Great Depression and the New Deal

Question 1

Many people lost their money when the stock market crashed in 1929

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

Homeless people created communities of shacks called

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Hoovervilles

Question 3

Had the idea that Buisness, not government would fix the economy

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Hoover

Question 4

The Wagner Act...

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dealt with unfair labor practices

Question 5

The 1930s drought in the Western US was called what?

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Dust Bowl

Question 6

Stock profits decrease when a company is doing well

Accepted Answer

False

Question 7

African Americans as well as women were usually excluded from aid programs because

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they worked in agriculture, they were domestic workers

Question 8

FDR communicated with US citizens through

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Fireside Chats

Question 9

Buying on margin means

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Using credit

Question 10

The Supreme Court didn't like some items of the first new deal because

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Too much legislative power to the president

Question 11

To regulate the stock market, Congress made

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Securities and Exchange Commission

Question 12

Eleanor Roosevelt made the role of First Lady less political and more about looks

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False

Question 13

Souther Congressmen wanted Social Security to cover agriculture workers.

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False

Question 14

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp was created to insure peoples bank accounts.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

After the Great Depression people started moving from the___ to the ___.

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city, country

Question 16

African Americans had more jobs than all of the other groups during the Great Depression

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False

Question 17

Farmers had this problem which made prices too low

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surplus, over production

Question 18

Which of the following is NOT a cause of the Great Depression

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Under production of crops

Question 19

Katharine Burton said

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education seems uneeded during the Great Depression

Question 20

When a bank collapsed after the Stock Market crash...

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depositers lost their money

Question 21

The Agricultural Adjustment act only helped

Accepted Answer

land owning farmers

Questions 21