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Chapter 28 The Roaring 20s Great Depression Part 1
Test Description: Test on the Roaring 20s Great Depression part 1
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) How did life change in America after WW1?
A
People owned cars, could travel farther to work. and many people moved to the suburbs.
B
All are ways that life changed in America after WW1.
C
Factories produced consumer goods that made life easier.
2) During the 1920s, young women did all of the following EXCEPT
A
Cut their hair and wear short shirts.
B
Vote in elections.
C
Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.
3) What was a result of the increased productivity caused by the invention of the assembly line?
A
Women were given more jobs.
B
More management positions were created.
C
Companies could sell their products at lower prices, they could raise workers wages, and still make money.
4) What evidence do we have that people thought the stock market would go up indefinitely?
A
They spent money like they were rich.
B
They wrote books about the market.
C
They invested heavily in the stock market, even borrowing money to buy stock - “Margin buying.”
5) What was the response to prohibition?
A
Illegal clubs called speakeasies opened.
B
Both were responses to prohibition.
C
Bars and liquor stores closed.
6) What was the dark side of the 1920s?
A
A new Ku Klux Klan emerged and lashed out at anyone they regarded as an enemy.
B
Electricity was expensive.
C
People had to much fun.
7) What was “Black Tuesday”, October 29, 1929?
A
The big shopping day after Thanksgiving.
B
The day the stock market crashed in a great wave of selling.
C
The day the electricity went out.
8) What problems of the 1920s led to the depression?
A
All of these problems led to the depression.
B
The loans to foreign nations that were not repaid.
C
The stock market crash, farmers debt and the poor.
9) What were some longer term impacts of the Crash/depression?
A
Businesses failed, or downsized.
B
All were long term impacts of the depression.
C
People lost their jobs or were paid less, and homelessness became a major problem.
10) What were “Hoovervilles”?
A
Towns of shacks made out of tar paper, cardboard, and scrap material built by the homeless.
B
Small groups of housing projects.
C
Large apartment buildings that the poor were allowed to rent for a reasonable amount of money.
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