Matching
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KEY TERMS AND PEOPLE
Match each
item with the correct statement below. a. | Dust Bowl | b. | Charity | c. | Aviator | d. | Roaring
Twenties | e. | Mass Production | | |
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Organization that helps people in need.
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A
time period when people thought that time was flying by like a speeding car
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3.
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A
period when dust storms carried away the topsoil.
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The
making of many of the same product at once.
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5.
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A
person who is able to fly an aircraft.
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KEY TERMS AND PEOPLE
Match each
item with the correct statement below. a. | Stock | b. | Stock
Market | c. | Prohibition | d. | regulation | e. | assembly line | | |
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historic period during which alcoholic beverages were banned
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part
ownership n a company
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a
place where stocks are sold a bought
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9.
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a
rule or law that regulates something
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a
long line of workers that work together for one similiar goal
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KEY TERMS AND PEOPLE
Match each
item with the correct statement below. a. | Minimum wage | b. | Hydroelectricity | c. | Herbert Hoover | d. | Franklin
Roosevelt | | |
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the
lowest amount of money that a worker can be paid
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president of the United States before the depression
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president of the United States after the depression
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electricity that is produced by running water
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Multiple Choice
Identify the
letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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APPLYING MAIN IDEAS
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The
Eighteenth Amendment, sometimes called the “noble experiment,” did which of the
following? a. | restricted
speculation in the stock market | b. | banned the manufacture, sale, or transportation of
liquor | c. | banned anarchists from immigrating to the United
States | d. | established company unions to reduce the power of the labor
movement | | |
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What
group benefitted from the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920? a. | temperance
supporters | c. | labor union
organizers | b. | women | d. | law enforcement officers | | | | |
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What
name was given to the period of achievements of black artists, writers, and musicians in New York
during the 1920s? a. | the Harlem
Renaissance | c. | the Roaring
Twenties | b. | the Jazz Age | d. | the Red Scare | | | | |
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What
unintended effect of the Eighteenth Amendment led to its repeal? a. | a drop in stock
prices | b. | an increase in alcohol consumption | c. | a rising
disregard for the law | d. | a drop in farm prices | | |
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Which
of the following was an effect of the other three? a. | high
winds | c. | overgrazed
pasture | b. | Dust Bowl | d. | drought | | | | |
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20.
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Which
of the following groups strongly objected to the actions of the Tennessee Valley
Authority? a. | private power
companies | c. | the rural
poor | b. | displaced
farmers | d. | textile industry
workers | | | | |
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APPLYING MAIN IDEAS
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Which
of the following would make the BEST title for this Venn diagram? a. | Transportation
in the 1920s | c. | Cultural Changes
in the 1920s | b. | Economic Growth in the 1920s | d. | Entertainment Forms of the 1920s | | | | |
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APPLYING MAIN IDEAS
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What
area of the United States was called the Dust Bowl in the 1930s? a. | the part of the
Great Plains that suffered wind erosion | b. | the part of the northern Great Plains that suffered wind
erosion | c. | the part of the southern Great Plains that suffered drought and
wind erosion | d. | the part of the eastern Great Plains that suffered drought and
wind erosion | | |
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All
of the following statements about the Dust Bowl are true EXCEPT a. | Each state in
the Dust Bowl suffered from drought and wind erosion. | b. | The Dust Bowl
extended into five states. | c. | The Dust Bowl extended from the northern to the southern
borders of the United States. | d. | Drought and erosion covered most of Nebraska and
Kansas. | | |
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In
which states was the Dust Bowl located? a. | South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, and
Colorado | b. | Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and Texas | c. | Oklahoma,
Kansas, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas | d. | Oklahoma,
Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas | | |
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According to the map, which of the following statements is TRUE? a. | Lands to the
north of the Dust Bowl also suffered from erosion. | b. | Lands to the
north of the Dust Bowl did not suffer drought. | c. | Lands to the
south of the Dust Bowl did not suffer from wind erosion. | d. | Lands to the
north of the Dust Bowl were not suited to farming. | | |
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Essay
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CRITICAL THINKING AND WRITING
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26.
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Identify two causes of the Great Depression. Analyze how each contributed to the
economic collapse of the 1930s.
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