U.S. History - Test 8A
Depression, War, and Recovery
True or False
1. _____ The economy was booming in the early 1920’s.
2. _____ The 1920’s was the beginning of the air age
3. _____ The twenties were also called “the Roaring 20’s.”
4. _____ The 1920’s was a time of great positive change for minorities and immigrants.
5. _____ One of the biggest changes in the 1920’s came about because of prohibition.
6. _____ Many African Americans moved north during the 1920s.
7. _____ Questions about whether to teach ideas of creation or evolution in schools first
took place in the 1920’s.
8. _____ The Roaring Twenties was also called “the Jazz Age.”
9. _____ Americans began to have more issues with labor unions during the 1920s.
10. _____ One of the biggest forms of entertainment in the 1920s was listening to radio.
11. _____ Sporting events began to get more popular in the 1920s.
12. _____ The Harlem Renaissance made many African American performers into stars.
13. _____ The Lost Generation was a group of people who wrote about how they felt the
1920s was a depressing time.
14. _____ The Crash of 1929 had a lot to do with people who had lost a lot of money in
the stock market.
15. _____ When the Depression got worse, a lot of people blamed Herbert Hoover for
their suffering.
16. _____ During the Depression, millions of people lost their jobs and their homes.
17. _____ Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “first 100 days in office” refers to how long it took him to make
the White House wheelchair accessible.
18. _____ FDR was seen as a man who confronted trouble.
19. _____ Roosevelt started many new programs to help people find their way out of the depression.
20. _____ Most of Roosevelt’s critics were happy that he figured out a way to spend money the
government didn’t have.
21. _____ Another part of the Great Depression many people had to deal with was the Dust Bowl.
22. _____ During the Great Depression, many teenagers just left home, so their parents
would not have to worry about them any more.
23. _____ Eleanor Roosevelt did a lot to help musicians and sports stars.
24. _____ Many people who lived during the Great Depression were affected by it for the
rest of their lives.
25. _____ One thing Roosevelt did as president was make government a bigger part of people’s lives.
26. _____ Some of Roosevelt’s Great Depression programs are still around today.
27. _____ One issue that came out of Roosevelt’s ideas was that some people had a more
liberal view of government and some people had a more conservative view.
Which 10 of the things on this list happened
during the years of the Great Depression?
(Put a Y for “yes they happened” or an N for “no they didn’t happen)
1. _____ people lost jobs
2. _____ people got new jobs
3. _____ farmers grew a lot of extra food
4. _____ people became homeless
5. _____ people starved
6. _____ people were not able to pay their rent
7. _____ people bought new homes
8. _____ people committed suicide
9. _____ people lived in cardboard boxes
10. _____ there were huge floods and big dust storms
11. _____ since they weren’t working, people had lots of parties and good times
12. _____ people grew and canned their own food
13. _____ some people had mental problems
14. _____ some families were forced to sell their children
15. _____ people learned to live on less
16. _____ some people had to give up their slaves.
Multiple Choice
1. _____ In the 1920’s, most young people:
a.
b.
c.
d.
did everything their parents told them to do.
openly rebelled against their parent’s standards.
started getting jobs at very young ages.
thought America should continue fighting and “take over the world.”
2. _____ The 1930’s was the time of:
a.
b.
c.
d.
The Jazz Age
World War I
World War II
The Great Depression
3. _____ What event led to the beginning of this time period?
a.
b.
c.
d.
The end of World War I
The end of World War II
The stock market crash
The return of the country to capitalism
4. _____ When Roosevelt became President, he made a famous speech that included the words:
a.
b.
c.
d.
“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”
“Four score and seven years ago ….”
“The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself”
“ I really hate Herbert Hoover”
5. _____ When he was elected, Roosevelt promised a ________________ for every American.
a.
b.
c.
d.
new car
new deal
new home
new life
6. _____ Who was President of the United States when the Depression first hit?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Lincoln
Hayes
Hoover
Roosevelt
7. _____ During the Depression, wage cuts and unemployment eventually affected…
A.
B.
C.
D.
Mainly women
Factory workers only
Mainly farmers
All levels of society
Use for questions 8 and 9
8. _____ How might a historian use the chart above to argue that the New Deal ended the Great
Depression?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Unemployment dropped as a result of the New Deal.
Unemployment quickly dropped below natural levels after the start of World War II.
Unemployment continued to drop steadily throughout Roosevelt’s presidency.
Unemployment rose after the Stock Market Crash.
9. _____ How might a historian use the chart above to argue that the New Deal did NOT end the Great
Depression?
A.
B.
C.
D.
While unemployment may have dropped, it remained high and did not fall back to natural
levels until World War II.
Shortly after the New Deal was instituted, unemployment rates returned to 1933 levels.
Unemployment rose after the Stock Market Crash.
Unemployment rose throughout the duration of Roosevelt’s presidency.
10. _____ Which of the following changes did the New Deal bring about?
I.
ended the free enterprise system
II.
made the nation less democratic
III.
greatly increased the size and role of the federal government
IV.
led people to expect the government to help those who needed assistance
A.
B.
C.
D.
I and II only
I, III, and IV only
III and IV only
II and IV only
11. _____ Opponents of the New Deal often described it as a move toward this type of government.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Fascism
Capitalism
Socialism
Imperialism
Matching - Vocabulary
A. Getting things by using money that you don’t have.
1. _____ Social Welfare
B. Idea that people should take care of all their own needs
– without any help.
2. _____ Rugged Individualism
C. Money the government saves for you now, for you to
3. _____ Court Packing
use when you retire.
D. Idea that if government left businesses alone, they
4. _____ Fundamentalism
5. _____ Social Security
would act in a way that would benefit people.
E. Paying for things a little at a time.
F. Group that handles the money and trading of big
6. _____ Deficit Spending
businesses.
G. Time when our country was having all kinds of
7. _____ Installment Buying
8. _____ Mass Media
problems.
H. Radio, television, newspapers, etc…
I.
9. _____ Depression
A belief that the country and people should follow the
bible.
J. Idea that people may sometimes need help from the
10. _____ Stock Market
11. _____ Laissez Faire
government
K. Roosevelt’s plan to get more judges who’d help him
pass his plans for fixing the country.
1. _____ Charles Lindberg
Matching - People
A. Biggest man in the Chicago mob.
2. _____ Amelia Earhart
B. “New women” of the 1920’s.
3. _____ Louis Armstrong
C. “Saved” the country during the Great
Depression.
4. _____ Flappers
D. First to fly non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean.
E. Man who did very little to help out Americans
5. _____ Herbert Hoover
during the Depression.
6. _____ FDR
F. People who want few government controls and
more individual economic freedoms
7. _____ Eleanor Roosevelt
G. Famous Jazz Age musician.
H. Famous flyer, but no-one really knows what
8. _____ Conservatives
happened on this last flight.
9. _____ Liberals
I.
Did a lot to help women and minorities.
J. People who want the government to bring on
10. _____ Al Capone
social and economic changes
K. Group of advisors to President Roosevelt.
11. _____ The Brain Trust
1. _____ Fireside Chats
Matching - Events
2. _____ The Dust Bowl
A. Time of great African American musicians and artists.
B. Period where people feel they could judge the president
3. _____ Hawley-Smoot Tariff
4. _____ The Harlem Renaissance
5. _____ Stock Market Crash
and the job that he’s going to do.
C. This is generally thought of as the start of the Great
Depression.
D. Group of people and writers depressed about the world.
E. Roosevelt’s plan to fix the country.
6. _____ Black Tuesday
7. _____ The Great Depression
8. _____ The New Deal
F. Part of FDR’s plan to assure the country that everything
would be okay.
G. Government plan to make money by raising import taxes
H. Time of hardships across the country – and the world.
I.
9. _____ The Lost Generation
10. _____ Relief, Recovery, Reform
11._____ 100 Days
Roosevelt’s plan to fix the country.
J. This is generally thought of as the start of the Great
Depression.
K. One of the many hardships some Americans went through
during this time period
Tell me two things that would be characteristics (descriptions) of a 1920’s “flapper.”
1.
2.
Name two new inventions from the 1920’s:
3.
4.
Who was the most important American hero of the 1920’s?
5.
What did he do that made him so famous?
6.
Name 1 other “hero” of the 1920’s (and what they did):
7.
8.
Name 2 famous movies made in the 30’s.
9.
10.
Name 2 famous radio shows from the 30’s.
11.
12.
Name 1 famous band leader from the 30’s.
13.