Knowledge Masters!

1. Final Question Knowledge Masters! 1920s Life and Culture Vocabulary Great Depression Hoover FDR Misc. 100 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500 500

2. Bootlegger A 100

3. Someone who sold illegal alcohol during Prohibition A 100

4. The name given to the massive growth and popularity of African American culture during the 20s. A 200

5. Harlem Renaissance A 200

6. How did consumer practices change in the 1920s A 300

7. Credit and installment plans A 300

8. What was controversial about the palmer raids A 400

9. No sound evidence yet arrested and deported many people for being involved in radical communist movements A 400

10. Why did the popularity of fundamentalist religions increase in the 1920s? A 500

11. Prohibition – Hollywood sermons – fear of change A 500

12. How were racial tensions in the US represented in the Great Depression? B 100

13. Minority races lived in poverty before, the depression was only official when it hit white America B 100

14. How did the Great Depression affect family life? B 200

15. Homelessness, migrant lifestyle, divorces and domestic violence B 200

16. What was the unemployment level in the US in 1932? B 300

17. 23% B 300

18. Why might someone argue that the Great Depression was natural and unavoidable? B 400

19. In good time businesses increase production, and employment build a surplus and are then forced to lay off workers. When the surplus is gone they will hire more people. B 400

20. Give an example of a cause of the Great Depression that was the fault of • Individuals • Banks • Government • Business B 500

21. Variety B 500

22. What is a Hooverville? C 100

23. Name given to the shantytowns built by homeless folks in the Great Depression C 100

24. Define Rugged Individualism C 200

25. Success comes from individual effort C 200

26. Give 1 example of how Hoover attempted to stimulate the American Economy. Was it successful? C 300

27. Encouraged business owners to keep up pre Depression levels of production and employment • Cheerful public statements • Funding public works projects • Had little impact C 300

28. Give 1 example of how Hoover attempted to cope with the farm crisis. Was it successful? C 400

29. Federal Farm Board gave loans and set up cooperatives to try and reduce expenses and get higher crop prices Not successful C 400

30. Give 1 example of how Hoover attempted to stabilize financial institutions. Was it successful? C 500

31. $2 billion used to stabilize banks and large corporations Large corporations were helped but small businesses continued to fail, didn’t really make a dent. C 500

32. How did FDR’s approach to the Great Depression differ from Hoover’s? D 100

33. FDR believed in direct relief D 100

34. Which two of FDR’s policies were found unconstitutional? D 200

35. National Recovery Administration • National Industrial Recovery Act D 200

36. Which 3 of FDR’s programs worked to directly create jobs? D 300

37. Civilian Conservation Corps • Civil Works Administration • Public Works Administration D 300

38. How was the FDIC supposed to restore America’s faith in the banks? D 400

39. Their deposits were insured D 400

40. Describe an action of FDR that tried to solve the following issues of the Great Depression Lower standard of living Natural disasters Lack in aid Racial tension Poor individual choices Decrease in family life D 500

41. Various D 500

42. Define Bolshevik E 100

43. A communist E 100

44. Prohibition E 200

45. Banned sale, manufacture and • Transportation of alcohol 1920-1933 E 200

46. Scopes Trial E 300

47. Would evolution be taught in public schools E 300

48. Smoot-Hawley Tariff E 400

49. High tariff on imported goods supposed to increase sales of American goods at home but destroyed foreign markets’ abilities to buy US goods E 400

50. Dust Bowl E 500