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US History B Great Depression/New Deal Test
US History B Great Depression/New Deal Test
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1
What did the Tennessee Valley Authority do?
Created grants for states and relief agencies to help unemployed
Provided jobs for young men in national parks
Provided jobs building dams to create hydroelectricity
Created a bank holiday
2
What was an achievement of Hoover during his first year as President?
Funded relief programs to create jobs
Regulated business practices that caused the Great Depression
Targeted organized crime
Established programs supporting arts and literature
3
What was the main environmental goal of the Civilian Conservation Corps and Works Progress Administration?
Expand the number of national parks
Protect natural resources to be used efficiently
Prevent future dust storms that killed crops
Remove invasive insects that killed trees
4
What members of society did Eleanor Roosevelt advocate for?
Rural Poor
Women
Small Business Owners
African Americans
5
Which factors led to the stock market collapse on Black Tuesday?
Underproduction
Dust Bowl
Bank runs
Lack of government regulation
6
What was a criticism of the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
Farmers were growing too many crops
Government was forcing land owners to hire sharecroppers
Government was destroying food
Farmers were receiving more money than other jobs
7
Most Americans believed Herbert Hoover had prevented poverty and worked to end the economic crisis.
True
False
8
Which groups in society were often ignored by New Deal programs?
Farmers
War Veterans
African Americans
Women
9
What was the core idea of Roosevelt's New Deal?
Government should not fund private charities for aid
Government should regulate the banking industry
Government should protect the well-being of citizens
Government should encourage union growth
10
Who was the President when the Great Depression began?
Herbert Hoover
Calvin Coolidge
Harry Truman
Franklin D. Roosevelt
11
How did photojournalists like Dorothea Lange influence art during the Great Depression?
Photos criticized the New Deal
Showed dangerous working conditions in factories
Detailed the struggles of farmers and migrants
Helped create peace with foreign countries
12
What was the effect of tariffs on imported goods after the stock market crash?
Created an escalating trade war
Led to overproduction of food
Caused risky investment in the market
Allowed American businesses to recover
13
What is an example of relief programs passed during the Hoover presidency?
Creation of social security
Funding Red Cross and Salvation Army
Jobs program to improve national parks
Construction jobs programs
14
The economic disaster of the Great Depression was ended by the New Deal and it's programs.
True
False
15
Who took photos of the Dust Bowl to show the effect of dust storms?
Dorothea Lange
Mary McLeod Bethune
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Marian Anderson
16
Which of the following best summarizes the impact of the Great Depression on African Americans?
Moved to southern cities to work in factories
Experienced increased unemployment and discimination
Kept their jobs as sharecroppers
Bought land and invested in stock market
17
What belief led Hoover to ask leading industrialists to maintain wages following Black Tuesday?
Believed surplus of goods could be sold to fix economy
Believed crash was not part of a larger downturn
Believed trade would save the banks
Believed industrialists would close their factories
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Who was one of the greatest critics of Roosevelt's New Deal?
John Maynard Keynes
Eleanor Roosevelt
Dorothea Lange
Huey Long
19
Which program created jobs for young men in national parks?
Emergency Banking Act
Tennessee Valley Authority
Civilian Conservation Corps
Federal Emergency Relief Act
20
Why did many farmers in the Great Plains choose to mortgage their farms prior to the Great Depression?
Adopted organic practices to increase crop yields
Could access credit to expand their farms and improve equipment
Price of wheat began to rise after WWI
Prosperity during the war due to excellent growing conditions
21
What was Hoover's belief in "Rugged Individualism?"
Americans should work harder
Banks should stop risky investments
Tariffs should be created to improve American business
Government should intervene in the economy
22
During the Great Depression, who was most responsible for supplying free bread and soup?
Private agencies
Federal government
State governments
State and federal governments
23
Why were many farms foreclosed during the mid-1920s?
Farmers planted cotton instead of corn
Farmers planted too many crops and were not able to harvest
Farmers went off to war and left their fields
Farmers invested in land and equipment during WW1
24
Roosevelt won the 1932 election against Hoover by a narrow margin.
False
True
25
What was an accomplishment of the Works Progress Administration?
Established social security to support elderly and unemployed
Suspended antitrust laws
Created jobs for artists, musicians, and writers
Built dams and planted trees in Tennessee