Review Game Zone
Flash Cards
(current)
Games
Teachers
Search
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
All are ways that life changed in America after WW1.
B
People owned cars, could travel farther to work. and many people moved to the suburbs.
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
Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.
C
Vote in elections.
3) What was a result of the increased productivity caused by the invention of the assembly line?
A
More management positions were created.
B
Companies could sell their products at lower prices, they could raise workers wages, and still make money.
C
Women were given more jobs.
4) What evidence do we have that people thought the stock market would go up indefinitely?
A
They invested heavily in the stock market, even borrowing money to buy stock - “Margin buying.”
B
They wrote books about the market.
C
They spent money like they were rich.
5) What was the response to prohibition?
A
Bars and liquor stores closed.
B
Both were responses to prohibition.
C
Illegal clubs called speakeasies opened.
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 day the stock market crashed in a great wave of selling.
B
The big shopping day after Thanksgiving.
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 stock market crash, farmers debt and the poor.
C
The loans to foreign nations that were not repaid.
9) What were some longer term impacts of the Crash/depression?
A
All were long term impacts of the depression.
B
Businesses failed, or downsized.
C
People lost their jobs or were paid less, and homelessness became a major problem.
10) What were “Hoovervilles”?
A
Large apartment buildings that the poor were allowed to rent for a reasonable amount of money.
B
Towns of shacks made out of tar paper, cardboard, and scrap material built by the homeless.
C
Small groups of housing projects.
*select an answer for all questions
Check Results & Get Answers
Play Games with the Questions Above
Teachers: Create FREE classroom games with your questions
Click for more info!
©2007-2024
ReviewGameZone.com
|
About
|
Privacy
|
Contact
|
Terms
|
Site Map
WAIT! Find what you needed?
×
Still Looking for the Answers?
Have Another Question?
Play a Review Game with These Questions?
Want to Make Your Own Test Like This One?