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Duplicate of 2015 Third Nine Weeks Review - Pocahontas Middle School
Duplicate of 2015 Third Nine Weeks Review - Pocahontas Middle School
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1
Why were some New Deal programs referred to as "safety net" programs?
They were intended to help the nation's neediest people
They were designed to capture secret communists
They were created to prevent illegal immigration
They were intended to rescue the nation's economy
2
Harlem was the center of what genre of music that became extremely popular during the 20s?
blues
ragtime
classical
jazz
3
What did the FDIC do for Roosevelt's New Deal?
to stop future international military conflicts
Federal government's promise to guarantee deposits in bank
To prevent Communism from spreading in America
To reduce the number of unemployed veterans
4
Who would be the painter of this distinctive painting?
Georgia O'Keeffe
Langston Hughes
Mary Shelley
Jacob Lawrence
5
What caused the population decrease across the Great Plains?
The more they produced, the less they made
Drought had left the farming lands unproductive and useless
all answers provided are reasons
Farmers lost their lands through debts
6
What group gained the right to vote from the Nineteenth Amendment?
African Americans
immigrants
women
young adults, age 18 and older
7
What one invention is solely responsible for the growth of suburbs?
Electricity
Automobiles
Swimming pools
Telephones
8
This painting is a part of a series. What is the series, and who painted it?
Black men wearing blue - Pablo Picasso
Slave Labor Series - W.E.B. DuBois
Working Men Series - Georgia O'Keeffe
Great Migration Series - Jacob Lawrence
9
Which was NOT a New Deal Program?
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
United Auto Workers (UAW)
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
10
What was the main goal of the Social Security Act?
to reduce the unemployment rate
to help elderly people in need
to help war veterans find jobs
to fight crime in urban areas
11
Who would come to power in Germany around the same time Franklin Roosevelt was being elected?
Winston Churchill
Adolf Hitler
Joseph Stalin
Herbert Hoover
12
When did farmers in the United States begin to struggle?
at the end of World War I
When the stock market fell
after the great fires of the Plains
When California stole the best workers
13
Roosevelt signed into law many relief measures (New Deal). The goal of these measures was to:
help the unemployed
promote racial equality
improve working conditions in factories
reduce government influence
14
What do electric vacuum cleaners and washing machines have in common?
Both were used by Progressives
Both were made possible by Thomas Edison
Both were new labor saving devices
Both were items that sold for under $50 in 1925
15
What caused the Great Depression?
deep debts of American farmers
All answers are reasons
Stock market crash of 1929
Risky lending by banks
16
Because of the New Deal many Americans began to accept the idea that the federal government had
a responsibility to care for citizens in need
a responsibility to bulid dams and bridges
a responsibility to build schools
a responsibility to end racial discrimination
17
Women who bobbed their hair, rode in cars, smoked cigarettes and had a lot of fun were:
floozies
flappers
boppers
hiphoppers
18
How did Henry Ford make it possible to build cars more efficiently?
low paying jobs
slave labor
assembly line
labor unions
19
What does it mean to "buy on margin"?
buying stock in a new or unproven company
buying a limited amount of stock in any one company
buying stock in a company with borrowed money
buying too much stock in any one company
20
What are Aaron Copland and George Gershwin known for?
Artists
Authors
Jazz Musicians
Composers
21
What was the date of "Black Tuesday"?
January 1st, 1933
April 23rd, 1928
September 11th, 1931
October 29th, 1929
22
The Prohibition movement led to the ban of what goods in the United States?
Foreign imports
Soft Drinks
Tobacco products
Alcoholic beverages
23
What do the 18th and the 21st Amendments have in common?
Women's right to vote
Alcohol
Freedom of Speech
Taxes
24
What name was given to the area of ruined Great Plains farmlands?
Central Desert
Hoovervilles
Great Flood
Dust Bowl
25
Why did many African Americans move north during the Great Migration?
because of labor shortages in the industrial Northern cities
because of high tax rates in the South
because of reduced racial conflict in the South
the low farming output in rural areas across the nation
26
For many Americans the Roaring Twenties was a time of
unemployment
abolition
bank closures
rising living standards
27
Traditionalists and modernists were arguing over what subject in the Scopes Trial?
Evolution
Unemployment
Role of Government
Banking
28
What were Hoovervilles?
Vacuum cleaners
Towns created by Dr. Seuss
Shantytowns built by homeless during the Great Depression
Quaint lovely villages for tourists
29
What happened on Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929?
Hundreds of banks closed their doors after running out of mo
The Ku Klux Klan marched on the streets of the nation's capi
Prohibition began and the nation went completely dry
The stock market crashed in a great wave of selling
30
African American culture was reborn in this neighborhood of New York in the 1920s:
Manhattan
Queens
Harlem
Brooklyn
