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Chapter 9 "Roaring 20s and Somber 30s"

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

1. Which three were major features of the New Deal?

a)

Social Security

b)

increased rights for labor

c)

environmental improvement programs

d)

monetary relief to close farms

2.

2. Artists Aaron Copland and George Gershwin wrote

a)

songs that were uniquely American music

b)

poetry about industrialization

c)

rhythm and blues songs

d)

novels about immigration

3.

3. Which amendment to the Constitution of the United States repealed Prohibition?

a)

18th

b)

19th

c)

20th

d)

21th

4.

4. Which artist of the 1920s and 1930s created this painting of the Southwest?

a)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

b)

Georgia O'Keefe

c)

Langston Hughes

d)

John Steinback

5.

5. The New Deal was—

a)

Roosevelt’s government program to help the nation recover from the Depression

b)

imposed by the constitutional amendment (18th Amendment) to make it illegal to manufacture, transport, and sell alcoholic beverages

c)

the monetary policy followed by the Federal Reserve to help the nation recover from the Great Depression

d)

Hoover’s government program to help the nation recover from the Depression

6.

6. What would most likely be the title of this list?

a)

Cultural Climate of the 1920s

b)

The Great Migration

c)

Impact of the Great Depression

d)

Prohibition in America

7.

7. Which three headlines would have been seen describing the New Deal?

a)

Farmers get aid from the government

b)

Labors gain more rights

c)

Congress blocks environmental proposals

d)

New jobs on Blue Ridge Parkway

8.

8. Which group of people made and smuggled alcohol illegally?

a)

migrant workers

b)

W.P.A. workers

c)

immigrants

d)

bootleggers

9.

9. What artist chronicled the experiences of the Great Migration through paintings?

a)

Langston Hughes

b)

Bessie Smith

c)

Georgia O'Keefe

d)

Jacob Lawrence

10.

10. What was one reason African Americans moved to cities in the North and Midwest?

a)

A Lack of discrimination

b)

Discovery of gold and silver

c)

Better employment opportunities

d)

Superior farmland

11.

11. What would best complete the graphic organizer above?

a)

Southerners promoted organized crime against African Americans.

b)

African American culture spread beyond Harlem to the rest of society.

c)

African Americans migrated to cities in the north and west.

d)

Most African Americans remained in the Southeast region.

12.

12. What were three causes of the Great Depression?

a)

Prohibition

b)

Over-speculating on stocks

c)

Debt due to buying using installment plans

d)

High tariffs

13.

13. Which man would most likely have written the book Poems of Africa and America?

a)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

b)

Langston Hughes

c)

John Steinbeck

d)

George Gershwin

14.

14. Which man would most likely have written the book about migrant workers in the 1930s?

a)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

b)

Langston Hughes

c)

John Steinbeck

d)

George Gershwin

15.

15. Which man would most likely have written the book about the Jazz Age of the 1920s?

a)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

b)

Langston Hughes

c)

John Steinbeck

d)

George Gershwin

16.

16. In a story about Prohibition, a character walks into a club where he could drink alcoholic beverages. Where was he?

a)

in a speakeasy

b)

in the Northern city

c)

in "Hooverville"

d)

in Harlem

17.

17. What did the 18th Amendment impose?

a)

Great Depression

b)

Prohibition

c)

Great Migration

d)

Harlem Renaissance

18.

18. Which three artists are associated with the Harlem Renaissance?

a)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

b)

Langston Hughes

c)

Bessie Smith

d)

Georgia O'Keefe

e)

Duke Ellington

19.

19. A radio station is playing a song with a blues singer. Which artist would likely be featured on this station?

a)

Aaron Copland

b)

Duke Ellington

c)

Bessie Smith

d)

Louis Armstrong

20.

20. What was the result of the Federal Reserve’s poor monetary policies?

a)

Bankers had too much money saved.

b)

The banking system collapsed.

c)

High tariffs were imposed on all international products.

d)

Americans had little debt due to buying on installment plans.

21.

21. What did the Harlem Renaissance expose to the rest of America?

a)

Uniquely American music

b)

The effects of the Great Depression

c)

The freshness and variety of African American culture

d)

Southern discrimination towards African Americans

22.

22. Which event best completes the timeline above?

a)

Harlem Renaissance

b)

New Deal

c)

Prohibition

d)

World War I