USH7: Twenties and Thirties Test Preparation

What is the term for buying stocks with borrowed money?

In what way did the Harlem Renaissance push the boundaries and break the old rules?

Largest of all New Deal Agencies, it built schools, hospitals, bridges, roads, and airports. It even employed artists

Three of the following were done by some communities to survive the Depression. Which was not?

What was the immediate cause of the Great Depression?

The New Deal agency created to prevent people from losing their homes was the Home Owners Loan Corporation.

Jane Addams was America's first female cabinet member.

By 1929, Americans didn't have enough money to buy all the things businesses made. What is this called?

The most common measure of the stock market based on 30 large companies.

By the end of the 1920s most American families had a car.

The Great Depression only occured in the United States.

The Ku Klux Klan disappeared by 1920.

This Chicago gangster was the best-known bootlegger in the country

Which of the following was a relief program?

Which of the following was a reform program?

The Public Works Administration was a reform program.

Which New Deal Agency was designed to make sure corporations didn't cheat people buying their stocks?

People actually starved to death during the Great Depression.

Which of the following is true of FDR's handling of African Americans.

Depression-era shanty towns that grew up in cities all around the country were called Hobo Towns

What was wrong with FDR's idea to add justices to the Supreme Court?

The railroad industry was struggling in the 1920s.

World War I veterans who wanted early payment of money the government had promised them.

In the 1920s many Americans bought things with borrowed money.

Which of the following was a complaint that liberals like Huey Long made against the New Deal.

The practice of the government spending more money than it takes in as taxes is called deficit spending.

By 1929, the richest 1% of Americans owned more than half the nation's wealth.

He was our quietest and most pro-business president.

The presidents of the 1920s wanted all of the following except

NRA codes required businesses to pay women the same amount men earned.

The United States nevere approved the treaty of Versailles.

During the New Deal, the national government became more involved in people's lives.

Which of the following was becoming widely used in the 1920s?

Three of the following were common things people ate during the Depression. Which was not commonly eaten?

A fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in education.

In the 1920s the US goverenment tried to become more actively involved with world politics.

Conservatives worried that the New Deal was created a government that had too much control of people's lives.

Which of the following was not one of the three R's of the New Deal?

Most businesses were doing well in the 1920s?

Which of the following was not one of the presidents of the 1920s?

Three of the following things were true about Prohibition. Which is not true?

What was the purpose of recovery programs?

People who couldn't afford to pay their house loan often took in boarders to make some money.

A new style of music that was characterized by improvisation.

As an immigrant from Jamaica he promoted the idea of Black pride.