Roaring 20s/Great Depression/New Deal

Which of the following describes a reason why Prohibition failed?

• police had little success in stopping bootleggers
• many bootleggers moved their businesses to Canada
• many people moved to Europe, where they could still buy alcohol
• many people spent their money on their families instead of on alcohol

How did mass media help make athletes popular in the 1920s?

• most movies were about sports
• many newspaper articles were paid for by sports teams
• many athletes starred in radio dramas
• radio made it possible for fans to listen to sports games

The Harlem Renaissance had an impact in the United States on 

• poetry, jazz music, and dance in African American culture
• classical music, television, and radio
• mass production and women's suffrage
• the 19th Amendment

Franklin D Roosevelt's main goal was to help the people during the Great Depression.  His programs were known as

• The New Commission
• The Roaring Twenties
• The New Deal
• The New Depression

Which of the following was one cause of the Great Depression?

• the invention of the radio
• people buying goods with credit
• World War I
• Criminal activity took over the country

What caused the Dust Bowl?

• poor farming practices and a years long drought
• too much rain 
• farmers having a surplus of tools, and crops
• farmers throwing dirt in the air

Herbert Hoover dealt with The Great Depression by

• keeping the government out of the economy.  He believed the economy would get better on its own.
• putting in many programs to help people who were out of work
• starting The New Deal
• by offering many people jobs

Franklin D. Roosevelt dealt with The Great Depression by

• starting The New Deal
• keeping the government out of the economy
• building shantytowns
• taking jobs away from people

The 18th Amendment

• started Prohibition
• ended Prohibition
• gave women the right to vote
• gave children the right to vote

Agriculture Adjustment Administration (AAA)

• goal was to help farmers decrease production in order to raise prices of crops
• set-up work camps for millions of employed young men.  The men received pay and housing. Planted trees on public land
• employed people to build roads, schools, bridges, parks, and airports.
• built 50 dams along rivers in the South  to prevent flooding