeasies
c)
Public houses
d)
Dive bars
11.
What was the impact of the Harlem Renaissance? 
a)
promoted the growth of New York cities
b)
promoted culture identity of African Americans 
c)
it fought discrimination in southern cities
d)
it established programs such as the NAACP
12.
The Harlem Renaissance can best be described as:
a)
The time period in which African Americans joined the war effort during World War I
b)
A time period when African Americans came to the city to look for jobs
c)
A time period in which African Americans fought against the discrimination in New York City
d)
A time period where African Americans celebrated their culture and roots through music, art, and literature
13.
Who was Langston Hughes?
a)
A popular swing dance singer
b)
Owner of a popular Speak Easy 
c)
A famous poet and writer 
d)
A famous actor
14.
Which art form WASN'T represented in the Harlem Renaissance?
a)
painting and art
b)
music and theatre
c)
fiction and poetry
d)
sculpture and architecture
15.

A new breed of young women who wore short skirts, cut their hair into a "bob", and listened and danced to jazz music.

a)

Suffragists

b)

Flappers

c)

Idols

d)

Models

16.

This amendment gave women the right to vote.

a)

15th Amendment

b)

18th Amendment

c)

19th Amendment

d)

21st Amendment

17.

These were fashionable pants men began to wear in the 1920s.

a)

slacks

b)

blue jeans

c)

khakis

d)

knickerbockers

18.

Which 1920s slang word meant "something is cool?"

a)

beeswax

b)

the cat's meow

c)

jalopy

d)

swell

19.
The prejudice against foreign-born people is known as:
a)
Isolationism
b)
Communism
c)
Nativism
d)
Fundamentalism
20.
Chicago was home to which notorious gangster with a bootlegging empire?
a)
Billy Sunday
b)
Nicola Sacco
c)
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
d)
Al Capone
21.
__________ coined the term "Jazz Age" and wrote the Great Gatsby.
a)
Zora Neale Hurston
b)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
c)
Sinclair Lewis
d)
George Gershwin
22.
The Red Scare refers to:
a)
The trampling of individual rights
b)
The panic in the U.S. that followed the Bolshevik Revolution
c)
The robbery and murder of citizens at the hand of anarchists
d)
The trouble facing the U.S. economy during the 1920s
23.
Those who oppose any form of government are
a)
communists
b)
anarchists
c)
socialists
d)
isolationists
24.
The president elected after Herbert Hoover who promised to give America a "New Deal" was _________________.
a)
Franklin Roosevelt
b)
Theodore Roosevelt
c)
Abraham Lincoln
d)
Grover Cleveland
25.
Alphebet Agencies
a)
LBJ's plan for Medicare to provide health insurance to old people
b)
Programs of Roosevelt's New Deal
c)
The stock market crash
d)
The name of Wilson's plan after WWI
26.
During the 1930s, the conditions shown in this photograph occurred mainly
a)
on the Atlantic Coast
b)
 on the Great Plains
c)
in the Rocky Mountains
d)
in the Pacific Northwest
27.
This president thought the federal government should not get involved in the economy. As a result, many Americans blamed him for the Great Depression. This caused him to lose the election in 1932.
a)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
b)
Theodore Rooselvelt
c)
Herbert Hoover
d)
Calvin Coolidge
28.
On October 29, 1929 share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed and partially caused the Great Depression.
a)
Black Thursday
b)
Black Tuesday 
c)
Black Friday
d)
Black Sunday 
29.

The migration of African Americans to the North during and following World War I was mainly a result of the

a)

success of military desegregation

b)

efforts of the civil rights movement

c)

availability of new factory jobs

d)

impact of affirmative action programs

30.

What was the American government's response to the fear of the spread of communism in the 1920s?

a)

Immigration Quota

b)

KKK Revival

c)

Shutting down Ellis Island

d)

Chinese Exclusion Act

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