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1920's/1930's Challenge
1920's/1930's Challenge
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Review of vocabulary and concepts of the 1920's and 30's
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1
The Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925 ended in a victory for --------
Fundamentalists
Women's Suffrage
Prohibition
Ku Klux Klan
2
What was Hoover's response to the Great Depression?
Rising employment
"Rugged Individualism"
"Hoovervilles"
Direct Relief to the Needy
3
Membership sharply increase during the 20's due to anti-immigration feeling
Ku Klux Klan
Suffrage for women
Communism
Prohibition
4
Leisure time activity in the Roaring Twenties
Women's Suffrage
Watching TV
Listening to the Radio
Going to a nightclub
5
The Civilian Conservation Corps put young men to work
Building parks
Helping farmers pick crops
Building the Railroad
Planting trees
6
What purpose did movies and radio programs serve during the Depression?
communicate propaganda
visions of comfort and affluence
Visions of poverty
Escape grim realities of life
7
This is a policy that a nation stay out of involvement in world affairs.
Isolationism
Anarchist
Revolution
Communism
8
The Stock Market Crash of 1929 was caused by
Margin Buying
Speculation
Speakeasies
High Tariffs
9
The New Deal's agencies or programs still in place today
PWA/ NIRA
CCC/WPA
FDIC/Social SecurityAct
Securities and Exchange Commission
10
Critics of FDR's policies said he was
made government too large
a bully hungry for power
not doing enough to end economic inequality
a rugged individualist
11
Hoover was not reelecting in 1932 partly because----
treatment of the Bonus Army
Building Hoovervilles
Building Hoover Dam
He gave Federal welfare benefits
12
Fear of communists coming to America to overthrow our government.
Anarchists
Red Scare
The man in the Red Hat
Revolution
13
FDR is elected in 1932 and his first act as President was to declare---
A Bank Holiday- closing all banks
Built Hoover Dam
A State of Emergency
Passed the 21st Amendment
14
Alcohol was illegal to buy, sell, or manufacture.
18th Amendment
Prohibition
Intollerance
Revolution
15
The TVA Tennessee Valley Authority provided
Insurance for banks to keep money safe
Electricity and radio
Aid to farmers
Jobs, flood relief,electricity
16
Prohibition led to a rise in
Criminal Activity
Drinking Alcohol
Fear of Communism
Voting
17
Fordney-McCumber Tariff raised the tax on imports to its highest level. Why do we have tariffs?
Maintain a balance of trade
screw the competition
Keep foreign goods out
protect US made goods
18
An economic and political system based on a single party in which government controls business
Capitalism
Isolationism
Anarchism
Communism
19
What problems did farmers face that foreshadowed the Great Depression
speculation
supply dwindled/rise in demand
government intervention
Overproduction/decreased demand
20
The Harlem Renaissance was a rebirth in African American culture including performers such as -
Bessie Smith
Joe Louis
Calvin Coolidge
Louis Armstrong
21
Law establishing maximum number of immigrants allowed into the US from each foreign country.
Ku Klux Klan
19th Amendment
Prohibition
Quota System
22
What was Sacco and Vanzetti's
real
crime?
They were unemployed
They killed a paymaster and his guard
They were immigrants and anarchists
they were Communists
23
Made Model A cars affordable for the common man.
Henry Ford
Assembly Line
Quota System
Advertisements
24
Uneven distribution of income led to what problems?
consumer spending
financial security
few people controlling the nation's wealth
Consumers could not buy
25
First "talking" Cartoon
"Steamboat Willie"
"Cinderella"
"The Mouse From Mars"
"The Roaring Twenties"
26
One of the ideas of the Harding administration was to
end immigration to the US
return to a time before Progressive Reforms
End all bribery and corruption by government officials
disarm and end war