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The 1920s & Great Depression American Republic Study Guide

Total questions: 80

Worksheet time: 1hrs 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


invented an early form of the radio

a)

Guglielmo Marconi

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Warren G. Harding

d)

Charles Evans Hughes

e)

Edward M. House

2.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


used the assembly line to turn out a new car every twenty-seven seconds

a)

Guglielmo Marconi

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Warren G. Harding

d)

Charles Evans Hughes

e)

Edward M. House

3.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


president who vowed a “return to normalcy”

a)

Guglielmo Marconi

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Warren G. Harding

d)

Charles Evans Hughes

e)

Edward M. House

4.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


helped broker the Washington Naval Conference

a)

Guglielmo Marconi

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Warren G. Harding

d)

Charles Evans Hughes

e)

Edward M. House

5.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


virtually ran the White House along with Wilson’s wife after Wilson’s stroke

a)

Guglielmo Marconi

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Warren G. Harding

d)

Charles Evans Hughes

e)

Edward M. House

6.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


an Italian anarchist

a)

Nicola Sacco

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Warren G. Harding

d)

Charles Evans Hughes

e)

Edward M. House

7.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


a place to buy liquor illegally

a)

speakeasy

b)

isolationism

c)

flapper

d)

bootlegging

e)

prohibition

8.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


America’s basic foreign policy in the 1920s

a)

speakeasy

b)

isolationism

c)

flapper

d)

bootlegging

e)

prohibition

9.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


woman whose behavior and dress were shocking

a)

speakeasy

b)

isolationism

c)

flapper

d)

bootlegging

e)

prohibition

10.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


the illegal sale of liquor

a)

speakeasy

b)

isolationism

c)

flapper

d)

bootlegging

e)

prohibition

11.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


condition imposed by the Eighteenth Amendment

a)

speakeasy

b)

isolationism

c)

flapper

d)

bootlegging

e)

prohibition

12.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


Teapot Dome scandal

a)

Albert B. Fall

b)

Al Capone

c)

W. E. B. Du Bois

d)

Sigmund Freud

e)

Herbert Hoover

13.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


leader of a large crime ring in Chicago

a)

Albert B. Fall

b)

Al Capone

c)

W. E. B. Du Bois

d)

Sigmund Freud

e)

Herbert Hoover

14.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


co-founder of the NAACP

a)

Albert B. Fall

b)

Al Capone

c)

W. E. B. Du Bois

d)

Sigmund Freud

e)

Herbert Hoover

15.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


popular psychologist of this era

a)

Albert B. Fall

b)

Al Capone

c)

W. E. B. Du Bois

d)

Sigmund Freud

e)

Herbert Hoover

16.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


defeated Al Smith in the election of 1928

a)

Albert B. Fall

b)

Al Capone

c)

W. E. B. Du Bois

d)

Sigmund Freud

e)

Herbert Hoover

17.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


legal victor of the Scopes trial

a)

William Jennings Bryan

b)

J. Gresham Machen

c)

Marcus Garvey

d)

Sigmund Freud

e)

Herbert Hoover

18.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


Fundamentalism’s most respected scholar in the early twentieth century

a)

William Jennings Bryan

b)

J. Gresham Machen

c)

Marcus Garvey

d)

Sigmund Freud

e)

Herbert Hoover

19.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


promoted black emigration to Africa

a)

William Jennings Bryan

b)

J. Gresham Machen

c)

Marcus Garvey

d)

Sigmund Freud

e)

Herbert Hoover

20.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


set production quotas for businesses

a)

National Recovery Administration

b)

Tennessee Valley Authority

c)

Civilian Conservation Corps

d)

Social Security

e)

Wagner Act

21.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


built a series of dams providing electricity

a)

National Recovery Administration

b)

Tennessee Valley Authority

c)

Civilian Conservation Corps

d)

Social Security

e)

Wagner Act

22.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


the most popular New Deal program

a)

National Recovery Administration

b)

Tennessee Valley Authority

c)

Civilian Conservation Corps

d)

Social Security

e)

Wagner Act

23.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


government-sponsored insurance program

a)

National Recovery Administration

b)

Tennessee Valley Authority

c)

Civilian Conservation Corps

d)

Social Security

e)

Wagner Act

24.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


encouraged the growth of labor unions

a)

Works Progress Administration

b)

Social Security

c)

Agricultural Adjustment Act

d)

Emergency Banking Act

e)

Wagner Act

25.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


for work relief, but often used for direct relief

a)

Works Progress Administration

b)

Social Security

c)

Agricultural Adjustment Act

d)

Emergency Banking Act

e)

Wagner Act

26.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


purchasing stock on credit

a)

buying on margin

b)

recession

c)

“Black Thursday”

d)

dole

e)

National Recovery Administration

27.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


a business slump

a)

buying on margin

b)

recession

c)

“Black Thursday”

d)

dole

e)

National Recovery Administration

28.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


an episode of the stock-market crash

a)

buying on margin

b)

recession

c)

“Black Thursday”

d)

dole

e)

National Recovery Administration

29.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


a direct handout

a)

buying on margin

b)

recession

c)

“Black Thursday”

d)

dole

e)

National Recovery Administration

30.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


had a Blue Eagle “seal of approval” for businesses

a)

buying on margin

b)

recession

c)

“Black Thursday”

d)

dole

e)

National Recovery Administration

31.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


an effort to stabilize banking

a)

bank holiday

b)

court-packing plan

c)

Tennessee Valley Authority

d)

“Dust Bowl”

e)

Civilian Conservation Corps

32.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


an attempt to overcome judicial opposition to the New Deal

a)

bank holiday

b)

court-packing plan

c)

Tennessee Valley Authority

d)

“Dust Bowl”

e)

Civilian Conservation Corps

33.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


built dams to control flooding, prevent erosion, and provide recreational areas

a)

bank holiday

b)

court-packing plan

c)

Tennessee Valley Authority

d)

“Dust Bowl”

e)

Civilian Conservation Corps

34.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


area on the Plains that suffered severe weathering and soil erosion

a)

bank holiday

b)

court-packing plan

c)

Tennessee Valley Authority

d)

“Dust Bowl”

e)

Civilian Conservation Corps

35.

Match each of the following with the correct answer choice.


“The Soil Soldiers”

a)

bank holiday

b)

court-packing plan

c)

Tennessee Valley Authority

d)

“Dust Bowl”

e)

Civilian Conservation Corps

36.

Who won the presidential election of 1920?

(a)  

37.

The common use of what power source did much to revolutionize the daily life of Americans during the 1920s?

(a)  

38.

What electric communication device offered information and entertainment to millions of Americans in their own homes during the 1920s?

(a)  

39.

What term means the making and selling of illegal liquor?

(a)  

40.

What particular event of the 1920s was an example of the growing scorn for Christians and scriptural truths such as creation?

(a)  

41.

Who succeeded to the presidency upon the death of President Harding?

(a)  

42.

Who became president after Calvin Coolidge?

(a)  

43.

What was the name of the agency for world revolution that tried to export communism anywhere by any method?

(a)  

44.

What is the name for the group of people who believe in the “fundamentals” of the Christian faith?

(a)  

45.

In what year did the stock market crash?

(a)  

46.

What name was mockingly given to the shanty towns that appeared outside cities during the Depression?

(a)  

47.

What area of the Plains was named after the conditions caused by a severe drought that plagued it in the 1930s?

(a)  

48.

What was the major government corporation established during the Hoover administration to lend money to various businesses?

(a)  

49.

Who was the Democratic candidate for president in 1932?

(a)  

50.

What was the name given to Roosevelt’s policies that promised to relieve the Depression?

(a)  

51.

What did people call the group of college professors who advised Roosevelt?

(a)  

52.

What did Roosevelt call his radio talks to the nation?

(a)  

53.

What New Deal legislation sought to raise farm prices by cutting production but was later struck down by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional?

(a)  

54.

What New Deal program created a large-scale effort for flood control, electricity production, and recreational development in the eastern United States?

(a)  

55.

What term denotes a slump in business that is considered less serious than a full depression?

(a)  

56.

A major court case related to the Red Scare was the one involving

a)

Albert B. Fall.

b)

Guglielmo Marconi.

c)

Sacco and Vanzetti.

d)

John Scopes.

57.

In the 1920s, which one of the following items probably did the most to break down some of the regional characteristics of Americans and form a more unified culture across the nation?

a)

electric light

b)

phonograph

c)

radio

d)

telephone

58.

Who was President Harding’s secretary of state?

a)

Albert B. Fall

b)

Herbert Hoover

c)

Charles Evans Hughes

d)

Nicola Sacco

59.

The author of the book The Man Nobody Knows was . . .

a)

Albert B. Fall.

b)

Bruce Barton.

c)

Calvin Coolidge.

d)

Warren G. Harding.

60.

Which one of the following is not necessarily associated with the intentions or results of the Eighteenth Amendment?

a)

bootlegging

b)

flappers

c)

prohibition

d)

speakeasies

61.

The people of the 1920s generally had an interest in all the following topics or issues except . . .

a)

sensational stories of human drama.

b)

biblical Christianity and moral values.

c)

silent movies and their stars.

d)

sports and sports figures.

62.

Who received the brunt of much ridicule at the Scopes trial for his defense of biblical creation?

a)

William Jennings Bryan

b)

Calvin Coolidge

c)

Albert B. Fall

d)

Charles Evans Hughes

63.

Who promised a “return to normalcy” after the war?

a)

Calvin Coolidge

b)

Warren G. Harding

c)

Herbert Hoover

d)

Woodrow Wilson

64.

All of the following conditions were present in the mid-1920s except . . .

a)

excessive purchases on credit.

b)

climbing prices on the stock market.

c)

a lack of adequate food production on farms.

d)

a great desire for law and order.

65.

All of the following conditions of the 1920s contributed to the nation’s economic fall except . . .

a)

excessive land speculation.

b)

high prices for agricultural and industrial goods.

c)

unwise investment in corporate stock.

d)

extensive use of credit for purchases.

66.

Which was true of international finance in the 1920s?

a)

America owed Europe billions of dollars in war debts.

b)

International trade was brisk and profitable because of low tariffs.

c)

America was lending large sums of money to Germany.

d)

The Allied countries of Europe were making reparations payments to Germany.

67.

All of the following conditions proved harmful to farmers during the Great Depression except . . .

a)

extensive droughts.

b)

rural free delivery.

c)

low prices for farm products.

d)

heavy burdens of debt.

68.

The Great Depression brought about all of the following except . . .

a)

a major religious revival.

b)

widespread unemployment.

c)

bank failures.

d)

widespread defaulting on loans.

69.

President Herbert Hoover . . .

a)

met the demands of the “Bonus Army.”

b)

was insensitive to how the Depression was affecting Americans.

c)

encouraged Americans to be optimistic.

d)

was responsible for the problems of the Depression.

70.

President Hoover believed in . . .

a)

local responsibility for giving aid to the needy.

b)

giving federal money directly to the needy.

c)

the introduction of socialism.

d)

having government regulation of big business.

71.

President Hoover was generally criticized for . . .

a)

establishing the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

b)

setting up government work projects to employ the jobless.

c)

building the Hoover Dam.

d)

not taking dramatic steps to bring immediate relief.

72.

The policies Franklin Roosevelt promised would solve the economic problems of the nation were called the . . .

a)

Brain Trust.

b)

New Deal.

c)

New Frontier.

d)

Wagner Act.

73.

The winner of the presidential election of 1932 was . . .

a)

William Foster.

b)

Herbert Hoover.

c)

Franklin Roosevelt.

d)

Norman Thomas.

74.

Which program was intended to eliminate “wasteful competition” in business and was declared to be unconstitutional?

a)

Agricultural Adjustment Act

b)

Civilian Conservation Corps

c)

National Recovery Administration

d)

Tennessee Valley Authority

75.

When Franklin Roosevelt became president, he quickly did all of the following except . . .

a)

stir up the hostility of the press.

b)

declare a bank holiday.

c)

call Congress into a special session.

d)

begin giving “fireside chats.”

76.

All of the following were parts of the New Deal except the . . .

a)

Tennessee Valley Authority.

b)

Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

c)

Civilian Conservation Corps.

d)

National Recovery Administration.

77.

The New Deal programs brought about all of the following for the nation except . . .

a)

a heavy debt for the government.

b)

increased power for the federal government.

c)

beneficial public works.

d)

recovery for the economy.

78.

Because of the loyalties gained during the New Deal era, the Democratic Party could expect to win many votes from all of the following groups except . . .

a)

blacks.

b)

business executives.

c)

union workers.

d)

poor people.

79.

During his first term in office, Roosevelt received a large measure of support for his programs from . . .

a)

Congress.

b)

conservatives.

c)

leftists or socialists.

d)

the Supreme Court.

80.

An early technique Roosevelt used to communicate with the people of the nation was his . . .

a)

“brain trust.”

b)

“fireside chats.”

c)

industry holiday.

d)

National Media Relations Administration.