5.2 Assessment

Question 1

What is one of the cultural and economic impacts of the Stock Market Crash of 1929?

Accepted Answer

People were forced to live in Hoovervilles.

Question 2

Which of the following resulted from New Deal programs? Select one that applies.

Accepted Answer

Bank deposits and customers’ money were now protected., People were able to receive unemployment and disability insurance., Workers were hired to build roads, dams, and parks., Millions of customers in some Southern states received electrical power.

Question 3

Whose perspective: “We just want to make money. If children and immigrants want work, then we will work them."

Accepted Answer

Big Business

Question 4

Why did African Americans migrate North from South Carolina? Select one that applies.

Accepted Answer

To have the opportunity to work in factories, To escape Jim Crow Laws, To escape the limitations of sharecropping

Question 5

Which New Deal program was created to give benefits to older, retired workers?

Accepted Answer

Social Security

Question 6

Civilian Conservation Corps, Work Progress Administration, and the Tennessee Valley Authority are associated with what?

Accepted Answer

the New Deal

Question 7

Why did Roosevelt feel the need to increase federal power during the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

Roosevelt believed that the federal government needed to pass New Deal

Question 8

How did the Progressive Era change the role of the federal government?

Accepted Answer

The federal government took on a larger role and passed many laws to

Question 9

What did the new laws and amendments have in common?

Accepted Answer

They protected the rights of citizens.

Question 10

Whose perspective: “Remaining neutral is our best course of action. That war over in Europe should not concern us.”

Accepted Answer

United States

Question 11

According to Wilson’s speech, what was America’s early stance on getting involved in WWI?

Accepted Answer

officially stay out of World War I

Question 12

What was the lasting impact of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s?

Accepted Answer

Music, literature, and theater began to reflect African American culture.

Question 13

Which statement about the “Harlem Renaissance” is true?

Accepted Answer

Langston Hughes, Louis Armstrong,&other African Americans shared their art

Question 14

How did life change in the U.S. and South Carolina after the Stock Market Crash of 1929?

Accepted Answer

Millions of people became unemployed, and many lived in shantytowns.

Question 15

Which of the following did not take place in South Carolina during the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

Farming in SC boomed as farmers’ crops were needed to feed war-torn Europe

Question 16

Why didn’t the United States Congress support Wilson’s League of Nations? Select one choice.

Accepted Answer

Congress feared getting involved in European political problems., Congress would lose power in declaring war.

Question 17

Why was the “New Deal” such a new concept for the United States government?

Accepted Answer

The Federal government became very active in the national economy.

Question 18

Which of the following factors led to the eventual U.S. involvement in WWI? Select one that applies.

Accepted Answer

the sinking of the Lusitania, aid to our European allies, the Zimmerman Telegram

Question 19

Whose Perspective: Bobbing our hair and dancing the Charleston!! Also, the 19th Amendment was passed letting us vote.

Accepted Answer

Women

Question 20

Which of the following best describes a factor that led to the crash of the stock market?

Accepted Answer

Factories were overproducing and began to lay off workers.

Question 21

What statement best summarizes the “Roaring Twenties” in the United States?

Accepted Answer

Many Americans enjoyed an economic boost and a new interest in leisure

Question 22

How did the ideals of European countries lead to the conflict of WWI?

Accepted Answer

Europeans had a strong sense of nationalism which made them feel superior

Question 23

Whose perspective: “I cannot believe what I saw in the factories today! An 8-year-old child working!"

Accepted Answer

Progressive Reformers

Question 24

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was a New Deal program that was created during the Great Depression.

Accepted Answer

banking

5.2 Assessment

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5.2 Assessment

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