Worksheets7th 20's to the Great depression.
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 2hrs 40mins
What was the Great Depression?
A period of economic success and an improving economy
The worst economic catastrophe in U.S. history
A period of time that witnessed American involvement in violent foreign wars
A hotly contested presidential election
What forced banks to close during the Great Depression?
Huge amounts of inflation
War in Europe
Investors unable to pay loans and bank runs
Not enough people invested in the Stock Market
Why did the stock market collapse in 1929?
Only wealthy Americans invested in the stock market
Investors inflated prices, and then sold shares very cheap, losing money
Investors refused to invest in the stock market
Investors bought shares cheap, and then sold stocks at a high price
What was Roosevelt's New Deal?
A series of government-funded bail outs
A series of federally funded public works programs
A hands-off approach to business and the economy
A series of voluntary business recovery acts
During the Roaring Twenties, the US had just got out of __________, and business was booming.
World War I
World War II
The Great Recession
The Great Depression
In the 1920s, many Americans invested money in the ______ market.
black
credit
share
stock
What happened on Black Tuesday in October 1929?
Factories shut down and cut millions of positions.
Americans paid back the money that they had borrowed to buy stocks.
Companies sold millions of shares, and the stock market crashed.
Americans sold millions of shares, and the stock market crashed.
This was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater and politics spanning the 1920s and 1930s.
teapot dome
scandal
great
migration
Harlem
renaissance
Harlem
Rejuvenation
This is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime.
Rock and Roll
hip-Hop
Jazz
Swing
This was the term used to refer to a decade that experienced a period of economic prosperity in American history, as well as notable social, artistic and cultural dynamism.
Good times
decade
Flapper
prosperity
Roaring
Twenties
Roaring
Thirties
This is a manufacturing process in which parts interchangeable parts are added as the semi-finished assembly moves from workstation to workstation where the parts are added in sequence until the final assembly is produced.
ford
line
assembly
line
Roosevelt
line
Edison
Line
What new invention became popular because of electricity becoming more available?
Model T
Washing Machine
Assembly Line
Telescope
A time for African Americans to express their feelings through music, art, and literature was the ____.
The Victorian Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance
The Renaissance
The Great Migration
Independent women during the 1920's who wore shorter skirts, bob haircuts, and danced freely were called ____.
Moonshiners
Flappers
Jazz
Pilots
Henry Ford created the ______, which allowed more cars to be produced.
Ford Company
Model T
First car
Assembly Line
The movement of African Americans from the rural south to the industrialized cities to seek economic opportunities is called the -
Great Migration
Harlem Renaissance
Civil Right Movement
Gold Rush
Henry Ford’s contribution to the industrialization of the United States included both –
The assembly line and a “middle-class” wage for his workers.
Electric-powered vehicles and the interstate highway system.
The first monopoly and new process for making steel.
The world’s first automobile and the technology for paved roads.
The rise of speakeasies was a result of
the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment.
the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment.
the popularity of talking pictures.
the popularity of labor unions.
The Prohibition Era ended with
the passage of the Lindbergh Law.
the implementation of New Deal programs.
the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment.
the Supreme Court's ruling in Nebbia v. New York.
