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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?
a. A time when African Americans moved from southern rural areas to urban areas
2. List 5 reasons African Americans migrated during the Great Migration.
a. Jim Crow laws and lynchings
b. Economic hardship of sharecropping
c. Effects of boll weevil
d. Lack of alternative economic opportunities
e. Get jobs in factories
3. What genre of music was popular during the 1920s and which group of people brought this style of
music to France during WWI?
a. Jazz; African Americans
4. What was the Harlem Renaissance?
a. A time when African Americans shared their culture as writers, artist, and musicians
5. Why did the standard of living rise during the 1920s?
a. Because of new technology such as cars, airplanes, radios, and movies that were massed
produced on the assembly line became available
6. What did many new appliances rely on to work?
a. Electricity
7. Why didn’t everyone get to enjoy the rising standard of living?
a. They could not afford to buy the automobiles and appliances that they helped to manufacture
8. The radio was one of the most popular massed produced items in the 1920s. In what ways did it affect
American culture?
a. Radios joined newspapers in helping advertisers attract new audiences
b. People started buying products they heard about on the radio
c. Songs instantly became popular across the nation
9. What was the 18th Amendment?
a. Prohibited the production and distribution of alcohol
10. Where would people go to drink bootleg liquor?
a. Speakeasies
11. What was the 19th Amendment?
a. Gave women the right to vote
12. African Americans moved north to get out of the segregated south. What did they find when they
reached the north?
a. Still faced discrimination; last hired/first fired; better jobs but continued discrimination and
violence
13. Which two groups of immigrants became additional targets for the KKK when they arrived from
Eastern Europe?
a. Catholic and Jewish immigrants
14. What caused the Great Depression?
a. Overproduction and declining purchases
15. What were the effects of the Stock Market Crash and Overproduction?
a. Many people became unemployed
b. Business began to fail
c. Banks began to fail
16. How did the Great Depression affect the lives of Americans?
a. Many people became homeless and had to live in shantytowns or “Hoovervilles”
17. What caused the Dust Bowl?
a. Farmers began using new farming equipment which allowed them to farm more land than ever
before. Grasses were replaced with wheat. There was too much wheat so prices began to drop
and fields were left bare. There was little rain fall, light soil, and high winds. The soil dried very
quickly and with no grass to hold the dirt in place, the winds easily picked up the dirt and
swirled it into dust clouds.
18. How did the Dust Bowl affect the lives of Americans? (think about migration)
a. Many people left the plains. Those headed toward California were called “Okies” and were not
met with a warm welcome.
19. What was the New Deal?
a. A set of programs proposed by Franklin Roosevelt to help get America out of the Great
Depression.
20. What were the three main goals of the New Deal? (hint: 3R’s)
a. Relief: assisted the poorest Americans by providing food and housing
b. Recovery: helped turn the economy around
c. Reform: programs to ensure that America would never see a Great Depression again
21. What was the purpose of the Civilian Conservation Corps?
a. Relief program that gave young men jobs in building parks and planting trees
b. Recovery program that put money back into the hands of consumers
22. What was the purpose of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
a. Reform program to restore and maintain confidence in the banking system by insuring deposits
of investors
23. What was the purpose of the Social Security Act and who did not receive its benefits?
a. Reform program that made sure the disabled and elderly would have some income and that the
unemployed were protected against lay-offs; did not cover works in agriculture and domestic
services
24. What was the purpose of the Securities Exchange Commission?
a. Reform program that regulated trading on Wall Street (Stock Market/Exchange) by preventing
out-of-control high-risk investments