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Unit 6: Roaring 20s & Great Depression Unit Test Study Guide
For this test you need to study the following:
 African Americans in the 1920s (blue foldable)
 Roaring 20s Notes (from stations)
 19th Amendment, Still Segregation, & Prohibition Notes (reading passages with questions)
 Great Depression Notes
 Great Depression Dominos
 Dust Bowl Notes (reading passage with questions)
 New Deal Notes
 New Deal Foldable
 Roaring 20s/Great Depression Study Guide (old)
 Unit 6: Roaring 20s & Great Depression Unit Test Study Guide (new)
On a separate sheet of paper, answer the following questions:
(#1-16 came from the OLD study guide—#17-24 are NEW questions)
1. What was the Great Migration?
2. List 5 reasons African Americans migrated during the Great Migration.
3. What genre of music was popular during the 1920s and which group of people brought this style of
music to France during WWI?
4. What was the Harlem Renaissance?
5. Why did the standard of living rise during the 1920s?
6. What did many new appliances rely on to work?
7. Why didn’t everyone get to enjoy the rising standard of living?
8. The radio was one of the most popular massed produced items in the 1920s. In what ways did it affect
American culture?
9. What was the 18th Amendment?
10. Where would people go to drink bootleg liquor?
11. What was the 19th Amendment?
12. African Americans moved north to get out of the segregated south. What did they find when they
reached the north?
13. Which two groups of immigrants became additional targets for the KKK when they arrived from
Eastern Europe?
14. What caused the Great Depression?
15. What were the effects of the Stock Market Crash and Overproduction?
16. How did the Great Depression affect the lives of Americans?
17. What caused the Dust Bowl?
18. How did the Dust Bowl affect the lives of Americans? (think about migration)
19. What was the New Deal?
20. What were the three main goals of the New Deal? (hint: 3R’s)
21. What was the purpose of the Civilian Conservation Corps?
22. What was the purpose of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
23. What was the purpose of the Social Security Act?
24. What was the purpose of the Securities Exchange Commission?
**The answers are on my webpage***
http://berkeley.schoolwires.net/cms/lib010/SC01916775/Centricity/Domain/2859/Roaring%2020sGreat%20D
epression%20Unit%20Test%20Study%20Guide%20Answers.pdf