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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which best explains the reason behind the Crash of '29
Consumers were working too hard in the factories
Americans lost their savings and could not pay their bills
Factories closed when demand for products decreased
Europeans started to import more American wheat
- 2. Multiple Choice
Consumers who borrowed money to buy more stocks were buying on
a whim
guarantees
their feet
margin
- 3. Multiple Choice
These shantytowns popped up in cities during the early part of the Depression
Hoovervilles
Rooseveltiums
Wilsontowns
Rye
- 4. Multiple Choice
Based on our research, which two events cause a severe drop in the price of wheat in the 1930s
A solar eclipse and the election of FDR
The Block Sox scandal and Wembley stadium opened
Farmers started using the One way Plow and demand for wheat went up
Farmers overproduced wheat and demand for wheat dropped
- 5. Multiple Choice
The New Deal promised
Rest and relaxation
Relief, reform, and recovery
A chicken in every pot
peace, justice, and the American way.
- 6. Multiple Choice
Which was NOT a LONG-TERM cause of the Great Depression?
Buying stock on margin
Stock market crash (Black Tuesday)
too much production and consumer spending
Laisezz-faire economic policies
- 7. Multiple Choice
What effect did the Dust Bowl storms have on the Great Depression?
Many farmers were forced to leave the Great Plains.
Unemployment decreased gradually.
Many homes along the Mississippi River were flooded.
Hoover was re-elected as president.
- 8. Multiple Choice
Who was president at the time of the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
Abraham Lincoln
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
- 9. Multiple Choice
After the Stock Market Crash, many people lost their life savings because _______________.
banks closed
banks gave away their money
they couldn't remember where they put it
someone stole it
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which of the following was NOT an effect of the Great Depression?
homelessness
bank failures
high tariffs
struggling farmers
- 11. Multiple Choice
11. What natural disaster of the 1930s added insult to injury?
Flooding along the Mississippi River
The Dust Bowl
Tornadoes called the Helen Hunt Twisters
Hurricanes along the Gulf Coast
- 12. Multiple Choice
What tool - passed during the Hoover Administration - designed to protect American manufacturers actually ended up creating a worldwide depression?
Reconstruction Finance Committee
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
New Deal
Second New Deal
- 13. Multiple Choice
The Bonus Army incident in 1932 best illustrates the idea that
F.D.R.'s relief programs were unsuccessful.
many felt that Herbert Hoover was not handling the Depression well.
protests by veterans during the Depression were effective.
the U.S. Army had increased in size and power during the Depression.
- 14. Multiple Choice
The “Bonus Army” marched on Washington, D.C., to pressure Congress to
Pay World War I veterans their army pensions early
Pass the Norris–La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act to protect organized labor
Dole out federal aid to the homeless and depressed living in “Hoovervilles”
Help destitute farmers survive in the Dust Bowl region
- 15. Multiple Choice
How did Herbert Hoover believe that the economy could be revived?
Through government intervention to directly assist the poor
By supporting industry in the hopes that federal dollars at the top would “trickle down” to the poorest Americans
By forcing Britain and France to repay their war debts
By shifting the base of the economy away from heavy industry toward the production of consumer goods
- 16. Multiple Choice
Franklin Delano Roosevelt won a landslide victory in 1932 because Americans
Were dissatisfied with Hoover’s “ride-it-out” policy
Distrusted Hoover after the Bonus Army march
Wanted more direct federal assistance
All of the above
- 17. Multiple Choice
The Twenty-First Amendment
Gave women the right to vote
Allowed Americans to elect U.S. senators directly
Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol
Ended Prohibition
- 18. Multiple Choice
Economist John Maynard Keynes believed that depressed economies could be jump-started by
Deficit spending
Printing more paper money
Taking the nation off the gold standard
Protecting organized labor
- 19. Multiple Choice
Most New Deal legislation in the First Hundred Days was passed to
Provide immediate relief
Put the economy on the road to long-term recovery
Initiate reforms to prevent another depression
All of the above
- 20. Multiple Choice
How did the New Deal assist farmers?
By subsidizing them to cut back production
By subsiding them to plant soil-enriching crops
By artificially inflating agricultural prices
All of the above
- 21. Multiple Choice
Congress passed or created all of the following in 1933 as part of the First New Deal except
The Public Works Administration (PWA)
The Social Security Act
The Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
The Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC)
- 22. Multiple Choice
Buying stocks on the chance of a quick profit without considering risks is known as
Buying on margin
Profit taking
Living on credit
Speculation
- 23. Multiple Choice
Historian Arthur Schelsinger said that it “left its monuments in the preservation and purification of the land, the
water, the forest, the young men of America.” What New Deal program was he describing?
Civilian Conservation Corps
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Works Progress Administration
Tennessee Valley Authority
- 24. Multiple Choice
Which of the following of Roosevelt’s ideas failed to become a law?
The creation of a federal supported pension program
Federally supported loans for housing
The reorganization of the Supreme Court
The establishment of regional planning authorities
- 25. Multiple Choice
What did Roosevelt’s “fireside chats” do?
Restored confidence in the banking system
Demonstrated the new power of radio
Boosted American’s confidence in the president
All of the above
- 26. Multiple Choice
Hoover's measures to deal with the Depression included support for four of the following. Which is the exception?
a large-scale federal program of direct relief to the unemployed
a system of government home-loan banks to assist mortgage holders
the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to make loans to businesses
the Hawley-Smoot Tariff to protect agriculture from foreign competition
the Agricultural Marketing Act which helped to maintain farm prices
- 27. Multiple Choice
Four of the following statements correctly describe conditions in the stock market during the year and a half preceding the Great Crash of 1929. Which is the exception?
There was a widespread speculative fever.
The average price of most stock increased dramatically.
The daily volume of stock traded increased dramatically.
Most brokers required cash payment in full for stock purchases.
Credit was easily obtained to those buying stock.
- 28. Multiple Choice
DR's first decisive action during the 100 Days was
ending Prohibition
cooling off the banks by declaring a national bank holiday
packing the Supreme Court
taking the nation off the gold standard
- 29. Multiple Choice
Which of the following did not offer radical criticism of Roosevelt and FDR programs?
Huey Long
Dr. Francis Townsend
Father Charles Coughlin
Harry Hopkins
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