WorksheetsThe Roaring 20's and Great Depression
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 3mins
October 29th, 1929 is as Black Tuesday. What important happened on this day?
FDR was elected President
The Stock Market Crashed
The end of WWI
The day Sacco and Vansetti were executed
Al Capone was a famous _____ 1920's?
Jazz Musician
Movie Star
Mafia Boss
Radio Personality
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) addressed which of the following?
Minimum wage and Overtime pay
Who a company may hire
Union Membership
On the job injuries
Trial that debated Creationism vs. Evolution?
Sacco-Vanzetti Trail
Brown vs. The Board of Education
The Scopes Monkey Trial
Nuremberg Trials
The 1st Red Scare was a period of the fear of the spread of communism that led to this....
Sacco-Vanzetti Trail
Brown vs. The Board of Education
The Scopes Monkey Trial
Nuremberg Trials
Shanty towns created by homeless people during the Great Depression that were named after a U.S. president?
Cartervilles
Wilsonvilles
Hoovervilles
Franklinvilles
"Fireside chats" were radio broadcasts by which U.S. president?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Teddy Roosevelt
Lyndon B. Johnson
All of the following are causes of the Great Depression, EXCEPT:
The Dust Bowl
Bank Failures
The Stock Market Crash
The beginning of WWII
Organization created to watch over the stock market?
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
The Federal Reserve System
Social Security Act (SSA)
Which Amendment prohibited the sale and distribution of alcohol?
The 21st
The 16th
The 19th
The 18th
What is the name of the group of WWI veterans who demanded early payment of benefits they had been promised by Congress?
The Bonus Army
The Veterans Rights Organization
The WWI Veterans Coalition
The Flappers
What is the name of the movement by 1 in 7 southern African-Americans from the south to the north in search of better opportunities, between 1915 and 1930?
The Great Job Hunt
The Great Migration
The Great Shift
The Great Relocation
Who were the KKK?
Labor union organizers
A 1920's mafia organization
The Krazy Kit Kat makers
Organization of racial and ethnic intolerance and violence
All of the following describe the Civilian Conservation Corps, EXCEPT?
Taught young men to read and write
Constructed trails at state parks
Gave jobs to artists and musicians
Planted 3 billion trees
Prohibition caused a great serge in all of the following, EXCEPT:
Bootlegging
Speakeasies
Communism
Organized Crime
Which Amendment to the Constitution ended Prohibition?
The 18th
The 19th
The 20th
The 21st
Which one gave pension benefits to the elderly.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Social Security Act
Civilian Conservation Corps
Fair Labor Standards Act
