American History Final Exam Review

Question 1

During the Depression, most people were able to enjoy which two popular forms of entertainment?

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movies and radio

Question 2

During the Great Depression, when a bank collapsed,

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depositors lost their savings.

Question 3

During the 1930s, dairy farmers in Georgia blocked highways and

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stopped milk trucks, dumping the milk into ditches.

Question 4

In addition to the stock market crash in 1929, a key cause of the Great Depression was

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overconsumption.

Question 5

Hoover wanted state/city govt's rather than fed gov't to give $$ directly to impov. families

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relief.

Question 6

During the Depression many farmers who were already under pressure from debt & falling prices

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and were devastated by drought and the “Dust Bowl.”

Question 7

Before the late 1920s, stock prices

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generally reflected the stocks’ true value.

Question 8

President Roosevelt and his advisers saw the Social Security Act primarily as

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an insurance measure.

Question 9

Perhaps the most important result of President FDR's First New Deal was a noticeable change in

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the spirit of the American people.

Question 10

During the stock market crash of October 1929, prices were driven down by

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companies being forced out of business.

Question 11

Put the items in the chart into a logical sequence.

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2-5-6-4-1-3

Question 12

According to chart, which federal agency provided state/local govt's funds for the unemployed?

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Federal Emergency Relief Agency (FERA)

Question 13

Farmers on the Great Plains began to lose their crops during the Depression because

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a terrible drought dried the soil.

Question 14

President Roosevelt triggered a new economic downturn in 1937 by

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decreasing government spending.

Question 15

In the 1930s, daytime radio dramas such as The Guiding Light were often sponsored by

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makers of laundry soaps.

Question 16

The National Credit Corporation tried to rescue troubled banks by allowing them to

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continue lending money in their communities.

Question 17

The bull market of the 1920s lasted only as long as

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investors continued putting new money into the market.

Question 18

Roosevelt won a landslide reelection victory in 1936, in part because millions of Americans

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owed their jobs & safety of bank accts to the New Deal.

Question 19

To fight the Depression, the first thing that President Roosevelt set out to do was to

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restore confidence in the nation’s banking system.

Question 20

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the uneven distribution of income.

Question 21

President Roosevelt’s “court-packing plan” was a serious mistake because

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it interfered with the Constitution’s separation of powers.

Question 22

The “Dust Bowl” was located in

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the Great Plains.

Question 23

Pres Herbert Hoover hoped that increasing government funding for public works projects would

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provide jobs lost in the private sector.

Question 24

Under the NIRA, business, labor, and the government were allowed to cooperate in setting up

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codes of fair competition.

Question 25

Which New Deal agency insisted contractors couldn't discriminate against African Americans?

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Public Works Administration

Question 26

One cause for the decline in sales of cars in the years leading up to the Depression was

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increased unemployment.

Question 27

What portion of the U.S. workforce was unemployed by 1933?

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roughly 25%

Question 28

Establishing safeguards &relief programs that protected against economic disaster, the New Deal

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established a safety net for Americans.

Question 29

To pay for New Deal programs, President Roosevelt abandoned a balanced budget and began using

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deficit spending.

Question 30

In addition to feeding recruits and instilling them w/ greater self-respect, CCC programs also

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taught more than 40,000 recruits to read and write.

Question 31

Wiped out by the Depression and by drought, many poor families left the Dust Bowl and headed to

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California

Question 32

A long period of rising stock prices is known as a

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bull market.

Question 33

As governor of New York, FDR oversaw the creation of the first state relief agency to aid

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the unemployed.

Question 34

These storms were so bad they would block out the sun.

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black blizzard

Question 35

What does the excerpt suggest about how the Great Depression affected Americans?

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Many Americans struggled in truly desperate circumstances.

American History Final Exam Review

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American History Final Exam Review

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