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US History Standard 6

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 1hrs 1mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Which of the following is a characteristic of daily life in the 1920s? 
a)
Many Americans lost all of their money in the Stock Market crash.
b)
Many Americans did not have jobs and there were failed banks and businesses. 
c)
Many Americans experienced an economic boom, furthered by new technologies.
d)
All Americans experienced an economic boom, furthered by new technologies.
2.
What is the significance of the 19th Amendment? 
a)
Women became citizens.
b)
African Americans became citizens.
c)
Women were granted the right to vote.
d)
African Americans were granted the right to vote.
3.
What positive effect did the migration north have on African Americans? 
a)
Segregation
b)
Jim Crow Laws
c)
New job oppurtunities
d)
New sharecropping opportunities
4.
Which of the following best describes a factor that led to the crash of the stock market?
a)
Many Americans began buying more stocks 
b)
Values of stocks increased due to mass production 
c)
Factories were not able to produce goods for consumers 
d)
Factories were overproducing and began to lay off workers 
5.
Which of the following was an effect of unemployment during the Great Depression?
a)
Consumers rushed to put all of their money in the banks.
b)
Consumers made many purchases, so businesses boomed. 
c)
Consumers could not or did not want to buy, so some businesses failed.
d)
Consumers could not buy goods fast enough before businesses sold out.
6.
What is an appropriate title for the chart below? 
·  Assisted with the feeding and housing of the poorest America citizens
·  Put money into the hands of consumers, who spent it, and helped businesses recover
Attempted to reform the system and prevent another economic crisis
a)
Goals of the New Deal
b)
Causes of World War II
c)
Life During the Roaring 20s
d)
Causes of the Great Depression
7.
What was a result of the government’s response to the Great Depression?
a)
The role of the federal government increased.
b)
The role of the federal government decreased.
c)
There was no change in the role of the government. 
d)
The government’s response quickly ended the Great Depression.
8.
Works Progress Administration
Cash and Carry
Sit-Down Strike
John Steinbeck- Grapes of Wrath
Social Security Act
a)
1910s
b)
1920s
c)
1930s
d)
1940s
9.

The Stock Market crashed at the end of the 1920s.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

Which war took place during the 1920s?

a)

World War I

b)

World War II

c)

Both of the wars

d)

Neither of the wars.

11.
Who was Langston Hughes?
a)
He was a singer
b)
He was an astronaut
c)
He was a farmer
d)
He was a famous African American poet
12.
Flappers in the 1920s represented 
a)
the traditional roles of women.
b)
new roles and attitudes for women.
c)
support for Prohibition.
d)
rural fundamentalism.
13.
Which of these resulted from the prohibition of alcohol during the 1920s?
a)
A decline in immigration rates
b)
A growing fear of communism
c)
The expansion of the consumer economy
d)
The rise of organized crime
14.
Which amendment started Prohibition?
a)
18th
b)
19th
c)
20th
d)
21st
15.
According to the map, where were African Americans migrating from?
a)
The East
b)
The North
c)
The South
d)
The Midwest
16.
During the Great Migration, African Americans moved from
a)
South to West
b)
East to West
c)
South to North
d)
North to South
17.
What did prohibition make illegal? 
a)
Alcohol
b)
Food
c)
Paintings
d)
Nothing
18.
What type of music was popularized during the Harlem Renaissance?
a)
Jazz
b)
Hip Hop
c)
Country
d)
Rock
19.
These people made and smuggled alcohol illegally, they often put bottles in their boots. 
a)
Bootleggers
b)
Bootarmers
c)
Leg Booters
d)
Reform
20.
Harlem is in which city?
a)
New York City
b)
Boston
c)
Richmond
d)
Baltimore
21.
The Harlem Renaissance drew upon the heritage of the ________ _________ culture. 
a)
White
b)
African American
c)
Asian
d)
Indian
22.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

a)

Novelist who wrote about the Jazz Age of the 1920s

b)

composer who described the unique beauty of America through music

c)

artist known for urban scenes and paintings of the Southwest

d)

novelist who portrayed the strength of the poor migrant workers during the 1903s

23.
What were illegal places where people drank alcohol called?
a)
speakeasies
b)
speaksoftly
c)
cellars 
d)
hidden spots
24.
This was a major innovation found in most homes by the end of the 20s.
a)
Radio
b)
Television
c)
Telephone
d)
Microwave.
25.

Thinking that those from one's own country are better than immigrants from other countries

a)

Patriotism

b)

Feminism

c)

Nativism

d)

Segregation

26.
Reduced how many immigrants can come to America
a)
KKK
b)
Organized Crime
c)
Emergency Quota Act
d)
The Scopes Trial
27.
Hated anyone who didn't look or act like them:
a)
KKK
b)
The Scopes Trial
c)
Speakeasies
d)
Nativism
28.

In what way did mass production change the economy?

a)

Our economy failed between 1920-1925.

b)

It created a way to grow corn faster.

c)

It made industries grow, gave people jobs, and allowed people to buy consumer goods.

d)

It slowed down the way we made things.

29.
What is stock?
a)
A big group of animals
b)
A housing community
c)
A share of ownership in a company
d)
When you are the only business in your area of work
30.
What caused the Great Depression?
a)
People borrowed a lot of money and invested in the stock market.  When the stock market crashed, panicked stockholders sold their stocks and a lot of people and business lost money
b)
When we spent all of our money during Reconstruction
c)
When we had no money because of WWII
31.

What was it called when a severe drought* in the Great Plains destroyed crops and blew loose dust and dirt all over? *Drought=no water

a)

Desert Storm

b)

Pearl Harbor

c)

Dust Bowl

d)

Great Depression

32.

What president was blamed for the Great Depression?

a)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

b)

George W. Bush

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

Herbert Hoover

33.

What did Franklin D. Roosevelt do to help with the Great Depression?

a)

He created the New Deal, which is a series of government programs to help American People in poverty

b)

He closed the Stock Market for good.

c)

He gave the United States a different type of military.

d)

He asked that everyone get paid more at their jobs.

34.

Built Dams to provide cheap electric power and flood control to seven southern states; set up schools and health centers.

a)

Tennesse valley Authority (TVA)

b)

National Recover Administration (NRA)

c)

Securtiy Exchange Comission (SEC)

d)

National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)

35.

Provided Jobs for young men to plant trees, build bridges, dams and park, set up flood-control projects, and work on other conservation projects. (1933)

a)

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

b)

National Youth Administration (NYA)

c)

Social Security Act (SSA)

d)

Work Progress Administration (WPA)

36.

Which president helped Americans get out of the Great Depression?

a)

Woodrow Wilson

b)

Herbert Hoover

c)

Theodore Roosevelt

d)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

37.

Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed the American public in weekly radio broadcasts known as ______________. These helped Americans feel close to others in the country and hopeful.

a)

FDR Hour

b)

Hangin' With Franklin

c)

Fireside Chats

d)

Around the Fire

38.

This program started by FDR (Franklin D. Roosevelt) helped people after they retired

a)

Social Security Act

b)

TVA

c)

Stock Market Advice

d)

CCC

39.
This natural disaster served to worsen the effects of the Great Depression on Farmers in the Midwest 
a)
Tornados
b)
Dust Bowl
c)
Black Tuesday 
d)
Hurricanes
40.
When people went to the bank to withdraw their money and the banks had no money was known as the 
a)
Bank Crisis 
b)
Black Tuesday
c)
Stock Market Crash
d)
New Deal 
41.
The Agricultural Adjustment Agency (AAA) helped farmers get crop prices under control. This is an example of:
a)
Relief
b)
Recovery
c)
Reform 
42.
The name given to the programs enforced by FDR to ensure relief, recovery and reform. 
a)
Stock Market 
b)
Great Depression
c)
Margin 
d)
New Deal 
43.
Programs that were put into place to ensure the causes of the Great Depression were addressed and corrected to ensure the Depression would not happen again 
a)
Relief 
b)
Recovery
c)
Reform 
44.
Programs that were put into place to put Americans back to work completing government funded projects
a)
Relief 
b)
Recovery
c)
Reform 
45.
This President enforced both New Deals and saw America through the Great Depression and World War II. 
a)
Eisenhower
b)
Truman
c)
Hoover
d)
Roosevelt 
46.
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 
47.
This New Deal program insured the public's deposits to make sure that the bank runs never happened again 
a)
PWA
b)
WPA
c)
SSA
d)
FDIC
48.
This new deal program put unemployed American to work on completing government funded public projects
a)
PWA
b)
FDIC
c)
CCC
d)
AAA 
49.
Even though war was breaking out in Europe again, America decided to remain 
a)
Isolated
b)
Involved with the Allies
c)
Involved with the Axis
d)
Scared
50.
When FDR closed all the banks and did not allow them to reopen until they were stable 
a)
Bank closures
b)
Bank retreats
c)
Bank Holiday
d)
Margin Holiday 

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