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The 1920s and 1930s Test

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5 Written Questions

5 Matching Questions

  1. Describe the Scopes Monkey Trial
  2. What was FDR's court packing scheme?
  3. Who won the Election of 1932?
  4. What 1935 program gave umeployment contensation for children?
  5. Significance of the 100 Days?
  1. a The CCC
  2. b First part of FDR's New Deal, they were 100 days of relief acts such as the Bank Holiday
  3. c Teacher was teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution in schools in Tennessee, but the board of education challenged him because that's not what the Bible says happened. The teacher lost his case but people continued to practice it anyway
  4. d FDR
  5. e He wanted to remove the Supreme Court as an obstacle for the New Deal, as it had deemed the AAA and the NRA unconstitutional. He proposed a judicial-reorganization bill in 1937 where the president could appoint to the Supreme Court an additional justice for each current justice who was older than 70.5 years. With that rule, he would have been able to add six judges who could help vouch for his side.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. fireside chats; pep talks for Americans
  2. Severe drought in the Great Plains that ruined crops in the 1930s. Farms turned to dust
  3. "safe for democracy"
  4. Haven they escaped to from the South in the Great Migration where they had an opportunity to share their culture through the arts; music, literature, visual art
  5. - TVA hired thousands to work on construction in the Tennessee Valley and sold electricity to residents at rates much lower than what was previously
    - Tennessee Valley Authority

5 True/False Questions

  1. What got the US involved in WWI?Alliance of Britain, France, Russia (though Russia left) against the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy

    supplemented with further support from nations such as Canada, United States, Brazil, Portugal, Japan

          

  2. The hate group reincarnated in the 20s was the ____Ku Klux Klan

          

  3. Did the U.S. factories employ a lot of people in preperation for WWI?- TVA hired thousands to work on construction in the Tennessee Valley and sold electricity to residents at rates much lower than what was previously
    - Tennessee Valley Authority

          

  4. _____ was when we were scared of communism. Happened twice, once in WWI and again in the 1950sThe Red Scare

          

  5. Were Labor Unions allowed during the Great Depression Era?Henry Lodge; led the Senate against the treaty because he knew it would get the US involved in the League of Nations and would then become involved in European Affairs