1920s/1930s Test Review

Question 1

an artistic movement celebrating African American culture, experiences, and identity.

Accepted Answer

The Harlem Renaissance

Question 2

how did the growth of the automobile industry after World War I change the United States economy?

Accepted Answer

It stimulated the development of other industries

Question 3

the promotion of widespread fear of the potential rise of of communism or anarchism

Accepted Answer

The Red Scare

Question 4

Which event of the 1920s did not reflect the racial and ethnic intolerance of the decade?

Accepted Answer

The Harlem Renaissance

Question 5

measures designed to fix the problems that caused the Depression

Accepted Answer

Reform

Question 6

How did Herbert Hoover originally approach the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

He believed private groups should help the people, not the gov.

Question 7

shanty towns that sprang up in many major cities as many people lost their homes due to the Depression.

Accepted Answer

Hoovervilles

Question 8

Choose a cause of the Great Migration

Accepted Answer

Better paying jobs opened up in Northern cities

Question 9

programs designed to create jobs and lower unemployment. These jobs created things that were already needed

Accepted Answer

Public Works Programs

Question 10

measures designed to build the US economy back stronger

Accepted Answer

Recovery

Question 11

How did the New Deal change the role of the Federal Gov?

Accepted Answer

it increased the power of the federal government

Question 12

African Americans moved from the south to the north to find jobs and escape southern persecution

Accepted Answer

The Great Migration

Question 13

Women of the 1920’s who challenged the traditional idea of how women were to dress and behave

Accepted Answer

Flappers

Question 14

Why did the 1920s see an increase in the standard of living

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 15

Franklin Roosevelt's economic reform program designed to solve the problems of the Great Depression

Accepted Answer

The New Deal

Question 16

These groups were targeted by the KKK...

Accepted Answer

African Americans, Catholics, Jews, and Immigrants.

Question 17

What caused an increase in personal debt in the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

buying items on credit

Question 18

Choose an event that caused the Great Depression

Accepted Answer

Increased speculation of the stock market

Question 19

What is one way installment plans impacted the US economy in the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

They incresed consumerism. People bought more than they could afford.

Question 20

purchasing a stock for only a fraction of its price and borrowing the rest

Accepted Answer

Buying on Margin

Question 21

October 29th, 1929 - the day of the stock market crash began the Great Depression.

Accepted Answer

Black Tuesday

Question 22

insured bank deposits so that people would not lose their savings in the event of a bank failure

Accepted Answer

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Question 23

Why were farmers and factory workers hit so hard by the Depression?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 24

Anti-immigrant attitude - the belief that those born in the US were superior to immigrants

Accepted Answer

Nativism

Question 25

What was an effect of Prohibition?

Accepted Answer

Increased lawlessness and organized crime

Question 26

provided workers with unemployment insurance, old age pensions, and insurance if they died early.

Accepted Answer

Social Security Act

Question 27

This natural disaster of the 1930s forced farmers to leave their homes and move out west to search for jobs.

Accepted Answer

The Dust Bowl

Question 28

How did immigration laws change in the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

Quotas were set to limit immigration from many countries

Question 29

The New Deal changed American political thinking because it was based on the principle that the…

Accepted Answer

Federal government should attempt to solve social and economic problems

Question 30

short-term measures designed to give people immediate aid

Accepted Answer

Relief

Question 31

What is one cause of the increase of nativism in the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

Increased immigration from southern and eastern Europe

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