Chapter 9 Test

Question 1

Prohibition became law with the ___________ Amendment

Answer 1

Eighteenth Amendment

Question 2

Many Americans in the 1920s were confused if this was true or not

Answer 2

The Bible

Question 3

A person who is not serving in the military

Answer 3

civilian

Question 4

Two doctors discovered that this could treat diabetes

Answer 4

insulin

Question 5

The Nobel Price for Physics was won by this man

Answer 5

Albert Einstein

Question 6

Person who owns stock in a company

Answer 6

stockholder

Question 7

Money that banks pay their depositors

Answer 7

interest

Question 8

Money put in a bank to be kept safe

Answer 8

deposit

Question 9

Criminals working together to break the law

Answer 9

organized crime

Question 10

Means “right to vote”

Answer 10

suffrage

Question 11

Person who believes there should be no government

Answer 11

anarchist

Question 12

A hard time during America’s history

Answer 12

Great Depression

Question 13

Many people called the years between 1920 and 1929

Answer 13

Roaring Twenties

Question 14

The nickname for October 29, 1929 when the stock market crashed

Answer 14

Black Tuesday

Question 15

The man who left baseball to become a preacher

Answer 15

Billy Sunday

Question 16

The most famous baseball star in the 1920s

Answer 16

Babe Ruth

Question 17

The term used for rising stock prices

Answer 17

bull market

Question 18

The most respected Fundamentalist teacher during the 1920s

Answer 18

J. Gresham Machen

Question 19

First person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean

Answer 19

Charles Lindbergh

Question 20

Throat infection that killed many people every year

Answer 20

diphtheria

Question 21

John Scopes was found guilty of this

Answer 21

teaching evolution

Question 22

Essay

Explain why the stock market crashed

Answer 22

People stopped buying as much. They began selling stocks for less and bankers could not bring the stock prices back up