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Roaring Twenties/Great Depression
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To review main topics from the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression.
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The worst period of economic hardship in American history.
Roaring 20's
Harlem Renaissance
Dust Bowl
Great Depression
2
How did mass media help make
athletes
popular in the 1920's?
Many newspaper articles were paid for by sports teams.
Many athletes starred ins radio dramas.
Radio made it possible for fans to listen to sports games.
Most movies were about sports.
3
FDR created programs to help the economy during the Great Depression. What did he call this?
The New Depression
The New Deal
The New Roaring Twenties
The New Commission
4
The Works Progress Administration....................
provided monthly payments to the elderly and disabled.
employed people to build roads, schools, bridges, and parks.
set up work camps for millions of young men.
built 50 dams along rivers in the South to prevent flooding.
5
Nicknamed Satchmo or Pops. An American trumpeter, composer, singer, and occasional actor.
Louis Armstrong
Langston Hughes
Charles Lindberg
Henry Ford
6
How did Herbert Hoover want to handle the Great Depression?
Hoover believed the government should just stand aside.
Hoover wanted to give out money to the poor.
Hoover wanted the government to take over everything.
Hoover wanted to control businesses.
7
An American track and field athlete. 4-time Olympic gold medalist in the 1936 games.
Amelia Earhart
Babe Ruth
Margaret Mitchell
Jesse Owens
8
An American aviation pioneer and author. First female to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
flappers
Eleanor Roosevelt
Margaret Mitchell
Ameila Earhart
9
How did Franklin D. Roosevelt want to handle the Great Depression?
FDR wanted to create programs called the New Deal.
FDR made children work on the Hoover Dam.
FDR opened 2,000 new banks.
FDR believed that the government shouldn't help at all.
10
The Harlem Renaissance had an impact in the US on....
poetry, jazz music, and dance in African Amer. culture
the 19th amendment
classical music, television, and radio
mass production and women's suffrage
11
What allowed the Model T to be sold for a cheaper price?
the use of cheaper materials
the use of the assembly line
the fact that no 2 cars were exactly alike
not following safety standards
12
An American industrialist, founder of Ford Motor Company, helped create the assembly line.
Babe Ruth
Henry Ford
Charles Lindberg
Langston Hughes
13
A worker who moves from place to place to harvest crops.
slave
hobo
migrant worker
immigrant
14
An American poet, novelist, and playwright. Early innovator of "jazz poetry".
Louis Armstrong
Margaret Mitchell
Louis Armstrong
Langston Hughes
15
An American author and journalist. Her only novel published was
Gone With the Wind
.
Langston Hughes
Eleanor Roosevelt
Amelia Earhart
Margaret Mitchell
16
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration..............
set up work camps for millions of young men.
provided monthly payments to the elderly and disabled.
helped farmers decrease production and raise prices of crops
built 50 dams along rivers in the South to prevent flooding.
17
How did the Great Depression affect the lives of many Americans?
Many people moved from shantytowns to suburbs.
Many children quit school to help their families earn money.
Farmers became more successful.
More people got married right after high school or college.
18
A place where stocks are bought and sold.
credit
Stock Market
store
mall
19
Why did Prohibition fail?
Many bootleggers moved their businesses to Canada.
Many people moved to Europe and bought alcohol there.
Police had little success stopping bootleggers.
People spent money on their families, not alcohol.
20
An American aviator, made the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927.
Charles Lindbergh
Louis Armstrong
Langston Hughes
Amelia Earhart
21
An area of the Great Plains affected by large dust storms.
Midwest
Harlem Renaissance
Great Depresstion
Dust Bowl
22
The condition of being out of work.
unemployment
mass media
migrant worker
mass production
23
The Tennessee Valley Authority................
provided monthly payments to the elderly and disabled.
built 50 dams in the South to prevent flooding.
set up work camps for millions of young men.
helped farmers decrease production and raise prices of crops
24
An amendment that outlawed the making, sale, and transporting of alcoholic beverages.
20th amendment
18th amendment
19th amendment
21st amendment
25
The making of large quantities of goods that are exactly alike.
migrant worker
credit
mass production
mass media
26
What caused the Dust Bowl?
A drought and farmers didn't take care of their farms.
Too few crops.
The Great Depression
Too much rain
27
Borrowed money.
Stock Market
credit
Harlem Renaissance
mass production
28
An amendment that ended Prohibition.
19th amendment
18th amendment
21 amendment
20th amendment
29
Which of the following was NOT a negative effect of the 18th Amendment?
Gangsters, crime, and violence rose.
Bootleggers brought alcohol from other countries.
People spent more money on families, rather than alcohol.
Bootleggers sold alcohol illegally.
30
An American professional baseball player with the MLB. Played 22 seasons from 1914 - 1935.
Louis Armstrong
Michael Jordan
Jesse Owens
Babe Ruth
31
A public form of communication that reaches large audiences.
Great Depression
migrant worker
mass media
Dust Bowl
32
Period in which artists used writing, music, and painting to share feelings about African Amer.
Harlem Renaissance
18th amendment
Great Depression
21st amendment
33
The Civilian Conservation Corps..............
provided monthly payments to the elderly and disabled.
helps farmers decrease production and raise prices of crops.
employed people to build roads, schools, bridges, and parks.
set up work camps for millions of young men.
34
The Social Security Board..............
employed people to build roads, schools, bridges, and parks.
provided monthly payments to the elderly and disabled.
helped farmers decrease production and raise prices of crops
set up work camps for millions of young men.
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Which of the following was one cause of the Great Depression?
People buying goods with credit.
Criminal activity took over the country.
World War I
The invention of the radio.
