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1
This act was passed to help the public gain trust back in banks during the Great Depression
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Wagner Act
Works Progress Administration
2
Whose presidency was scarred by scandal
Hoover
Harding
Wilson
Roosevelt
3
Homerun record holder of the 1920's
Mickey Cochran
Lou Gehrig
Babe Ruth
Shoeless Joe Jackson
4
Who was an opponent of President Roosevelt and was a proponent of giving a stipend to the elderly?
Albert Fall
Father Charles Couglin
Huey Long
Dr. Francis Townsend
5
Two anarchists who were accused of robbing a shoe factory
Sacco and Vanzetti
Scopes and Jennings Bryan
Moran and Dillinger
Capone and O'Ba
6
What was the scandal where navy oil was leased to private executives
Ohio Gang Scandal
Teapot Dome Scandal
Coffee Pot Scandal
The Blacksox Scandal
7
Law passed by Congress to limit the number of immigrants coming into America
Emergency Banking Act
Emergency Quota Act
Black Tuesday
Securities Exchange Act
8
This act ended Prohibition
21st Amendment
19th Amendment
18th Amendment
20th Amendment
9
This employed young men 18-25 whose families were on welfare.
CWA
WPA
NYA
CCC
10
When government adopts a hands off policy it is called _________________
Trickle down
Hands off
Laissez faire
Capitalism
11
What ended the Great Depression?
Roosevelt Recession
War Preparedness Program
New Deal
WWII
12
How the average American was able to purchase all these items in the 1920s
Bonus Army
Dawes Plan
Prohibition
Credit
13
Program suggested by Huey Long to take from the rich and give to the poor.
Share our Wealth
Wagner Act
Social Security
Robinhood Lives
14
Which one is NOT one of the three R's for the New Deal?
Reform
Recovery
Relief
Roaring
15
What was the name of the overall Roosevelt program to help end the Great Depression?
Spirit of St Louis
New Deal
Bonus Army
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
16
Hoover created this to try to funnel money to corporations to shore up businesses and industry.
Federal Reserve Borad
FDIC
Banker's Trust
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
17
This New Deal law helped regulate the Stock Market
Civilian Conservation Corp
Tennessee Valley Authority
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Security Exchange Act
18
President Hoover's concept of helping stir the depressed economy
Keynesian Economics
Speculation
Trickle Down Economy
VooDoo Economics
19
This program brought flood relief and cheap electricity to many.
TVA
TWA
PWA
CWA
20
The name for people who illegally made alcohol during Prohibition
Bootleggers
Flappers
Speakeasies
Hoovervilles
21
Paid farmers not to farm
WPA
CWA
CCC
AAA
22
President Roosevelt used which economic theory to try and stabalize the economy during the Great Depression
Big Bang Theory
Lassiez Faire
Keynesian economics
Trickle Down Theory
23
Which industry was
NOT
effected by the early automobile industry?
Road Construction
Airports
Gas Stations
Motels
24
What did they call the time period in the 1920s when people were terrified of communists?
Prohibition
Red Scare
Isolationism
Emergency Quota Act
25
What did they call women who smoked, drank and did the Charleston
Flappers
Cat's Meow
Bees Knees
All Wet
26
1920s trial that pitted science against religion
Court Packing Plan
Scopes Monkey Trial
Teapot Dome Scandal
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
27
Most notorious gangster of the 1920's
John Dillinger
Lucky Luciano
Bugs Moran
Al Capone
28
What two groups competed against each other during the 1920s?
Mob v Police
Left v Right
Rich v Poor
Urban v Rural
29
Which one of these Harlem Renaissance artists was
NOT
a musician?
Langston Hughes
Duke Ellington
Bessie Smith
Louis Armstrong
30
Name given to the cardboard shacks inhabited by the Bonus Army and other victims of the Depression
town hall
Hootervilles
Hoovervilles
US Army barracks
31
Illegal bars of the time were called
pubs
saloons
speakeasies
hayburners
32
Music style that grew in popularity during the 1920s
Rock and Roll
Jazz
Rap
Classical
33
Name the man responsible for making inexpensive cars
William Knudsen
William Durant
Henry Ford
Alfred Sloan
34
Plan put together to help America get paid back from Britain and France for loans during WWI
Fundamentalism
Dawes Plan
Court Packing Plan
Minimum Wage
35
What group got a rebirth in the 1920s due to modern changes and hatred of immigrants and others?
The Lost Generation
New Deal
Ku Klux Klan
Hoovervilles
36
Helps elderly, disabled and survivors.
Wagner Act
NYA
Welfare
Social Security
37
Term used for WWI veterans who wanted their pensions early
Rebels
Hoover's Army
Ohio Gan
Bonus Army
38
Foreign policy adopted by the United States after World War I
Jazz
Isolationism
Socialism
Nationalism
39
President 1st elected during the Great Depression and then was elected three more times
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Warren G. Harding
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
40
This man started the UNIA and the New Negro movement during the Harlem Renaissance
Marcus Garvey
Langston Hughes
Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
41
Group of American writers who after WWI were disillusioned with America and moved to Paris
Lost Generation
New Deal
Bonus Army
Red Scare
42
When a person puts 10% down in order to buy stock they are buying the stock on __________
Cash
Dividend
Margin
Return
43
Which was not a cause of the stock market crash
Overproduction
Using own money to buy stock
Decreased Demand
Reduced foreign trade
44
President who believed the business of America is business.
Warren G. Harding
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Calvin Coolidge
45
Product that became very popular in the 1920's
radios
computers
refrigerators
televisions
46
In order to add justices to the Suprem Court FDR suggested this idea.
Judiciary Act of 1935
Midnight Judges Bill
Court Packing Plan
New Supreme Order
47
What was one criticism of Roosevelt from the Left?
Kept capitalism alive
Brought in socialism
He couldn't walk
Traitor to his class
48
Nickname given to Americans who left to California during the Dust Bowl.
Sooners
Okies
Flappers
bootleggers
49
Which of the following was not an Electrical Convenience of the 1920s?
Roomba
Washing Machine
Toaster
Iron
50
What event in the 1930s created Okies?
Dust Bowl
Stock Market Crash
Socialism
Great Depression
51
Roosevelt opponent who was a radio personality and eventually lost his job because of antisemitic views
Dr. Francis Townsend
Father Charles Coughlin
Huey Long
Herbert Hoover
52
Who was the most famous singer from the Harlem Renaissance time period?
Margaret Sanger
Zola Neale Hurston
Eleanor Roosevelt
Bessie Smith
53
First man to fly across the Atlantic Ocean
Chuck Yeager
Charles Lindberg
Jimmy Doolittle
Orville Wright
54
October 29, 1929 is referred to as _________________
Black Tuesday
Day the Music Died
Black Monday
Day of Infamy
55
Which amendment established prohibition
16th
19th
18th
17th
56
Man elected President in 1928
Wilson
Hoover
Harding
Roosevelt
57
Which of the following is
NOT
a legacy of the New Deal?
Avoided Revolution, restored confidence
Power of Presidency
Gun regulation
Welfare State
58
What New Deal law gave the right for Unions to organize and negotiate with owners?
Civilian Conservation Corp
Wagner Act
Securities Exchange Act
Social Security Act