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Jazz Age, Roaring 20s/Great Depression/New Deal

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 10mins

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Class

Date

A time in America following the roaring 20's where America experience rising unemployment that did not end until the onset of World War II.

New Deal

Roaring 20's

Great Depression

Cold War

What is another name for the Stock Market Crash?

Black Friday

Taco Tuesday

Black Tuesday

Throwback Thursday

What event valued stocks lower than their worth and caused people to panic, lose their jobs, homes and life savings?

Black Friday

Stock Market Crash

The First Day of School

The Solar Eclipse

Who was elected president because he had a plan to pull America out of the Great Depression?

William McKinley

Woodrow Wilson

Theodore Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

What was the name of FDR's plan to reconstruct America following the Great Depression?

No Deal

New Deal

Reconstruction

FDR's Plan

During the 1930s, poor land management and severe drought conditions across parts of the Midwest resulted in the

formation of the United States Department of Agriculture

creation of wheat surpluses

growth of the Populist movement

development of Dust Bowl conditions on the Great Plains

FDR addressed the American public in weekly broadcasts known as:

FDR Hour

Hangin' With Franklin

Fireside Chats

Around the Fire

As part of the New Deal, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) were created to

allow for a quick recovery of stock prices

provide direct loans to businesses

protect individual investors from stock fraud and bank failure

allow banks and companies to invest in the stock market

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) were both New Deal programs developed to address the problem of

excessive stock market speculation

high unemployment

increased use of credit

limited income of senior citizens

10.

A major result of the New Deal was that it

eliminated poverty in the US

extended the merit system in the civil service

destroyed the private enterprise system

greatly increased the size and power of the Federal Government

11.

What is the name of the movement which promoted the growth of African-American culture and later influenced the civil rights movement?

Great Migration

Harlem Renaissance

Back to Africa Movement

Temperance Movement

12.

What innovation, embraced by Henry Ford, made the production of automobiles more efficient (cheaper, faster, better)?

Bessemer Process

Just-In-Time Technology

Assembly Line

Time-Study Analysis

13.

What movement during the 1920s caused many Americans to fear immigrants because they thought they could be communists?

Red Scare

Americanization Movement

Social Gospel Movement

Social Darwinism

14.

What belief system encouraged immigration quotas and the rise of the KKK during the 1920s?

Social Gospel

Civil Rights Movement

Nativism

NAACP

15.

What scandal during the 1920s led to public disappointments over revelations of corrupt government?

Teapot Dome Scandal

Watergate Scandal

Clinton Impeachment

All of the above

16.

Flappers during the 1920s -

confronted discrimination in employment and education

challenged traditional attitudes and social norms.

joined the Army and fought in combat

refused to use their 19th Amendment rights

17.

Which amendment to the US Constitution began the Prohibition Era?

18.

What 2 men were opposing lawyers in the Scopes Monkey Trial?

William Jennings Bryan & Clarence Darrow

Charles Lindbergh & Glenn Curtiss

Marcus Garvey & Booker T. Washington

Henry Ford & Andrew Carnegie

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Jazz Age, Roaring 20s/Great Depression/New Deal

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 10mins

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