Unit 4A: Test Answers

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What did the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and the Public Works Administration (PWA) have in common?

They both focused on reforestation and land restoration.

They were both government-run construction programs.

They both provided government support for labor unions.

They were created to provide electricity in rural areas.

The Harlem Renaissance celebrated the culture and artistic achievements of which group?

African Americans

Asian Americans

Jewish Americans

Italian Americans

What new form of entertainment helped to popularize ragtime and jazz in the early 1900s?

television

“talkies”

radio

opera

A common problem described in popular music of the 1930s was

not having money and standing in bread lines.

needing ten more cents to buy something.

losing a job and trying to find a new one.

having to regularly borrow money from friends.

How did propaganda encourage more Americans to support Prohibition in the early 1900s?

The Anti-Saloon League lobbied Congress to encourage its representatives to support Prohibition.

Prohibition organizations spread false rumors that drinking small amounts of alcohol could be poisonous.

The Anti-Saloon League spread the idea that drinking beer produced in Germany was treasonous.

Prohibition organizations wrote articles about families destroyed by the evils of alcoholism.

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