Roaring 20’s and Great Depression Review
Ch. 8 and Ch. 9
1. What was one of the NAACP’s greatest political triumphs that occurred in 1930?
Defeating a racist judge nominated to the Supreme Court
2. Why were Sacco and Vanzetti feared? Fear of Foreigners
3. How many countries were represented at the Washington Conference in 1921 to discuss
disarmament? eight
4. What did African American arts become known as in the 20’s? Harlem Renaissance
5. The new morality of the 20’s glorified what? Personal Freedom
6. What repealed Prohibition? 21st Amendment
7. What happened in the Teapot Dome scandal? Albert B. Fall received bribes for allowing
private interests to lease lands containing U.S. Navy oil reserves.
8. Who took over as president when Warren G. Harding died? Coolidge
9. How was Henry Ford going to increase sales on his cars? Lowering the cost per car
10. According to Coolidge prosperity rested on what? Business Leadership
11. What system of manufacturing adopted by Henry Ford divided operations into simple
tasks and cut unnecessary motion to a minimum? Assembly line
12. The aviation industry received federal aid for building airports with the passage of what
in 1926? Air Commerce Act
13. ___Automobiles____ had become an accepted part of American life by the 1920’s.
14. The National Origins Act of 1924 and the demand for cheap labor in agriculture, mining,
and railroad industries contributed to the large wave of immigration from where?
Mexico
15. A center of creativity and freedom where many artist, writers, and intellectuals of the
20’s gathered? Greenwich Village
16. What was the Scopes trial about? Teaching evolution
17. What effect did the automobile industry of the 20’s have on American society? People
could live farther from their places of work
18. Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, and the Cotton Club were all part of what? Harlem
Renaissance
19. How did most Americans of the 20’s want to avoid future wars? Avoiding involvement
in world affairs.
20. Andrew Mellon believed in applying business principle to what? government
21. Who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association? Marcus Garvey
22. A national baseball hero of the 1920’s? Babe Ruth
23. What drove prices down during the stock market crash of October 1929? Investors
selling stocks at a frenzied pace.
24. During the Great Depression, when a bank collapsed, what happened? Depositors lost
their savings.
25. The bull market of the 1920’s lasted only as long as what? Investors continued putting
new money into the market
26. Before the late 1920s, stock prices generally reflected the stocks’ __true___________
value.
27. A long period of rising stock prices is known as what? Bull Market
28. In addition to the stock market crash of 1929, the economy was shaken by a slowdown
in what? retail sales
29. What portion of the U.S. workforce was unemployed by 1933? 25%
30. Many farmers during the Great Depression were forced to turn their farms over to who?
Banks that held their mortgages.
31. During the Great Depression, many farmers who were already under pressure from debt
and falling prices were devastated by what? Drought and the Dust Bowl
32. Why did many WWI veterans go to Washington D.C. in 1932 to lobby Congress? To get
them to pass legislation giving veterans their promised bonuses.
33. The Emergency Relief and Construction Act provided what to states for direct relief?
Loans
34. What were radio programs that carried over their story lines from day to day
nicknamed? Soap Operas
35. Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, and other painters of the 1930’s were referred to as
the what? regionalist schools
36. During the 30’s about how many Americans went to the movies each week? More than
60 million
37. What did the Hawley-Smoot Tariff lead to with declining stock prices in 1929? Decline
in U.S exports.
38. In addition to the stock market crash in 1929, what was another key cause of the
Depression? Overproduction
39. How did the Federal Reserve contribute to weaknesses in the stock market in the
1920’s? Keeping interest rates low.