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2017 Third Nine Weeks Review - Pocahontas Middle School
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3rd Nine Weeks Review Test
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1
Because of the New Deal many Americans began to accept the idea that the federal government had
a responsibility to bulid dams and bridges
a responsibility to care for citizens in need
a responsibility to end racial discrimination
a responsibility to build schools
2
What was the date of "Black Tuesday"?
April 23rd, 1928
September 11th, 1931
January 1st, 1933
October 29th, 1929
3
For many Americans the Roaring Twenties was a time of
rising living standards
unemployment
abolition
bank closures
4
What did the FDIC do for Roosevelt's New Deal?
Federal government's promise to guarantee deposits in bank
To reduce the number of unemployed veterans
To prevent Communism from spreading in America
to stop future international military conflicts
5
What was the main goal of the Social Security Act?
to help elderly people in need
to help war veterans find jobs
to reduce the unemployment rate
to fight crime in urban areas
6
What caused the Great Depression?
All answers are reasons
deep debts of American farmers
Stock market crash of 1929
Risky lending by banks
7
What caused the population decrease across the Great Plains?
Drought had left the farming lands unproductive and useless
Farmers lost their lands through debts
The more they produced, the less they made
all answers provided are reasons
8
Who would be the painter of this distinctive painting?
Jacob Lawrence
Mary Shelley
Langston Hughes
Georgia O'Keeffe
9
What does it mean to "buy on margin"?
buying stock in a new or unproven company
buying stock in a company with borrowed money
buying too much stock in any one company
buying a limited amount of stock in any one company
10
Who would come to power in Germany around the same time Franklin Roosevelt was being elected?
Joseph Stalin
Winston Churchill
Herbert Hoover
Adolf Hitler
11
Roosevelt signed into law many relief measures (New Deal). The goal of these measures was to:
help the unemployed
promote racial equality
reduce government influence
improve working conditions in factories
12
What do the 18th and the 21st Amendments have in common?
Alcohol
Taxes
Women's right to vote
Freedom of Speech
13
What do electric vacuum cleaners and washing machines have in common?
Both were items that sold for under $50 in 1925
Both were made possible by Thomas Edison
Both were new labor saving devices
Both were used by Progressives
14
What one invention is solely responsible for the growth of suburbs?
Automobiles
Swimming pools
Telephones
Electricity
15
Harlem was the center of what genre of music that became extremely popular during the 20s?
classical
jazz
ragtime
blues
16
When did farmers in the United States begin to struggle?
When the stock market fell
after the great fires of the Plains
at the end of World War I
When California stole the best workers
17
Why did many African Americans move north during the Great Migration?
because of reduced racial conflict in the South
because of high tax rates in the South
the low farming output in rural areas across the nation
because of labor shortages in the industrial Northern cities
18
What happened on Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929?
The stock market crashed in a great wave of selling
Prohibition began and the nation went completely dry
Hundreds of banks closed their doors after running out of mo
The Ku Klux Klan marched on the streets of the nation's capi
19
This painting is a part of a series. What is the series, and who painted it?
Slave Labor Series - W.E.B. DuBois
Black men wearing blue - Pablo Picasso
Working Men Series - Georgia O'Keeffe
Great Migration Series - Jacob Lawrence
20
Why were some New Deal programs referred to as "safety net" programs?
They were designed to capture secret communists
They were created to prevent illegal immigration
They were intended to help the nation's neediest people
They were intended to rescue the nation's economy
21
What were Hoovervilles?
Shantytowns built by homeless during the Great Depression
Towns created by Dr. Seuss
Quaint lovely villages for tourists
Vacuum cleaners
22
African American culture was reborn in this neighborhood of New York in the 1920s:
Queens
Harlem
Brooklyn
Manhattan
23
Which was NOT a New Deal Program?
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
United Auto Workers (UAW)
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
24
What name was given to the area of ruined Great Plains farmlands?
Central Desert
Dust Bowl
Hoovervilles
Great Flood
25
What group gained the right to vote from the Nineteenth Amendment?
immigrants
women
African Americans
young adults, age 18 and older
26
The Prohibition movement led to the ban of what goods in the United States?
Soft Drinks
Tobacco products
Alcoholic beverages
Foreign imports
27
What are Aaron Copland and George Gershwin known for?
Authors
Jazz Musicians
Composers
Artists
28
How did Henry Ford make it possible to build cars more efficiently?
slave labor
labor unions
low paying jobs
assembly line
29
Women who bobbed their hair, rode in cars, smoked cigarettes and had a lot of fun were:
boppers
floozies
flappers
hiphoppers
30
Traditionalists and modernists were arguing over what subject in the Scopes Trial?
Unemployment
Evolution
Role of Government
Banking
