1920’s and Great Depression Study Guide
1. What was President Harding’s message to the American people, and what did it mean?
(pg. 322)
2. What happened to the economy of the United States after World War I? (pg.322)
3. Why did Ford use assembly lines in his factories? (pg. 323)
4. How did mass production increase prosperity during the 1920s? (
5. Why did investors buy stocks? (pg. 324)
6. Which three Presidents were elected in the 1920’s? (pg.324)
7. Why did President Coolidge cut taxes? (pg. 324)
8. Who did Hoover think was responsible for America’s prosperity? (pg. 325)
9. Describe the impact of increased car ownership during the 1920’s. (pg. 329)
10. What effect did electric appliances have on people’s lives? (pg. 329)
11. Why did the 1920s become known as the Roaring Twenties? (pg. 329)
12. What kind of music became popular during the 1920s? (pg. 330)
13. What happened during the Harlem Renaissance? (pg. 330)
14. What was the topic of the first radio broadcast in America? (pg. 331)
15. Who were Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, and Helen Willis Moody? (pg. 331)
16. What is a “talkie”, and when did the first one appear? (pg. 331)
17. What significant events in aviation marked the 1920s? (pg. 332)
18. Which group spread hatred against immigrants, African Americans, Catholics, and Jewish
people? (pg. 332)
19. What did the Eighteenth Amendment attempt to prohibit? (pg.333)
20. Which event put an end to the prosperity of the 1920s? (pg. 336)
21. What was the Great Depression? (pg. 337)
22. What caused the Great Depression? (pg.337)
23. About how many people in the United States were unemployed by 1932? (pg. 338)
24. What did charities and religious groups do to help people during the Great Depression?
(pg. 338)
25. What and where was the Dust Bowl? (pg.338)
26. What were Hoover’s strategies for improving the economy in the late 1920s? (pg. 344)
27. What did Franklin Delano Roosevelt promise he would do as President? (pg. 345)
28. What did Roosevelt do to keep his promise? (pg. 345)
29. Why did Eleanor Roosevelt say, “Government has a responsibility to help the weak”?
(pg.345)
30. Name some of Roosevelt’s New Deal programs. (pg.346)
31. What did people working for the TVA do? (pg.346)
32. What New Deal programs are still in effect today? (pg.346)
33. Was Franklin D. Roosevelt elected before or after the Great Depression?
34. Compare President Roosevelt’s and President Hoover’s solutions to the Great Depression.
(pg.
35. What are price incentives?
36. What role did banks play in the Great Depression?
37. Why did farmers living in the Dust Bowl move to other regions of the United States?
38. How did areas change when farmers from the Dust Bowl moved in?
39. How did life change for American’s during the Great Depression?
40. How did the stock market crash of 1929 effect American’s economic choices?
41. How did price incentives help American’s get out of debt during the Great Depression?
42. How did groups like the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Works Progress Administration,
and the Tennessee Valley Authority help to improve the country while putting unemployed
American’s back to work?
43. What is opportunity cost?
44. What is voluntary exchange?
45. What is productivity?
46. What is specialization?
47. How does a business choose the best location to build its factories and shops?
48. Why is choosing a good location important in distributing goods and services among the
United States and other countries?
49. What laws or amendments were passed during the 1920s?
50. Why did factory workers lose their jobs during the Great Depression?
WHO AM I?
boom, hydroelectricity, minimum wage, stock, aviator, prohibition, stock market,
regulation, population map, charity, depression, unemployment, broadcast, debt,
Social Security, assembly line, division of labor
1. I am sent out over the radio or television stations. Who am I?
2. I am a fast period of economic growth. Who am I?
3. I am a rule or a law. Who am I?
4. I am a person that flies airplanes. Who am I?
5. I am the act of forbidding something. Who am I?
6. I am what happed when people look for a job, but can’t find one. Who I am?
7. I am when one person owes another person money. Who am I?
8. I am electricity produced by moving water. Who am I?
9. I am a way of organizing work. Who am I?
10. I am the place where stocks are bought and sold. Who am I?
11. I am an organization that helps people in need. Who am I?
12. I get my name during times when people can’t find work and businesses close. Who am I?
13. I provide money to people over the age of 65. Who am I?
14. I am a share of ownership in a company. Who am I?
15. I am a long line of workers and equipment. Who am I?
16. I show where people live. Who am I?
17. I am the lowest amount of money workers can be paid. Who am I?
42. How did groups like the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Works Progress Administration,
and the Tennessee Valley Authority help to improve the country while putting unemployed
American’s back to work?
43. What is opportunity cost?
44. What is voluntary exchange?
45. What is productivity?
46. What is specialization?
47. How does a business choose the best location to build its factories and shops?
48. Why is choosing a good location important in distributing goods and services among the
United States and other countries?
49. What laws or amendments were passed during the 1920s?
50. Why did factory workers lose their jobs during the Great Depression?
WHO AM I?
boom, hydroelectricity, minimum wage, stock, aviator, prohibition, stock market,
regulation, population map, charity, depression, unemployment, broadcast, debt,
Social Security, assembly line, division of labor
1. I am sent out over the radio or television stations. Who am I?
2. I am a fast period of economic growth. Who am I?
3. I am a rule or a law. Who am I?
4. I am a person that flies airplanes. Who am I?
5. I am the act of forbidding something. Who am I?
6. I am what happed when people look for a job, but can’t find one. Who I am?
7. I am when one person owes another person money. Who am I?
8. I am electricity produced by moving water. Who am I?
9. I am a way of organizing work. Who am I?
10. I am the place where stocks are bought and sold. Who am I?
11. I am an organization that helps people in need. Who am I?
12. I get my name during times when people can’t find work and businesses close. Who am I?
13. I provide money to people over the age of 65. Who am I?
14. I am a share of ownership in a company. Who am I?
15. I am a long line of workers and equipment. Who am I?
16. I show where people live. Who am I?
17. I am the lowest amount of money workers can be paid. Who am I?