VUS.10a

An independent woman who embraced new fashions and urban attitudes of the 1920’s would have been called –

• A Rosie the Riveter

• B a Whig

• C a carpetbagger

• D a flapper

President Franklin D. Roosevelt used mass media to communicate important messages about current events called "fireside chats" through -

• television

• radio

• newspapers

• magazines

By the 1930’s, millions of Americans went to the movies each week mainly to –

• watch presidential speeches

• escape from the realities created by the Depression

• learn job skills

• train for the war effort

One cause of the stock market crash was excessive investments made with borrowed money was called –

• tariffs

• overspeculation

• levies

• price quotas

Which was designed to protect American farmers and manufacturers from foreign competition, but restricted world trade?

• High tariffs

• Income taxes

• Surpluses

• Using credit

The Scopes Trial resulted over –

• A. immigration policies

• B. prohibition laws

• C. Darwin’s Theory

• D. tax increases

In an attempt to stimulate recovery, which sought to reduce crop surpluses by paying farmer who cut production?

• AAA

• FDIC

• CCC

• WPA

Besides radio and early movies, which best shaped cultural norms of the times by providing news, advertising products, showing fashion trends, and sparking fads?

• Religious newsletters

• Town hall meetings

• Presidential speeches

• Magazines and newspapers

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was considered to be a –

• pre-war group of advisors

• tax program

• relief measure

• protection for investments

Which demonstrates one consequence of the stock market crash of 1929?

• Jobs increased allowing more money circulation in the economy

• Banks had no money to give when people tried to withdraw their money

• The government protected bank deposits creating confidence

• Investment opportunities increased throughout the country