US History Studies
Rosen
Unit Four: The Roaring 1920’s to the Great Depression
QUIZ QUESTIONS
 What was Calvin Coolidge's philosophy of government?
 How was this philosophy expressed during his administration?
 How did the automobile industry shape American life in the 1920s?
 To what extent did the Eighteenth Amendment live up to its supporters'
claims that prohibition would eliminate crime and lift the nation's
morality?
 How did the 1925 Scopes trial symbolize the divisions between the city
and the country?
 What weaknesses existed in the American economy of the 1920s?
 How did President Hoover respond to the stock market crash of 1929
and the subsequent depression?
 What was the impact of his approach?
 How did Communists and socialists react to the Great Depression?
 What did this do to their popularity among Americans?