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USII 6-20th Century Changes Review

Total questions: 27

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who launched the moving assembly line for automobile production? Soon the automobile created more jobs: car repair, car dealers, gas stations, car wash, delivery

a)

Wright Brothers

b)

Ford

c)

DuBois

d)

Edison

2.
Which development powered labor saving devices in the home?
a)
electrification
b)
natural gas pipelines
c)
windmills
d)
new coal mining techniques
3.

Which constitutional amendment outlawed the manufacture and sale of Alcohol?

a)

17th

b)

18th

c)

19th

d)

21st

4.

Places that sold illegal alcohol during the 1920's were called

a)

bootlegging establishments

b)

speakeasies

c)

vamps

d)

flappers

5.

The end of the Prohibition era and alcohol becoming legal again-

a)

passage of the Volstead act

b)

21st Amendment in 1933

c)

arrest of Al Capone

d)

start of the Great Depression in 1929

6.

Who invented the first motor powered, piloted fight in 1903?

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

Alexander Graham Bell

c)

George Washington Carver

d)

Wright Brothers

7.

The items advertised are considered what name in the 1920s? These replace traditional labor and allowed more leisure time

a)

Mobile Phones

b)

Labor Saving Devices

c)

Labor Intensive Products

d)

Coal Fired Devices

8.

Who did the Great Depression impact THE MOST with the economics and the drought of the 1930s

a)

Insurance Salesmen

b)

Farmers

c)

Teachers

d)

Artists

9.

How many Amercans were out of work during the Depression

a)

100%

b)

15%

c)

95%

d)

25%

10.

Writer from California who wrote tales of poor migrant workers during the Dust Bowl era

a)

Morgan Freeman

b)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

c)

John Steinbeck

d)

John Grisham

11.

Which president created 70 "alphabet" government programs to help Americans get back to work during the Great Depression?

a)

Herbert Hoover

b)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

c)

Woodrow Wilson

d)

George Washington

12.

Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong were composers of what genre of music during the Harlem Renaissance

a)

Hip Hop

b)

Classical

c)

Punk

d)

Jazz

13.

Choose the three (3) writers associated with the Harlem Renaissance-

a)

Duke Ellington

b)

Zora Neale Hurston

c)

Louis Armstong

d)

Langston Hughes

e)

Jessie Redmon Fauset

14.

This Harlem Renaissance artist series told the African American experience migrating North

a)

Georgia O'Keeffe

b)

Jacob Lawrence

c)

Jackson Pollock

d)

Wilma Rudolph

15.

What is the subject of this panel #49 of Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series?

a)

inclusion

b)

education

c)

discrimination

d)

job opportunties

16.

What is the subject of this panel #38 of Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series?

a)

inclusion

b)

education

c)

discrimination

d)

job opportunties

17.

What is the subject of this panel of Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series?

a)

inclusion

b)

education

c)

discrimination

d)

job opportunties

18.
Which program cleared the river valley in Tennesee and brought electricity to these rural parts near the river?
a)
CCC
b)
WPA
c)
TVA
d)
FDIC
19.

The rebirth of African American arts and culture centered in NYC is known as:

a)

The Industrial Revolution

b)

The Harlem Renaissance

c)

Napoleonic Era

d)

Edwardian period

20.

The Great Migration refers to

a)

The movement of African Americans from the south to the north

b)

The movement of African Americans from the north to the south

c)

The spread of African culture after slavery ended

d)

The advocacy of political union of all the indigenous inhabitants of Africa

21.

True/False:

Upon arriving North, African Americans had a better economic opportunity; but still found segregation and discrimination in Northern and Western cities

a)

True

b)

False

22.

Artist that was known for their paintings of urban (city) settings, and later the desert landscape of the Southwest.

a)

Georgia O'Keefe

b)

Jacob Lawrence

c)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

d)

Aaron Copland.

23.

Author that wrote about the fast-pace lifestyle of the 1920s and the newness of the Jazz Age. Most famous book is The Great Gatsby.

a)

Langston Hughes

b)

Jacob Lawrence

c)

George Gershwin

d)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

24.

Harlem Renaissance musician that played the trumpet, sang, and was nicknamed "Satchmo."

a)

Bessie Smith

b)

Duke Ellington

c)

Louis Armstrong

d)

Benny Goodman

25.

What was the "New Deal" of the 1930s?

a)

a government program that gave free land to homesteaders

b)

a government program that helped women get the vote

c)

a government program that spread civil rights throughout the country

d)

a government program designed to help people and create jobs during the depression

26.

What is the NAME of this famous photograph taken by DOROTHEA LANGE in 1936 showing the struggle of farmers and their families?

a)

Young Farmers

b)

Bad Mother

c)

Migrant Mother

d)

Unhappy Mother

27.

Tuskegee Institute founder who worked with Julius Rosenwald in the early 20th cenutry to improve educational opportunities for African Americans in the South-

a)

W.E.B. Du Bois

b)

Rosa Parks

c)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

d)

Booker T. Washington