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___________: Cause ------- Urbanization: Effect
Traditional Values and Behavior
Fear of Crime
Rise of the Auto
Decline of American Industry
2
Black Tuesday referred to the
a bad dust storm that hit the plains in 1934
collapse of the stock market
the day the Federal Reserve made it harder for investors to get loans
3
____ is the term that describes the devastation of the Great Plains by drought.
The Dust Bowl
The Great Depression
Black Thursday
Black Tuesday
4
The young woman in this photo is posing with toy monkeys. What news story of 1925 was she probably involved in?
the return of the Spirit of St. Louis
the repeal of Prohibition
the Valentine’s Day Massacre
the Scopes trial
5
The most controversial of Darwin’s ideas is known as
Stability
Values
fundamentalism
Evolution
6
Beliefs based on a literal interpretation of the Bible are called
Evolution
Urbanization
Fundamentalism
Values
7
During the 1920s, the largest industry in Detroit, Michigan was
newspaper publishing.
automobile manufacturing.
liquor smuggling.
liquor consumption.
8
The Scopes trial pitted religious beliefs against
the theology preached by Billy Sunday.
the healing techniques used by Aimee Semple McPherson.
academic freedom and science.
fundamentalism and creationism.
9
The unofficial capital of African American culture and activism in the United States in the 1920s was
Chicago
Harlem
St. Louis
Detroit
10
How did many of the unemployed feel about receiving handouts during the Great Depression?
ashamed and angry
hopeful
happy and relieved
11
The ____ gave full voting rights to women.
speakeasies
Nineteenth Amendment
Eighteenth Amendment
NAACP
12
Soldiers returning from World War I brought what disease back to the United States, causing an epidemic in 1918?
tuberculosis
Depression
`smallpox
Influenza
13
A wholly original form of American music, jazz
depended on every note being plotted in advance.
relied on classical melodic structures adapted from European composers.
blended several different musical forms from the Deep South.
was defined by clear rules.
14
13. In the Great Migration, African Americans moved from
the Deep South to the West.
the South to the North.
high employment areas to depressed regions.
urban centers to farmland.
15
People who hopped on trains to look for work were known as
Bum/Hobos
Hoovervilles
Okies
16
What is one way in which radio helped to create a large common culture in America?
Mass production of radios created a market for the vacuum tube.
The radio moved from being a novelty to becoming a luxury.
Radio broke down barriers that separated country people from city dwellers.
Good programming could be taken for granted across the country.
17
______ were a segment of society who were more likely to adopt the dress and manner exhibited by “flappers.”
Femenists
African Americans
Grandmothers
Rebellious Girls
18
Why was buying on margin riskier than other ways of investing in the stock market?
Margin calls forced investors to buy more stock.
because they were buying stock with money they did not have yet
If the stock price dropped, the investor might make only a small profit.
19
Sacco and Vanzetti were on trial not only for robbery and murder, but also for their
refusal to follow the Sedition act
political beliefs and ethnicity.
refusal to board the Buford.
resistance to the leadership of John L. Lewis.
20
Ratification of the 19th Amendment created .....
passage of the Volstead Act
increased jobs when troops returned from World War I
more opportunities for women
ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment
21
Prohibition led to
World War I
fundamentalism
the Great Migration.
a rise in organized crime
22
President Hoover downplayed the effects of the crash because
consumers continued to buy stock at a high rate
margin buyers were not hurt
he believed in rugged individualism and thought there would be a recovery
23
the image below depicts the migration of displaced farmers called
Vagrants
Okies
Hobos
24
Spin-off industries that resulted from the production of millions of cars included an increased demand for
glass and steel
Rubber and Trolleys
Aviation
25
The success of business in the 1920s led to the growth of
Welfare Capitalism
Nativism
Deportation
26
Americans knew they were in a Hooverville when they saw
Dams
Banks
vacuum cleaners
Shacks
27
Speakeasies allowed citizens to get around the consequences of
laws protecting free speech.
Prohibition.
the Nineteenth Amendment.
illegal gaming.
