Which is NOT a direct result of the growing popularity and availability of the automobile?

changes in the advertising industry.

What role did Eleanor Roosevelt play in the Roosevelt administration?

She was an important advisor on domestic policy.

______ was New Deal legislation that was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

The National Industrial Recovery Act

What really ended the Great Depression?

The massive amount of government spending for World War II.

Why were motion pictures and radio so popular during the Great Depression?

They were inexpensive and helped people escape reality.

The Harlem Renaissance refers to a

celebration of African-American culture in literature & art.

In the 1920s “double standard” refered to

stricter social & moral standards for women than men.

The Fordney-McCumber Tariff was meant to

raise taxes on goods entering the United States.

Within a few years, the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act led to

a dramatic drop in world trade.

The NAACP did all of the following EXCEPT

propose that African Americans move back to Africa.

The “Great Migration” of 1910–1920 refers to the movement of

African Americans from the South to northern cities.

Which was NOT a cause of the Great Depression?

A growing number of homeless people.

To expand its membership in the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan engaged in all of the following EXCEPT

encouraging white women to join the organization.

Fundamentalists believed that

the Bible should betaken literally.

What does buying a stock on margin mean?

Borrowing money to help pay for the stock.

Who made up the Bonus Army that marched on Washington?

World War I veterans and their families.

Which candidates ran for president in 1932?

Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt

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1
Which of the following was NOT an effect of the Great Depression?
Many families became homeless.
Many men became unemployed.
Many people started farming.
Many children had a poor diet.
2
Which is NOT a direct result of the growing popularity and availability of the automobile?
changes in American architecture.
urban sprawl.
changes in American landscape.
changes in the advertising industry.
3
The first practical peacetime use of airplanes was for
carrying passengers.
weather forecasting.
crop-dusting.
carrying mail.
4
What role did Eleanor Roosevelt play in the Roosevelt administration?
She was an important advisor on foreign policy.
She served as a cabinet member.
She was an important advisor on domestic policy.
She focused on being an excellent hostess.
5
What name was given to the men and boys who rode the rails as they searched for work?
Hoboes.
Speculators.
Bonus Marchers.
Okies.
6
Which of the following increased in the 1920s?
Domestic demand for U.S. farm products.
Farmers’ debts.
Prices for farm products.
Foreign demand for U.S. farm products.
7
______ was New Deal legislation that was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
The Emergency Banking Relief Act
The Wagner Act
The Social Security Act
The National Industrial Recovery Act
8
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer believed that he needed to protect the American people from
political radicals.
labor union members.
big business.
corruption and fraud.
9
What really ended the Great Depression?
The massive amount of government spending for World War II.
Unregulated capitalism.
Roosevelt’s New Deal programs.
Reducing the federal deficit.
10
By calling shantytowns “Hoovervilles,” people conveyed their
patriotism.
trust in Hoover.
grudging respect for Hoover.
disgust with Hoover.
11
Why were motion pictures and radio so popular during the Great Depression?
They presented the New Deal in a positive light.
They were new technologies.
They were much more entertaining than silent films.
They were inexpensive and helped people escape reality.
12
Charles Lindbergh was famous as a(n)
pilot.
composer.
inventor.
politician.
13
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were charged with, and convicted of
receiving bribes
robbery and murder
anarchy
treason
14
To protect their own interests, employers often accused striking workers of being
spies.
nativists.
Communists.
bigots.
15
Which of the following describes a government system forgiving payments or food to the poor?
Direct relief.
Price support.
Bonus Army.
Rugged individualism.
16
___ called for the abolition of private property in order to equally distribute wealth & power?
Nativism
Communism
Isolationism
The quota system
17
The Harlem Renaissance refers to a
population increase in Harlem in the 1920s.
struggle for civil rights led by the NAACP.
celebration of African-American culture in literature & art.
program to promote African-American owned businesses.
18
In the 1920s “double standard” refered to
stricter social & moral standards for women than men.
lower wages women earned compared to men.
the work that women did both in home & outside the home.
unfair treatment of women in the workplace.
19
The Fordney-McCumber Tariff was meant to
help Britain and France pay off their war debts.
raise taxes on goods leaving the United States.
help Germany pay off its war debts.
raise taxes on goods entering the United States.
20
F. Scott Fitzgerald described the 1920s as the
Prohibition Age.
Jazz Age.
Harlem Renaissance.
Roaring Twenties.
21
The __ fought for legislation to protect African-American rights under the leadership of ___.
UNIA, Claude McKay
NAACP, Marcus Garvey
NAACP, James Weldon Johnson
UNIA, Langston Hughes
22
The Teapot Dome scandal centered around
gold mines.
union members.
oil-rich lands.
high tariffs.
23
Within a few years, the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act led to
more demand for American manufactured goods.
a dramatic drop in world trade.
an unequal distribution of in come in the UnitedStates.
Hoover’s reelection as president.
24
The NAACP did all of the following EXCEPT
fight for legislation to protect African Americans.
propose that African Americans move back to Africa.
publish The Crisis.
work with anti-lynching organizations.
25
Which was most closely tied to the public’s negative reactions to organized labor in the 1920s?
Resentment of labor’s advances.
Fears of rising prices.
Fears of a depression.
Fears of communism.
26
Who helped organize the “Black Cabinet”?
Mary McLeod Bethune.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
Dorothea Lange.
Frances Perkins.
27
The “Great Migration” of 1910–1920 refers to the movement of
immigrants from Europe to America.
African Americans from the United States to Africa.
people from rural areas and towns to large cities.
African Americans from the South to northern cities.
28
Which was NOT a cause of the Great Depression?
A growing number of homeless people.
Tariffs on foreign goods.
The availability of easy credit.
A crisis in the farm sector.
29
To expand its membership in the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan engaged in all of the following EXCEPT
blaming national problems on immigrants
encouraging white women to join the organization.
playing on people’s fears of political radicals.
allowing members to profit from recruiting new members.
30
An example of the stress caused by the Great Depression was the rise in the number of
people who committed suicide.
men who stood in breadlines.
children who were malnourished.
women who worked outside the home.
31
John T. Scopes challenged a Tennessee law that forbade the teaching of
evolution.
creationism.
fundamentalism.
biology.
32
Fundamentalists believed that
evolution and creationism could coincide.
prohibition should be repealed.
the Bible should betaken literally.
drinking alcohol was acceptable.
33
What does buying a stock on margin mean?
Paying less than the market price of the stock.
Borrowing money to help pay for the stock.
Purchasing the stock outside the regular stock exchange.
Buying the stock for someone else.
34
Who made up the Bonus Army that marched on Washington?
World War I veterans and their families.
Unemployed industrial workers and their families.
Business and labor leaders who agreed to work together,
Farmers forced off their land by dust storms.
35
Which candidates ran for president in 1932?
Calvin Coolidge and Franklin D. Roosevelt
Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover and Alfred E. Smith
Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt

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