1st Semester Final Review U.S. History Part 1

The 18th Amendment...

This person came to power in Germany during the early 1930s

The Great Depression lasted until...

Immigrant and anarchist executed for a 1920 murder though believed to be innocent

The Scopes Trial was about

The stock market crash of 1929 led directly to...

This type of music was typical of Harlem during the 1920s

In the 1920s for the first time in American history more people lived in...

Who said, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself?"

The Grapes of Wrath was about

Name given to the collection of programs set forth by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Which group faced particularly hard times during most of the 1920s?

What is a flapper?

The ultimate symbol of Jazz Age culture was a young woman who...

Following World war I, cultural changes in America spread from...

Group of WWI vets who marched on Washington D.C. seeking government relief during the Depression

paying for an expensive item over many months

Where was the "Dust Bowl" located?

actual purchasing power is defined as...

One result of Prohibition during the 1920s was

Why did some states ban the teaching of evolution in the schools?

Author of The Grapes of Wrath

Which of the following art forms came to define the decade of the 1920s?

This person was an Evangelist who set up soup kitchens in Harlem

This person was put on trial during the "monkey" Trial.

This person was the President of the United States at the beginning of the Depression (1929)

Jazz was brought to northern cities by

Cut their hair short, smoke, drank, danced, and in general pushed the limits of society in the 1920s

The ideas of this sprang from the Harlem Renaissance

This program was set up to provide for old age American citizens

The term "Hooverville" was used to describe....

This person was the celebrated defense attorney in the "monkey Trial

Author of The Great Gatsby and other works during the 1920s

Which of the following helped cause the Great Depression

Known as "The Kingfish" this Louisiana politician was called, "the most dangerous man in America" by FDR

Famous Jazz Musician of the 1920s

FDR won the 1932 presidential election after promising...

The name given to the massive drought and dust storms that swept through farm land during the Depression

The 21st Amendment repealed

Pay a fraction of a stocks price and borrow the rest

This person was the single most famous athlete of the 20's and 30's

A main goal of the New Deal was to...

Which of the following is one way women's roles in society changed during the 1920s?

Ran for President in the late 1800s This person was the prosecutor during the "Monkey Trial"

During the 1920s many Americans became uncomfortable with rapidly changing...

The post World War I economy entered a period of adjustment because

To those who idolized him, what did Charles A. Lindbergh symbolize?

The collapse of the American economic system...

What was the primary goal of the Ku Klux Klan?

Poet; His work The Wasteland described the struggle of youth in the 1920s

This person set up a Communist form of Government in the Soviet Union

Elected in 1932 this American President promised a "New Deal" to a nation stuck in the Great Depression

Which of the following was a result of Prohibition?

In the 1920s many African-Americans moved to northern cities to escape....

President from 1924-28 who stated, "The chief business of the American people is business"

Fear of Communism and other revolutionary ideas

In the fall of 1929 a wave of panic selling gripped the stock market as a result of...

The Harlem Renaissance was

This person was the first to successfully complete a non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean

Which of the following correctly describes the results of Prohibition?

Places where alcohol was served illegally during the Prohibition period

Speakeasies allowed people to

Hoover's refusal to provide direct federal relief caused...

The collective art, writing, and music of African Americans in the black section of N.Y. city was collectively called...

American automotive pioneer who made car ownership a reality for many ordinary Americans

In the late 1920s most Americans felt that the economy would...

taking a chance in the stock market

Hard times of the farms of the Great Plains caused many farm families to

Henry Ford made automobiles more affordable by

Socialists and progressives attacked FDR's New Deal the most for...

FDR's regular public radio addresses to the nation were known as...

How did radio contribute to the development of a common culture in the 1920s

Economist who advocated massive government spending to help a collapsing economy

This person was a famous musician during the 1920s

Employers' practice of offering workers benefits