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20s, Great Depression and New Deal
20s, Great Depression and New Deal
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1
What amendment repealed prohibition?
18th amendment
21st amendment
22nd amendment
15th amendment
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What is the name of the government backed retirement plan called?
Social Security Act
Medicaid bill
Reform bill
recovery bill
3
Who was president at the start of the Great Depression?
Wilson
Roosevelt
Truman
Hoover
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What affected the Great Plains region?
Dust Bowl
tornado
stock market crash
5
What was created to regulate the stock market?
Securities and Exchange Commission
National Recovery Administration
Federal Trade Commission
Social Security Administration
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Where was the Harlem Renaissance?
Detroit
New York
Chicago
Georgia
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What was Roosevelt's goal to increase the justices called?
Justice for all
Supreme Court increase
New Deal
Court-packing
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Who advocated taxing the rich in his "Share the Wealth" program?
Father Coughlin
Huey P. Long
Hoover
Francis Townsend
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What is a bootlegger?
Consumer of Alcohol
Transporter of illegal liquor
Gunman
Shoe shiner
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What was Roosevelt's programs called provide relief, recovery, and reform?
New Deal
Great Society
New England
New Freedom
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Which amendment passed prohibition?
22nd amendment
2nd amendment
5th amendment
18th amendment
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What did the prohibition cause?
Organized crime, bootlegging, overflowed prisons
A rise in drug overdoses
Homelessness, starvation, not enough government help
Riots combating the unfair treatment of the government
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What did governors declare to prevent bank runs?
reduce value of the dollar
bank stands
bank holidays
create Federal Reserve
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What was the purpose of the Works Progress Admnistration (WPA)?
help farmers
insure bank
control stock market
build roads/buildings
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What year did the stock market crash?
1930
1928
1929
1918
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Roosevelt's court-packing plan would give the ______ branch of gov't too much power.
legislative
judicial
executive
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What gave unions the right to collective bargaining?
Knights of Labor
Hoovervilles
Wagner Act
deficit spending
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What happened to the unemployment rate during the Great Depression?
stayed the same
decreased sharply
increased sharply
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What did the art, literature, and music depict during the Great Depression?
sports
prosperity
hard times
minorities
20
What was the Supreme Court's reaction the National Industrial Recovery Act?
unconstitutional
They supported
They approved
They disagreed
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What did the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation do?
provide work
insure bank deposits
regulate stocks
help the poor
22
Who had the idea of rugged individualism?
Roosevelt
citizens
Hoover
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Which New Deal program brought electricity to rural America?
CCC
AAA
WPA
TVA
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Why did WWI veterans march to Congress...
to get bonus early
to relieve workers
to protest for women
to get a job
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What Was a Speakeasy
A TV show
alcoholics
A old person
People who hid in nightclubs to drink illegally
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What was Prohibition?
The prohibiting of a communist regime
When I was prohibited from the school dance :(((
The prohibition of Germans
The banning of alcohol in the United States
27
The Scopes trial illustrated a divide between
french and americans
modernism and fundamentalism.
blacks and whites
Men and women
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The stock market affected the _____ population; while the Dust Bowl affected ____ population.
rural; urban
urban; rural
city; city
29
Bank failures, accounts wiped out, stock market crash...all describe
Great Depression
WWI
New Deal
Progressivism
30
John Scopes won the Scopes Trial
False
True
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The Scopes Trial was about...
The teaching of evolution as a theory in schools
Rights of students in school
Rights of teachers in school
Sex education in schools
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Put these in order: New Deal (1), Great Depression (2), WWI (3), Roaring 20s (4)
3, 4, 1, 2
3, 4, 2, 1
2, 3, 1, 4
3, 1, 4, 2
33
The Harlem Renaissance was partially caused by
The Scopes Monkey Trial
Prohibition
The Kellog-Briand Pact
The Great Migration
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How did New Deal legislation impact the role of state and federal government?
did nothing
limited federal govt
extended federal govt
35
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
A march across the US.
A factory for African Americans
A railroad system
African American culture flourished across the US.
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What was the purpose of "Fireside chats?"
encourage citizens to report communism
provide instructions for enemy
restore confidence during economic trouble
inform citizens on progress of war