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USH - Unit 11 - Roaring 20’s and Great Depression

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who wrote the attached poem?

a)

John Steinbeck

b)

Earnest Hemingway

c)

Langston Hughes

d)

Louis Armstrong

2.

What organization was created to encourage diplomacy and discourage future conflicts?

a)

NAACP

b)

Negro Improvement Association

c)

League of Nations

d)

Warsaw Pact

3.

What was the purpose of the New Deal programs?

a)

Relief, recovery, reform

b)

Relief, production, business

c)

Reform, control, efficiency

4.

Which New Deal program built millions of miles of roads and highways?

a)

WPA

b)

TVA

c)

FERA

d)

CCC

5.

Why did people name the shanty towns “Hooverville’s”?

a)

Herbert Hoover was being honored for his work to end the depression

b)

FDR named them such

c)

Hoover was blamed for the depression and people’s condition of unemployment

d)

FDR lost the election to Hoover

6.

Which of the following occurred out of fear of the spread of communism?

a)

Russian Revolution

b)

Bolshevik Revolution

c)

Red Scare

d)

Palmer Raids

7.

Which of the following arose due to the 18th Amendment?

a)

Womens suffrage

b)

Speakeasies

c)

Organized crime

d)

Bootleggers

8.

Due to the increased farming and drought, what occurred in the Midwest?

a)

Black Tuesday

b)

Black Friday

c)

Dust Bowl

d)

Great Plains

9.

Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Great Depression?

a)

Underconsumption

b)

Overproduction

c)

Speculation of the stock market

d)

Unemployment

10.

What was created to ensure specific groups were taken care of, the unemployed were helped, and the disabled had assistance?

a)

Social Security Act of 1935

b)

New Deal

c)

Wagner Act

d)

Stock Market