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Unit 4 Test Review

Unit 4 Test Review. By Sarah Berni. During the Red Scare, there was widespread panic about what?. Communism. What was the quota system designed to reduce?. Immigration. Starting in the 1920’s, housing plans changed in order to include what?. Garages or Carports.

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Unit 4 Test Review

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  1. Unit 4 Test Review By Sarah Berni

  2. During the Red Scare, there was widespread panic about what? • Communism

  3. What was the quota system designed to reduce? • Immigration

  4. Starting in the 1920’s, housing plans changed in order to include what? • Garages or Carports

  5. Explain the Installment Plan. • Buying something by putting money down and making monthly payments until it is paid off

  6. Prohibition failed due to a lack of what? • Support, enforcement, money, resources…

  7. Name one way people got around the Prohibition law. • Bootlegging, speakeasies, made their own, bought sacramental wine, organized crime, smuggling…

  8. For what was John T. Scopes arrested? • Teaching evolution in schools

  9. What does a flapper look like? • Short died hair, short boy-but dress, little felt hats, beads and fringe…

  10. For what was Charles Lindbergh famous? • First solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic

  11. Who were F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway? • Famous 1920’s authors

  12. What was the Harlem Renaissance? • A literary and artistic movement that focuses on African-American culture

  13. Why did the farming industry suffer the most after the war? • They were overproducing

  14. Why is October 29, 1929 significant to the Great Depression? • The day the stock market crashed

  15. Why did so many banks fail during the 1930’s? • Stock market crash and bank runs

  16. What is a shantytown? • Towns of shacks where the homeless lived in anything they could find

  17. Name one cause of the Dust Bowl. • Drought, over-cropping, overgrazing, nothing to hold the soil down, wind

  18. After the stock market crashed, who said, “Any lack of confidence in the economic future…is foolish”? • Herbert Hoover

  19. What was Hoover’s most positive lasting legacy? • Boulder or Hoover Dam

  20. The RFC was designed to provide emergency financing for what industries? • Banking, railroad and insurance

  21. What happened to the Bonus Army? • They were gassed on Hoover’s orders

  22. What is the New Deal? • Roosevelt’s plan to solve the Great Depression

  23. During fireside chats Roosevelt addressed the Americans through what medium? • Radio

  24. The FSA was designed to do what job? • Make companies disclose full information about their stocks

  25. What did the AAA pay farmers to do? • Destroy crops and kill pigs

  26. Name one New Deal acronym that provided jobs to people. • CCC, NYA, WPA, CWA

  27. What is deficit spending? • When a government spends more money than it earns

  28. The Wagner Act protects the rights of what group of people? • Workers

  29. Name two groups of people for which the Social Security Act provides aid. • Unemployed, retired, disabled, needy families with children

  30. In 1924 what did Native Americans finally receive? • Full citizenship

  31. What did people use their radios for in the 1920’s and 1930’s? • Entertainment, news, sports, music, fireside chats

  32. Who painted American Gothic? • Grant Wood

  33. The FDIC was created to insure what? • Bank accounts

  34. What does the SEC do? • Regulates the stock market

  35. Name one way the New Deal impacted the environment. • Planting trees, building fire lookouts, building hiking trails, soil conservation, overgrazing protection, national parks, pollution, flood prevention, hydroelectricity…

  36. Explain one thing you learned during this unit that explains why America is what it is today.

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