The Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression

Flashcards about the 1920s and the Great Depression

In spite of the proclaimed moral foundation of the 18th Amendment, it led to:

A nationwide increase in crime and lawlessness

A result of the passage of the 19th Amendment was:

Women of different races believed tended to believe unified female political participation was impossible

Part of what made the '20s 'roar' was a booming economy. This was the result of all of the following EXCEPT:

Illegal trade in alcohol

Increasing consumerism in the 1920s was the result of all of the following EXCEPT:

The Great Migration

The 'New Negro' movement of the 1920s broadened and redefined American culture. An important aspect of this artistic movement was its:

Proud assertion of African heritage

All of the following are reasons America fell in love with organized sports in the 1920s EXCEPT:

More Americans were attending college, introducing greater numbers of people to sports like football and baseball

Ownership of automobiles dramatically increased in the 1920s and were an integral part of the changing social and economic fabric of the country. This was largely due to:

The adoption of the principles of 'scientific management' to increase production and lower purchasing costs of automobiles

Radio broadcasts brought dramatic changes to the lives of ordinary Americans by:

Connecting Americans with instant news and participating in cultural events

The Great Migration was the result of 'push' factors like:

The violence and repression in the Jim Crow South

The Great Migration was the result of 'pull' factors like:

Demand for factory work in the industrial mid-west

'Youth culture' emerged for the first time in the 1920s the result of:

Urbanization and new technology sharing trends on a national scale

All of the following are examples of 1920s 'youth culture' EXCEPT:

Talkies

The thesis of Booker T. Washington's Industrial Education for the Negro was:

African-Americans need to socially and economically advance through 'industrial development'

The emergence of 'youth culture' in the 1920s was a product of all of the following EXCEPT:

Slang

Elements of youth culture in the 1920s were:

Changes in clothing and hair styles, use of language and music

In A Flapper's Appeal to Parents, Page:

Both admonishes the 'older' generation for looking down on Flappers, but also asks for their guidance and support

Blevins' observations in Flapper Jane address:

The shockingly revealing clothing and concerns about their relation to morals and behavior

The values and mores of the Harlem Renaissance are reflected in art through:

Its emphasis on the African roots of Blacks

Jazz, a uniquely American form of music, became wildly popular (and synonymous with) the 1920s because of:

Its association with youth culture, speakeasies and its growth and spread via new technologies

All of the following were reasons behind the 'urban/rural divide' in the 1920s EXCEPT:

Urban America rejected the influx of both migrants and immigrants

All of the following are true of the Harlem Renaissance EXCEPT:

It sought approval of White America

One of the root causes of 'urban/rural divide' that became so pronounced in the 1920s was:

A perception of cities as locations of vice, and crime as opposed to rural communities which were centers of virtue and morality

The Scopes 'Monkey Trial' was about:

Whether John Scopes could teach evolution in a public high school

The Republican administrations of Coolidge, Harding and Hoover did all of the following EXCEPT:

Support labor unions

One of the results of the Republican Presidents of the 1920s was:

A rapidly expanding (perhaps to the point of unsustainability) stock market

All of the following were 'new technologies' developed and expanded during the 1920s EXCEPT:

Television

The 'new technologies' of the 1920s were instrumental in the economic expansion of the decade because:

New markets were created along with new methods of marketing (selling)

An example of the 'ripple effect' of new technologies in the automobile industry is:

More autos require the construction of roads, the drilling of petroleum, the production of replacement parts and the growth of new industries to service cars

As the American economy in the 1920s expanded with new technologies, new 'company towns' emerged, such as:

Detroit, Los Angeles, Houston, Seattle

The 'Red Scare' was the result of:

Revolution in Russia, large numbers of immigrants and labor unrest

When there is an economic contraction (down-turn, 'recession' or 'depression') it spirals and compounds when:

People stop buying, businesses lay-off labor, people spend less because they are worried about their jobs

Among the reasons the Great Depression was 'great' was:

People lost faith in banks, which could not loan money for businesses to start-up or expand, so the economy stagnated

The problem of the concentration of wealth as a contributing factor in the Great Depression is that:

A handful of super-rich do not have the ability to support a nation's economy exclusively on their own

Speculation on the stock market contributed to the Great Depression by:

Artificially inflating the value of stocks

'Paper profits' were a contributing factor to the Great Depression because:

Businesses didn't have to disclose their financial health, lending to speculation

Speculation helped weaken the financial stability of the country because it:

Caused stocks to soar in value, causing a massive sell-off when the stock market began to tumble

The narrow economic expansion of the American economy in the 1920s contributed to the Great Depression by:

Consumer not needing to purchase many of the new technologies more than once

The Smoot-Hawley tariff contributed to the depth and breadth of the Great Depression by:

Unintentionally (but foreseeably) triggering reciprocal tariffs by other countries

Hoover's response to the Great Depression was to:

Encourage corporations and businesses to 'voluntarily cooperate' by cutting working hours rather than laying off employees

The relationship between these two graphs shows:

How there is a correlation between bank failures and business failures

The graph below shows:

The dramatic depth of the Great Depression

All of the following were causes of the Dust Bowl EXCEPT:

The ineffectiveness of the Smoot-Hawley tariff

The tens of thousands of people who migrated to the San Joaquin and Willamette valleys looking for work were called:

'Oakies' and 'Arkies' because they were climate refugees escaping the Dust Bowl

Contrary to what you might imagine, the response of most Americans to the Great Depression was:

Self-reflection and blame, resilience and determination

In our 'jigsaw' activity on the experiences of Americans during the Great Depression, it was clear that:

Not everyone was suffering or had similar experiences

Popular culture in the 1930s reflected the 'zeitgeist' (spirit of the age) emphasizing all of the following EXCEPT:

Films and music that emphasized bitterness and blame towards the bourgeoisie and politicians

Films during the Great Depression emphasized all of the following EXCEPT:

The need for our economic system to be drastically overhauled

The three 'Rs' of the New Deal were:

Restore confidence, Reform the economy, provide Relief for those suffering

All of the following were part of the New Deal's program to address structural weaknesses within the economy EXCEPT:

The CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)