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5.4.1 through 5.4.7 Roaring 20's and Great Depression
5.4.1 through 5.4.7 Roaring 20's and Great Depression
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Fifth Grade Social Studies
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1
A method of production, invented by Henry Ford, that revolutionized automobile production?
Flow production
Mass production
Large batch production
Assembly line
2
A person who smuggled illegal alcohol into the US from Canada, Cuba or the West Indies?
Bootlegger
Treasury Agent
Gangster
FBI Agent
3
Who was the woman that represent power for women?
A symbol of strength in women -Rosie the Riviter
Bessie Smith
19th Amendment
Female John Cena
4
Arrangement in which consumers agreed to buy now and pay later for a purchase?
PayPal
Buying on Credit
Debit
Credit Cards
5
What was the Eighteenth Amendment?
Prohibition
Free Speech
Women's Suffrage
Abolished Slavery
6
A program set up to help provide security for the elderly
AAA
CCC
BET
SSA
7
What was the Great Migration?
Bird migration
Movement of African Americans from the North to the South
Movement of African Americans from the South to the North
Movement of African Americans back to Africa
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Why was the mass availability of the radio significant to the American people?
It allowed you to listen to live sporting events
It brought the world to America's living room
It created a shared experience for Americans
All of the above
9
Investors paid a small percentage of a stock's price as a down payment and borrowed the rest?
SP500
Buying on Margin
NSADAQ
Capital Gain
10
What facts show that buy stocks on Speculation was a bad idea?
Prices of stocks increased
Companies and share holders made money
Ignoring the risks helped expedite the stock market crash
11
What invention, bought by nearly every homeowner, made life easier in the 1920's?
Refrigerator
Microwave
iPhone
Car
12
The first true American form of music, a fusion of European, African, and American sound?
Heavy Metal
Hip Hop
Country
Jazz
13
What invention brought sports, entertainment, and advertising to every American household?
Newspaper
Radio
Twitter
TV
14
Who was the Harlem Renaissance's most well-known poet?
Claude McKay
W.E.B DuBois
Louis Armstrong
Langston Hughes
15
How did life for the average women change during the 1920's?
All of the above
Women had the right to vote
Women began to break the double standards
Women were working and making their own money
16
Overcrowded urban street inhabited by very poor people during the Industrial Revolution.
Slums
Favelas
Soweto
Hoovervilles
17
How did WW2 pull the US out of the Great Depression?
It didn't -dramatic music-
Factories needed more workers to produce war supplies
All the protesters were killed by the Army
Immigration during WW2 led to more workers in the factories
18
Why did the US even join WW2 in the first place?
The bombing of Pearl Harbor
All the above
Hitler's Suicide
Election of the 45th president
19
Who was the famous 1920's painter who painted the American Southwest?
Salvador Dali
Pablo Picasso
Georgia O'Keeffe
El Greco
20
Who said "We in America are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before" in 1928
Alfred Smith
FDR
Herbert Hoover
Woodrow Wilson
21
Why were athletes, such as Jim Braddock and Babe Ruth, so popular during the 1920's?
The Yankee's won the world series
They both played for the Pirates
Radio brought them into American's homes
Television made them popular
22
Name the movement of the American population from rural areas to cities?
Ruralization
Urban sprawl
Urbanization
Gentrification
23
Illegal drinking establishment (bars) during the depression?
Tavern
Bar
Rum Runner
Speakeasy
24
A program which young men were put to use planting trees
SSA
TVC
WPA
CCC
25
Period from 1929-1941 in which the economy was in severe decline and millions out of work?
Baby Boomers
Reaganomics
Great Depression
Inflation
26
Why did many African American families flee the poor, rural South for the more urban North?
For more equal opportunities
All of the above
There was more work available in the North
To escape the Jim Crow South
27
A shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s.
US Marines
Bonus Army
Hoovervilles
Bread Lines
28
The area of New York City that was the center of the Jazz world?
Bronx
Harlem
Queens
Brooklyn
29
What was the outcome of the mass increase in buying on credit in America?
All of the above
Default on payments to banks
False spending power
Banks defaulting
30
What inference can you make about Prohibition and Organized Crime?
The mob ended Prohibition
Organized crime flourished during Prohibition
Prohibition ended Organized Crime
31
What inference can you make about the life of a 1920's housewife?
They relied on their husbands for support
They took on the role of men at work
They were treated poorly
Inventions simplified their lives
32
What is the significance of October 29th, 1929?
Stock market crash
World War I ends
Pirates win the world series
World War II begins
33
Why did the Soviet Union join the Allied powers
Japan and Italy didn't let them join the allied powers
The Soviet Union didn't like Hitler. (I can see why)
Japan and Italy didn't let them join the axis powers
Hitler didn't follow the treaty and invaded the Soviet Union
34
What caused speakeasies to be so popular during the Depression?
World War II
Boredom
Despair due to economic conditions
Entertainment
35
Why were 'flappers' so different from the women of the early 1900's?
They brought there conservative vaules to the American women
They were not different at all
They wore short skirts, drank, smoked, and dated casually
They did not work, unlike women during WWI
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program used to stabilize banks and insured part of depositor's money
AAA
SSA
CCC
FDIC
37
What were some ways the Federal Government tried to provide relief to suffering families?
Direct relief
Soup kitchens
Bread lines
All of the above
38
Drought, high wind, and lack of crop rotation led to this natural disaster through the US?
Great Chicago Fire
Dust Bowl
Hurricane Katrina
Tornado
39
Millions of people from what religion were killed by the Germans
Jews
Europeans
Christians
Muslims
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Cash payments & food supplied by gov't and local charities that provided relief during the GD?
Cash assistance
Direct Relief
Government Cheese
WIC