Prosperity and Depression

1. Prosperity and Depression Chapter 7 Review

2. The time period after WWI in which people enjoyed an economic boom was known as • The Technology Age • The Roaring Twenties • The Great Depression

3. What method did Henry Ford use to produce cars that were less expensive and more efficient? • Moving Assembly Line • Using designs made in Japan • Hiring only immigrants

4. Why did radio companies start advertising to increase profits in 1922? • Actors began to demand money • New technology made broadcasting more expensive • Radio sales dropped because most people already had a radio

5. How did Americans feel during the 1920s? • Discouraged • Angry • hopeful

6. What was the original purpose of radio technology? • entertainment in homes • Providing sound for movies • communication between ships

7. What was the time of great activity in the arts by African American writers, musicians, and artists? • Holocaust • Industrial Revolution • Harlem Renaissance

8. What happened in 1929 when more people wanted to sell stocks than to buy them? • Stock Market Crash • Dust Bowl • People built Shantytowns

9. Areas of the Great Plains that faced severe droughts and wind storms in the early 1930s were known as • Dry Bowl • Okies • Dust Bowl

10. Charities help people get food by serving them soup and bread in • Hoovervilles • Shantytowns • Soup Kitchens

11. Many people left the Dust Bowl areas such as Oklahoma and migrated to • California • Detroit • Farms

12. Which amendment was know as the Prohibition Amendment? • 15th • 18th • 21st

13. How did the radio help make sports more popular? • Planes with radios took people to sporting events • Babe Ruth became a radio broadcaster • More people could listen to games

14. Roosevelt’s plan to help the economy recover is known as the • Square Deal • Real Deal • New Deal

15. Which act put a tax on salaries that workers could receive once they retired? • Retirement Act • Employment Act • Social Security Act

16. What was the purpose of the FDIC? • Regulate radio and telephone • Insure bank deposits • Manage social security system

17. What group employed men to plant trees on public land? • AAA • SSA • CCC

18. Many leaders were not concerned at first about the stock market crash because • They felt is was part of the ups and downs • They had not invested in the stock market • They knew that European countries would buy extra stocks

19. Many banks closed during the Great Depression because • Congress place high tariffs on banks • Banks had made unwise stock purchases • People could not repay their loans

20. Which industry benefited from the sudden accelerated production and sales of the automobile? • A. Oil Industry • Construction of highways • Both

21. Why was Germany’s economy hit harder than other countries by the Great Depression? • The value of German money was too high • Germany had huge debts to pay after losing WWI • The rest of Europe sent their troops to attack Germany

22. The three major goals of the New Deal were • Security, safety, stocks • Work, welfare, wealth • Relief, recovery, reform

23. Who’s Who? • President of the Us during the 20s and 30s. Shabby towns named after him. • An AA poet • First to fly solo across the Atlantic • Known for his musical talent • President who is known for his New Deal Plan

24. How did working life change for women? • Women joined the workforce • From farming to manufacturing • From factory to office

25. What was an effect of the Dust Bowl? • Factories laid off workers • Families left California to head east. • Many became migrant workers

26. What musical heritage developed jazz music? • Native Americans • Japanese Americans • African Americans