5th grade S.S Milestone Review - Roaring 20s & The Great Depression

Question 1

Fast/loud music from W African spirituals, flapper dress, and dancing

Accepted Answer

Jazz Age

Question 2

Olympic athlete competed in Germany (under Hitler's rule)?

Accepted Answer

Jesse Owens

Question 3

What helped employ people to build public buildings and facilities?

Accepted Answer

Works Progress Administration

Question 4

NY Yankees baseball player, hit 60th homerun in 1927

Accepted Answer

Babe Ruth

Question 5

Big Band Leader in the Jazz age

Accepted Answer

Duke Ellington

Question 6

First African American athlete to win four gold medals in one Olympics; track and field.

Accepted Answer

Jesse Owens

Question 7

Who was the author of "Gone with the Wind" and won a Pulitzer Prize, from Atlanta, GA?

Accepted Answer

Margaret Mitchell

Question 8

African American poet, during Harlem Renaissance

Accepted Answer

Langston Hughes

Question 9

Took place in Harlem, NY; interest in art, poetry, and writing

Accepted Answer

Harlem Renaissance

Question 10

Who was elected President after Hoover?

Accepted Answer

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Question 11

What was the system of mass production called?

Accepted Answer

assembly line

Question 12

Who took the first flight in a plane in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina?

Accepted Answer

Wright brothers

Question 13

Farmers plowed land during drought, combined with wind, it created dust storms ruining crops.

Accepted Answer

Dust Bowl

Question 14

What did FDR do to help end the Depression?

Accepted Answer

the "New Deal"

Question 15

What helped to provide electrical power to the Tennessee Valley region and build dams?

Accepted Answer

Tennessee Valley Authority

Question 16

Who created the first automobile AND the system of mass production?

Accepted Answer

Henry Ford

Question 17

What created CCC, WPA, and TVA to generate jobs and build roads, dams, and plant trees?

Accepted Answer

New Deal

Question 18

Who took a flight starting in NY and landing in Paris, France?

Accepted Answer

Charles Lindbergh

Question 19

What helped employ young men to conserve natural resources?

Accepted Answer

Civilian Conservation Corps

Question 20

The time period of money and entertainment; people made & spent money; went out to enjoy life.

Accepted Answer

Roaring 20s

Question 21

These were created as a charity to feed the poor and homeless and give supplies.

Accepted Answer

Soup Kitchen

Question 22

When people spent money they didn't have but promised to pay later, it was...

Accepted Answer

credit or installment buying

Question 23

Famous jazz musician from New Orleans, trumpet player; African American

Accepted Answer

Louis Armstrong

Question 24

What did Hoover do about the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

Encouraged people to "wait it out"

Question 25

The first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in his plane "The Spirit of St. Louis"?

Accepted Answer

Charles Lindbergh

Question 26

Who was the President blamed for the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

Herbert Hoover

Question 27

The 1930's brought about economic hardship that led to the downturn of the economy.

Accepted Answer

Great Depression

Question 28

Which are events leading to the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

All of these answers

5th grade S.S Milestone Review - Roaring 20s & The Great Depression

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5th grade S.S Milestone Review - Roaring 20s & The Great Depression

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