What was the New Deal?

The programs set up to end the Great Depression

Which statement explains why the Eighteenth Amendment was eventually reversed?

Police spent much time trying to find illegal alcohol

What was the impact made by figures such as Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston?

Promoted pride and togetherness among African Americans

Which of these events contributed to the stock market crash?

Too many people paid for stocks on credit, leaving the economy weak.

Which statement describes the life of immigrant workers?

They moved with the seasons and faced anti-immigrant feelings.

What is the purpose of imposing a tariff?

to protect American producers from cheaper goods from overseas

What conclusion can be drawn about how the Great Depression progressed?

Widespread panic made a bad situation worse.

What is Social Security?

Insurance for disabled and retired people

What economic obstacle faced American farmers in the 1920s?

New technology allowed more products to be produced than were needed.

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1
What was the New Deal?
The programs set up to end the Great Depression
The treaty that ended of WWI
The stock market crash that ended the Roaring 20s
A plan for the President to take over and raise taxes for American citizens
2
Which 2 helped to create a popular culture shared by Americans in the 1920s?
Internet & Movies
Radio & Movies
Newspaper & Radio
Movies & Newspaper
3
The creative time in the 1920s when artists explored the experiences of African Americans was known as what?
Great Migration
Great Depression
African American new age
Harlem Renaissance
4
What resulted from the mass consumption of new products in the 1920s?
People had more time for hobbies
Caused women to go to work
Recession began
Economy grew stronger
5
Which statement explains why the Eighteenth Amendment was eventually reversed?
Police spent much time trying to find illegal alcohol
It limited the number of immigrants who could move into the U.S. each year.
Before this, most senators were elected by state legislatures.
Several changes had been made to the United States Constitution.
6
What was the impact made by figures such as Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston?
Explored survivors guilt after WWI
Music that brought people together
Speeches that called out the wild behavior of the times.
Promoted pride and togetherness among African Americans
7
Someone who buys or uses goods and services
Stocks
Tariff
Consumer
Unemployment
8
a tax on imports
unemployment
mass consumption
tariff
stocks
9
Which President introduced the New Deal?
Woodrow Wilson
Herbert Hoover
Abraham Lincoln
Franklin D. Roosevelt
10
Which of these events contributed to the stock market crash?
When stock prices fell, people rushed to sell their stocks.
Unemployment made it difficult for anyone to buy stock.
Too many people paid for stocks on credit, leaving the economy weak.
Stock prices rose quickly and no one could afford to buy them.
11
Which statement describes the life of immigrant workers?
Took part in the Great Migration and experienced discrimination
They were seen as a threat because they had different beliefs.
They moved with the seasons and faced anti-immigrant feelings.
They owned their own farms and faced prejudice from Americans.
12
What is the purpose of imposing a tariff?
to ensure American consumers bought American goods and services
to maintain competition between American and foreign companies
to prevent American companies from exporting goods
to protect American producers from cheaper goods from overseas
13
the condition of being out of work
Consumer
Unemployment
Stock Market
Mass Consumption
14
a financial share of ownership of a company
Mass Consumption
Tariffs
Stock
Unemployment
15
the large-scale demand for goods
Tariffs
Mass Consumption
Consumer
Stocks
16
What conclusion can be drawn about how the Great Depression progressed?
It would not have occurred if people had not used credit.
Widespread panic made a bad situation worse.
The lack of necessary goods made it worse.
Confidence in the economy brought it to an end.
17
What is Social Security?
The 17th amendment
Insurance for disabled and retired people
Limits on immigration
Jazz clubs called a Speak Easy.
18
Central location where people buy and sell stocks in companies
Consumer
Stock Market
tariff
Mass Consumption
19
Which of these is the main reason that many farmers left their land and headed west in the 1930s?
Increased herds of cattle overgrazed
Dust Bowl.
New farming technology
Farmers' crops were failing
20
What economic obstacle faced American farmers in the 1920s?
Wages and hours were cut for workers because they were not needed.
Long droughts that killed crops and reduced raw materials in the West
New technology allowed more products to be produced than were needed.
High demand for products so prices for everyday items went up.

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