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Unit 4 Review 1920s and 1930s

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What did the 18th amendment specifically ban?

a)

Americans must purchase at 18 years old

b)

only imported liquor can be soldThis is a wrong answer

c)

alcoholic beverages could be sold only in government stores

d)

the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages was banned

2.

What was a major result of Prohibition in the United States during the 1920s?

a)

increase in organized crime

b)

destruction of family values

c)

growth of communism

d)

restriction of immigration

3.

What was the Scopes Trial about?

a)

creation is the only way to teach

b)

creation v. evolution

c)

evolution is the only way to teach

d)

creation v. the bible

4.

“Public Ignores Prohibition Restrictions” “Evolution and Creation Debated ” “Women Bring Change" means what?

a)

trend toward mass consumption of consumer

b)

goods hostility of certain groups toward ethnic minorities

c)

conflict between traditional and modern values

d)

debate over the role of government in the economy

5.

What were flappers like in the 1920s?

a)

long skirts and shirts, no makeup

b)

bobbed hair, wore makeup and shorter skirts

c)

loved to dance and go to church

d)

bobbed hair, hated makeup, and longer skirts

6.

Why did many African Americans move toward cities in the North?

a)

the start of the Harlem Renaissance

b)

passed in Northern States to end racial discrimination

c)

increased job opportunities in Northern cities

d)

Federal Government job-training programs

7.

What happened in several northern cities as a result of the rapid migration of African Americans?

a)

race riots

b)

intergration

c)

less discrimination to African Americans

d)

economic depression and religion

8.

What were Booker T. Washington’s beliefs for equality?

a)

The best solution was to return to Africa

b)

dissolve the barriers of segregation and an end to Jim Crow

c)

Social equality for would be easier to achieve than rights.

d)

to achieve equality was to expand vocational training

9.

How did W.E.B. Dubois think blacks would achieve equality?

a)

setting up a separate nation within the United States

b)

taking over the leadership of the two political parties

c)

entering vocational training programs in separate schools

d)

demanding full and immediate participation in society

10.

Which is not a factor that lead to the Harlem Renaissance?

a)

Mass migration of African Americans

b)

Increased desire to express themselves through art, poetry

c)

Increased federal government protections

d)

activism related to civil rights progress

11.

What two new technologies caused major changes in popular culture?

a)

motion pictures & radios

b)

phonographs and televisions

c)

microphones and antennas

d)

telephones & telegraphs

12.

How did the radio impact society?

a)

It heightened consumer interest in television

b)

It increased access to news and entertainment

c)

It heightened consumer interest in television

d)

It stimulated greater readership of newspapers

13.

Which of the following was NOT a new invention of the 1920’s?

a)

TV

b)

radio

c)

car

d)

refrigerator

14.

What gave Americans more independence/mobility in the 1920s?

a)

More access to cars

b)

Entertainment on radio

c)

Rise of the Populist movement

d)

Entertainment on radio

15.

Which on was NOT part of the economic boom of the 1920’s?

a)

installment buying

b)

inventions

c)

an unregulated stock market

d)

expansion of civil rights to women and minorities

16.

How did the availability of credit impact consumers?

a)

Consumerism- more spending

b)

Savings increased

c)

no regulation of banks

d)

trust busting

17.

Why were people buying on credit?

a)

they had too much money

b)

becasue they NEED items

c)

Non regulation of banks

d)

becasue they WANTED new items

18.

What is an economic depression?

a)

extreme recession that lasts two or more years

b)

mild recession that only affects the poor, and no one else

c)

opportunity for poor people to get jobs and save money

d)

value of all final goods and services produced in a year

19.

What are the characteristics of an economic depression?

a)

large business investments and low taxes

b)

too much money in circulation and high stock prices

c)

high unemployment and overproduction

d)

high unemployment and overproduction

20.

What is the Stock Market?

a)

people buy products which the merchants have a lot of stock

b)

where people bet on race horses to gain some money

c)

where people can bet on stock to gain shares of companies

d)

where people can buy stocks which are shares of companies

21.

What do we call the day the Stock Market crashed?

a)

Black Friday

b)

Black Tuesday

c)

Black Wednesday

d)

Black Monday

22.

What are unsound banks?

a)

banks failing due to overspending

b)

stable banks

c)

a decrease in tariffs

d)

a wave of violent strikes

23.

What was the problem with banks?

a)

low tariff rates

b)

non- regulated

c)

shortages of consumer goods

d)

creation of a national bank

24.

How did the Great Depression impact workers’ rights?

a)

anger against welfare programs

b)

support for the rights of workers

c)

criticism of labor unions

d)

sympathy for Communist protests

25.

Which geographic factor most influenced the westward migration of people from the southern Great Plains?

a)

rain and flodding

b)

wind and under farming

c)

over farming and drought

d)

over- production and urban sprawl

26.

What is overproduction and how did it affect the automobile industry?

a)

automobile production remained constant

b)

the automobile too expensive to purchase

c)

most of the automobiles in the world were produced in the United States

d)

Changes in economic conditions led to changes in automobile production

27.

What casued the Dust bowl?

a)

Wind and under farming

b)

Rain and wind

c)

Over farming and rain

d)

Drought and over farming

28.

How did Republican presidents like Herbert Hoover think would help the economy recover?

a)

the government should assume control of industry

b)

the economy would recover on its own

c)

an increase in defense spending would stimulate the economy

d)

unemployed workers should receive Federal benefits

29.

What were “Hoovervilles” and why were they called that?

a)

federal programs to provide jobs for the unemployed

b)

efforts to help the residents return to their farms

c)

refusal to provide direct federal aid to the homeless

d)

emergency relief program to provide food to the poor

30.

What was the goal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal?

a)

helping those living in poverty

b)

breaking up business monopolies

c)

eliminating nuclear weapons

d)

lowering barriers to immigration

31.

How did the New Deal change the relationship between the government and the people/economy?

a)

foreign policy is more important than domestic policy

b)

go't should become more involved in social and economic life

c)

Supreme Court should have an important role in the economy

d)

rights of workers are less important than businesses

32.

What did the National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) do?

a)

help labor unions

b)

help womens rights

c)

help african american rights

d)

help immigration reforms

33.

How did the government help victims of the Dust Bowl?

a)

give aid to produce rain

b)

give money to farmers NOT to produce crops

c)

give money to stop win storms

d)

give money for making more crops

34.

What did the Tennessee Valley Authority do?

a)

improve economic conditions in a poor rural region

b)

build and manage a turnpike in the valley

c)

encourage African Americans to settle in the valley

d)

provide health care benefits for southerners

35.

The main purpose of New Deal measures such as the SEC and the FDIC was to

a)

assure a guaranteed income for American families

b)

provide immediate employment opportunities

c)

limit irresponsible investing and safeguard savings

d)

assure a guaranteed income for American families