WorksheetsUSII.6abcd Review
Total questions: 29
Worksheet time: 15mins
Which picture shows an invention by the Wright Brothers?
What would be the best caption for this picture?
Communications improvements bring friends together.
Americans rush to new jobs thanks to electric lighting.
Social changes in America lead to reforms in gender equality.
Labor-saving products save women hours each day.
During the early 20th century, people gained greater mobility which led to-
an increase in jobs
railroad expansion
movement to suburban areas
rural population increases
What were three results of improved transportation brought about by affordable automobiles?
An increase in moving from over crowded cities to new areas
Creation of jobs
Improved farm technology
A growth in oil and steel industries
A decrease in productivity
What were three ways communication changed American life in the early twentieth century?
Increased availability of telephones connected families who were far apart.
Time-saving devices created more jobs in transportation-related industries.
The radio allowed news and messages to be sent to rural areas instantly.
Motion pictures brought entertainment to millions, creating a new national culture.
What motivated Ford to use the assembly line?
He wanted to build a car that everyone could afford.
He wanted to use the moving assembly line, like Ransom Olds.
He wanted to build a specialty car for upper-class America.
He wanted to create a monopoly in the automobile industry.
Which of these increased workplace safety and extended work hours? (labor-saving devices OR electric lighting)
(a)
Which of these increased home safety and decreased chore time? (labor-saving devices or OR electric lighting)
(a)
Which artist of the 1920s and 1930s created this painting of the Southwest?
Jacob Lawrence
Langston Hughes
Georgia O'Keeffe
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Which three headlines would have been seen describing the New Deal.
The New Deal was-
Roosevelt's government program to help the nation recover from the Depression
Imposed by the constitutional amendment (18th Amendment) to make it illegal to manufacture, transport, and sell alcoholic beverages
The monetary policy followed by the Federal Reserve to help the nation recover from the Great Depression
Hoover's government program to help the nation recover from the Depression
Which three were major features of the New Deal?
Social Security
Increased rights for labor
Environmental improvement programs
Monetary relief to close farms
Artists Aaron Copland and George Gershwin wrote-
songs that were uniquely American music
poetry about industrialization
rhythm and blues songs
novels about immigration
What would most likely be the title of this list?
Culture Climate of the 1920s
The Great Migration
Impact of the Great Depression
Prohibition in America
What was one reason African Americans moved to cities in the North and Midwest?
Lack of discrimination
Discovery of gold and silver
Better employment opportunities
Superior farmland
What were three causes of the Great Depression?
Prohibition
Debt due to buying consumer goods using installment plans
Over-speculating on stocks
High tariffs
Which group of people made and smuggled alcohol illegally?
Migrant workers
W.P.A. workers
Immigrants
Bootleggers
In a story about Prohibition, a character walks into a club where he could drink alcoholic beverages. Where was he?
In a speakeasy
In a Northern city
In "Hooverville"
In Harlem
What artist chronicled the experiences of the Great Migration through paintings?
Langston Hughes
Bessie Smith
Georgia O'Keeffe
Jacob Lawrence
What would best complete the graphic organizer above?
Southerners promoted organized crime against African Americans.
African American culture spread beyond Harlem to the rest of society.
African Americans migrated to cities in the north and west.
Most African Americans remained in the Southeast region.
Which three artists are associated with the Harlem Renaissance?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Langston Hughes
Bessie Smith
Georgia O'Keeffe
Duke Ellington
What did the Harlem Renaissance expose to the rest of America?
Uniquely American music
The effects of the Great Depression
The freshness and variety of African American culture
Southern discrimination towards African Americans
What did the 18th Amendment impose?
Great Depression
Prohibition
Great Migration
Harlem Renaissance
Which Amendment repealed (removed) Prohibition?
18th
19th
20th
21st
A radio station is playing a song with a blues singer. Which artist would likely be featured on this station?
Bessie Smith
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
Aaron Copland
Which event completes the timeline?
Harlem Renaissance
New Deal
Prohibition
World War I
What was the result of the Federal Reserve's poor monetary policies?
Bankers had too much money saved.
The banking system collapsed as people tried to withdraw all of their funds and could not repay loans.
High tariffs were imposed on all international products.
Americans had little debt due to buying on installment plans.
Which Harlem Renaissance writer would have written a book like the one shown in the image?
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Countee Cullen
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Which 1930s author would have written stories about the plight of migrant workers during the Great Depression as seen in the image here?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Langston Hughes
John Steinbeck
Zora Neale Hurston
