Worksheets2024 ESL WWI, 20s, and 30s Review
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 23mins
What was the purpose of the Bill of Rights?
To protect individual rights
To establish government rights
To establish a list of restricted rights
Who proved to be the most willing to use the government to solve economic problems of the American people?
President Roosevelt
President Hoover
President Coolidge
Who committed Graft in the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Warren Harding
Frances Perkins
Albert Fall
Jefferson wrote what document that listed the North American colonies' grievances that justified revolution against England?
Articles of Confederation
Constitution
Declaration of Independence
What was the purpose of Social Security?
Provide a financial safety net for retired Americans
Established a social network to help worker find jobs
To insure bank accounts in case of bank failures
What is the preferential treatment of native born Americans or exclusion of a group based on national origin called?
Selective pairing
Progressivism
Nativism
Teddy Roosevelt’s domestic policy, the Square Deal, dealt with …
Tariffs, Banks, and Trusts
Conservation, Consumers, and Corporations
Immigration, Tariffs, and Conservation
Which describes the Civilian Conservation Corps?
Make-work programs to build dams, bridges and hospitals in and around cities.
Building or repairing trails and buildings in remote national parks creating jobs for men 18-25.
Provides funding to save or establish companies that will create jobs, mainly in construction.
When President Wilson asked Congress to declare war on the Central Powers it was because he felt the United States needed to do so in order to...
Increase our world influence by increasing our area of hegemony
Establish a blocking action against newly communist Russia
Make the world safe for democracy
Membership in the alliance of the League of Nations could obligate the U.S. into a future war is why the American senate refused to take what action?
Ratify the Treaty of Versailles
Declare war on Japan
Authorize the colonization of the Marshall Islands
Why is the year 1898 significant to U.S. History?
The Civil War came to an overdue bitter end that left the American South occupied.
Victory over Spain gained territories for the US to become a world power.
The U.S. ends isolationism to join the allies and "make the world safe for democracy".
What program propelled Americans change attitudes from self reliance to a belief the government needs to be responsible for the well being
The Social Gospel Movement
Jim Crow system
The New Deal
What method did workers of the Gilded Age use to win better conditions and rights on the job?
Filibustering
Collective bargaining
Industrialization
The Roosevelt Corollary declared the United States will oversee the affairs of...
The Pacific Islands
The Western Hemisphere
The Eastern Hemisphere
A person who uses their political office for personal enrichment is guilty of what crime?
Blackmail
Bootlegging
Graft
Seeking better employment opportunities in the Northern cities, African Americans left the south in a movement known as the …
Exodusters
Great Migration
Manifest Destiny
Which of the following are noted examples of American ingenuity?
Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh
Calvin Coolidge and Andrew Mellon
Henry Cabot Lodge and Eugene Debbs
What group fought against the society's double standards of the past?
Gold Diggers
Flappers
Suffragettes
Fundamentalism was pitted against what in the Scopes trial?
Religion
Evolution
Reformation
The rise of organized crime was an unforeseen effect of...
The 21st Amendment
The 19th Amendment
The 18th Amendment
Why is Langston Hughes worthy of note?
Artist of the Harlem Renaissance
Jazz Musician of the Harlem Renaissance
Author/Poet of the Harlem Renaissance
Veterans who marched on Washington in 1932 seeking an early payment from congress became known as the...
Reservationists
Bonus Army
Buffalo Soldiers
This 1929 event is what marks the start of the Great Depression.
World War I begins
Stock Market Crash
Spanish American War
High unemployment is a characteristic of what kind of economy?
Expanding
Depression
Stagnant
As unemployment increases there is less buying power which means less demand. How do manufacturers respond to that situation?
No change, they maintain production levels to ride out the downturn
They increase production to compensate for the lower prices they can charge
They reduce production to reflect the lower demand levels
Overproduction/underconsumption in the 1920s was the main, overriding...
Cause of Westward expansion
Cause of industrialism
Cause of The Great Depression
Lack of banking regulations led to …..
A prosperous, growing middle class
Americans losing savings because of bank failures
A shrinking consumer oriented government
What caused a major reduction in World Trade at the beginning of the 1930s?
The Dawes Plan
Hawley Smoot Tariff
Teapot Dome
Extensive drought and poor farming techniques coming into the early 1930s lead to the
Dust Bowl
Great Migration
Roosevelt Corollary
What did Herbert Hoover do for the Great Depression?
Intensive aid packages
Too little too late
Complete reorganization of the government
What did the Brain Trust do?
They were the talented tenth from Dubois’s plan for equality
They opposed the Treaty of Versailles in the Senate
They helped create the New Deal as FDR waited to be inaugurated
Which was created by The Glass-Steagall Act to protect bank accounts.
SEC
CCC
FDIC
Which Presidential policy reflects the belief that sometimes the government needs to contribute to and /or direct business activity?
a. The Square Deal
a. The New Deal
a. Return to Normalcy
Refugees of the Dust Bowl migrated to the west coast from what devastated region?
The American South
The Great Plains
The Midwest
FDR’s New Deal programs got the government more involved in …..
International trade and immigration
Hollywood entertainment and propaganda
Business activity and labor relations
Chosen to be Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins held what significance?
First woman to serve on a presidential cabinet
First woman to serve as a committee head in Congress
First woman to negotiate a trade agreement with Great Britain
What was the relationship like between FDR and Congress?
Strained since Congress was trying to limit FDR’s actions
Congress pretty much let FDR run the country
Adversarial since each tried to take the lead dealing with the Depression.
The Civilian Conservation Corps is best described in which manner?
a federal program that provides jobs for local community projects
placing Americans on the front in The Great War
employed young men 18-25 years old to develop National Parks
Who went among the people for FDR to see, and hear what the American people thought, wanted, or needed?
Frances Perkins
Eleanor Roosevelt
Huey Long
Open immigration ends and a national origin quota system based on the percentages of the last year of open immigration is a form of nativism put in place by...
Immigration Act of 1924
The Social Security Administration
The International Equity Program
What helped focus Americans on supporting the war effort?
The Food Administration
The sale of Liberty bonds
The Creel Commission
Which pair are considered strong critics of FDR's New Deal?
Long and Coughlin
Lodge and Truman
Sinclair and Riis
Which New Deal programs provided Relief (direct aid)?
FDIC and FHA
Social Security and SEC
CCC and WPA
Which of the following New Deal programs is among the “Five that Survive”?
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Social Security Administration
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
What created the conditions needed to end the Great Depression?
The New Deal
WW II
The end of Prohibition
