Duplicate of U.S. History Decades Test

Question 1

Who was sworn in as President following Warren G. Harding?

Accepted Answer

Calvin Coolidge

Question 2

Match the term or phrase with the correct decade: Flappers

Accepted Answer

1920s

Question 3

Stock Market Crash

Accepted Answer

1920s

Question 4

The GI Bill of Rights encouraged veterans to:

Accepted Answer

go back to college

Question 5

MTV began broadcasting music videos:

Accepted Answer

1980s

Question 6

During the early 1920s, the stock market

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rose steadily throughout the decade

Question 7

This group tends to believe in less government regulation and that taxes and social programs should be used sparingly:

Accepted Answer

Conservatives

Question 8

Babe Ruth was the biggest sports star in this decade:

Accepted Answer

1920s

Question 9

Challenger Disaster

Accepted Answer

1980s

Question 10

Which of the following contributed to the growth of a mass national culture during the 1950s?

Accepted Answer

Television

Question 11

The Opec Embargo was a result of

Accepted Answer

The U.S. support of Israel

Question 12

Which of these people is associated with the idea of mass production?

Accepted Answer

Henry Ford

Question 13

This man was the first to complete a transatlantic flight.

Accepted Answer

Charles Lindberg

Question 14

Rap Music

Accepted Answer

1980s

Question 15

The Reagan administration was accused of illegally selling arms to which country?

Accepted Answer

Iran

Question 16

This man produced cheap houses throughout the 1950s that people could afford on a middle class salary:

Accepted Answer

William Levitt

Question 17

Jazz Music

Accepted Answer

1920s

Question 18

Martin Luther King Jr. leads the Alabama bus boycott:

Accepted Answer

1950s

Question 19

Baby Boom

Accepted Answer

1950s

Question 20

In what decade did people start to create computers for home use?

Accepted Answer

1980s

Question 21

What was a name for those who illegally sold alcohol during Prohibition?

Accepted Answer

bootleggers

Question 22

The gas crisis preceded this decade

Accepted Answer

1980s

Question 23

Fundamentalism and modernism clashed over the theory of evolution in the 1920s because of:

Accepted Answer

The scopes trial of 1925

Question 24

How did new technology in the 1950s affect manufacturing and farming?

Accepted Answer

More jobs became automated, so less workers were needed

Question 25

Many artists and writers in the 1950s:

Accepted Answer

felt alienated from mainstream society.

Question 26

This Russian leader begins to focus on change through Glasnost and Perestroika.

Accepted Answer

Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 27

This group tends to favor government intervention and that taxes should be used to create more social programs.

Accepted Answer

Liberals

Question 28

The Beatnik movement questioned the norms of society:

Accepted Answer

1950s

Question 29

Fall of the Berlin Wall

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1980s

Question 30

The integration of School and the Little Rock Nine:

Accepted Answer

1950s

Question 31

The program put in place under Reagan to try and develop technology to possibly shoot down enemy missiles:

Accepted Answer

SDI or Star Wars

Question 32

President Eisenhower

Accepted Answer

1950s

Question 33

This scandal happened under the Harding Administration when Albert Fall allowed private oilmen access to Navy oil:

Accepted Answer

The Teapot Dome Scandal

Question 34

All three decades witnessed social changes that impacted society. Pick one major change from each decade and explain.

Accepted Answer

Discuss

Question 35

A near nuclear disaster that caused the U.S. to back away from nuclear production:

Accepted Answer

Three Mile Island

Question 36

Rock N' Roll

Accepted Answer

1950s

Question 37

What decade did the Television take over?

Accepted Answer

1950s

Question 38

This disease became one of the biggest fears during the 1980’s:

Accepted Answer

Aids

Question 39

The economy could not grow enough to keep up with all the jobs needed and inflation occurred as unemployment increased

Accepted Answer

Stagflation

Question 40

What decade was the radio the dominant form of communication?

Accepted Answer

1920s

Question 41

The largest public works project in American history resulting in over 41,000 miles of new highways.

Accepted Answer

Interstate Highway Act

Question 42

Prohibition

Accepted Answer

1920s

Question 43

As American suburbs grew in the 1920s,

Accepted Answer

the inner cities began to deteriorate as people moved

Question 44

This war ended in 1953:

Accepted Answer

Korean War

Question 45

What was the significance of Ford's Model T?

Accepted Answer

It was the first car that ordinary people could afford

Question 46

The theory that if taxes are cut, that money would be reinvested in hiring more workers to help the economy

Accepted Answer

Trickle-down Economics

Question 47

In what ways were these decades very similar? How were they different?

Accepted Answer

Discuss briefly

Duplicate of U.S. History Decades Test

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Duplicate of U.S. History Decades Test

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