Test Questions
A radio station is playing a song with a blues singer. Which artist would likely be featured on this station?
A. Bessie smith
B. Duke Ellington
C. Louis Armstrong
D. Aaron copland
A. Bessie smith
Time period when making, selling, and transporting alcohol was illegal
Prohibition
1920s Artist who painted landscapes of the Southwest
Georgia O'Keeffe
What event caused many businesses to close and people to lose their jobs?
Stock Market Crash
What is the name for run-down apartments that many immigrants lived in?
Tenements
What was one reason African Americans moved to cities in North and Midwest?
A. Lack of discrimination
B. Discovery of gold and silver
C. Better employment opportunities
D. Superior farmland
C. Better employment opportunities
Which amendment banned alcohol?
Harlem Renaissance painter who chronicled the Great Migration
Jacob Lawrence
Many farmers were forced to move because of the...
Dust Bowl
What industry was Andrew Carnegie the captain of?
Steel
- A large number of banks were closed and other businesses failed.
- One fourth of workers were without jobs.
- Large numbers of people were hungry and homeless.
- Farmers incomes fell to low levels
What would most likely be the title of this list?
A. Cultural Climate of the 1920s
B. The Great Migration
C. Impact of the Great Depression
D. Prohibition in America
C. Impact of the Great Depression
Which amendment ended prohibition
21st
1920s Writer who wrote about the Jazz Age
F. Scott Fitzgerald
What percent of Americans were unemployed after the Stock Market Crash?
25% (1/4)
What famous ship sank in Havana Harbor before the Spanish American War?
USS Maine
What was the result of the Federal Reserve's poor monetary policies?
A. Bankers had to much money saved.
B. The banking system collapsed.
C. High tariffs were imposed on all international products.
D. Americans had little debt due to buying on installment plans.
B. The banking system collapsed.
What is the name for illegal places to get alcohol
Speakeasy
1920s Writer who wrote about the struggle of migrant workers from the Dust Bowl
John Steinbeck
Roosevelt’s government program to help the nation recover from the Depression
The New Deal
What invention did the Wright brothers invent?
Airplane
Which three were major features of the New Deal?
Social Security
Increased rights for labor
Environmental improvement programs
Monetary relief to close farms
Social Security
Increased rights for labor
Environmental improvement programs
What is the name for people who illegally sold alcohol?
Bootleggers
Harlem Renaissance singer famous for the Blues
Bessie Smith
What was the nickname for the day people rushed to the banks to withdraw their money?
Black Tuesday
What court case established "Separate but Equal"
Plessy v. Ferguson