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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.
d)

During the 1920s, young women did all of the following EXCEPT
a) Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.
b) Cut their hair and wear short shirts.
c) Vote in elections.
d)

What was a result of the increased productivity caused by the invention of the assembly line?
a) Companies could sell their products at lower prices, they could raise workers wages, and still make money.
b) Women were given more jobs.
c) More management positions were created.
d)

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.
d)

What was the response to prohibition?
a) Both were responses to prohibition.
b) Illegal clubs called speakeasies opened.
c) Bars and liquor stores closed.
d)

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.
d)

What was “Black Tuesday”, October 29, 1929?
a) The day the stock market crashed in a great wave of selling.
b) The day the electricity went out.
c) The big shopping day after Thanksgiving.
d)

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.
d)

What were some longer term impacts of the Crash/depression?
a) All were long term impacts of the depression.
b) People lost their jobs or were paid less, and homelessness became a major problem.
c) Businesses failed, or downsized.
d)

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.
d)

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