WorksheetsChapter 9 "Roaring 20s and Somber 30s"
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 12mins
1. Which three were major features of the New Deal?
Social Security
increased rights for labor
environmental improvement programs
monetary relief to close farms
2. Artists Aaron Copland and George Gershwin wrote
songs that were uniquely American music
poetry about industrialization
rhythm and blues songs
novels about immigration
3. Which amendment to the Constitution of the United States repealed Prohibition?
18th
19th
20th
21th
4. Which artist of the 1920s and 1930s created this painting of the Southwest?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Georgia O'Keefe
Langston Hughes
John Steinback
5. 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
6. What would most likely be the title of this list?
Cultural Climate of the 1920s
The Great Migration
Impact of the Great Depression
Prohibition in America
7. Which three headlines would have been seen describing the New Deal?
Farmers get aid from the government
Labors gain more rights
Congress blocks environmental proposals
New jobs on Blue Ridge Parkway
8. Which group of people made and smuggled alcohol illegally?
migrant workers
W.P.A. workers
immigrants
bootleggers
9. What artist chronicled the experiences of the Great Migration through paintings?
Langston Hughes
Bessie Smith
Georgia O'Keefe
Jacob Lawrence
10. What was one reason African Americans moved to cities in the North and Midwest?
A Lack of discrimination
Discovery of gold and silver
Better employment opportunities
Superior farmland
11. 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.
12. What were three causes of the Great Depression?
Prohibition
Over-speculating on stocks
Debt due to buying using installment plans
High tariffs
13. Which man would most likely have written the book Poems of Africa and America?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Langston Hughes
John Steinbeck
George Gershwin
14. Which man would most likely have written the book about migrant workers in the 1930s?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Langston Hughes
John Steinbeck
George Gershwin
15. Which man would most likely have written the book about the Jazz Age of the 1920s?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Langston Hughes
John Steinbeck
George Gershwin
16. In a story about Prohibition, a character walks into a club where he could drink alcoholic beverages. Where was he?
in a speakeasy
in the Northern city
in "Hooverville"
in Harlem
17. What did the 18th Amendment impose?
Great Depression
Prohibition
Great Migration
Harlem Renaissance
18. Which three artists are associated with the Harlem Renaissance?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Langston Hughes
Bessie Smith
Georgia O'Keefe
Duke Ellington
19. A radio station is playing a song with a blues singer. Which artist would likely be featured on this station?
Aaron Copland
Duke Ellington
Bessie Smith
Louis Armstrong
20. What was the result of the Federal Reserve’s poor monetary policies?
Bankers had too much money saved.
The banking system collapsed.
High tariffs were imposed on all international products.
Americans had little debt due to buying on installment plans.
21. 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
22. Which event best completes the timeline above?
Harlem Renaissance
New Deal
Prohibition
World War I
