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1930s: The Great Depression
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What kinds of jobs did most "Okies" find after moving to California?
Factory/Industrial Work
Migrant farming
Domestic work in people's homes
Better Farms
2
In order to protect loans brokers use a
Margarine Call
Bank Call
Margin Call
Credit Call
3
What was the Smoot Hawley tariff supposed to do?
Lower the price of Foreign goods
Hurt American Business
Increase sales for American goods
Make quality of American goods go up
4
Quickly! Who is this man?
Alfred E. Smith
Ronald Reagan
Franklin Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
5
Hydroelectricity is produced by __________________?
Wind
Solar
Coal
Water
6
What does the FDIC stand for?
Fun Day In China
Free Dollar Internal Commission
Free Democracy Initiative Committee
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
7
What does the TVA stand for?
Tennessee Valley Authority
Tennesee Valley Authority
Tenessee Valley Authority
Tennessee Valey Authority
8
Social Security provided a ________________ for Americans for when they retired.
Debt
Pension
Business
Farm
9
A period of rising stock prices
Overproduction Market
Stock Market
Box Market
Bull Market
10
What nickname was given to the day the stock market crashed?
Black Tuesday
Black Friday
Ticked off Tuesday
Total wipeout Thursday
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What name was given to Roosevelt's plan to help the American people?
New Deal
Equal For All
New Deall
Square Deal
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Bonus: Highest point in PA
Mt. Cumberland
Mt. Gretna
Mt. Davis
Mt. Surabachi
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Argument that the government should spend heavily during a recession
Fundamentalism
Keynesianism
McCarthyism
Isolationism
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Each of these was a cause of the Great Depression except
Overproduction
Buying on credit
Even Distribution of wealth
Tarrifs
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What happened to unemployment after the New Deal was implemented?
Remained pretty much the same
Went up
Almost completely disappeared
New deal wasn't trying to stop unemployment
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Bonus: Who was not one of FDR's cousins?
Theodore Roosevelt
Warren Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Grace Roosevelt
17
WWI Veterans marched to Washington D.C.
Free Army
Peace Crops
United Corps
Bonus Army
18
Nickname for shantytowns during the 1930s
Hoovervilles
Hardingvillies
Roosevilles
Coolkidgevilles
19
Besides radio, what was the other popular forms of entertainment during the 1920s
Sailing
Movies
Television
Traveling
20
Which of the following was one of Roosevelt's 3 R's?
Retreat
Reform
Results
Reduce
21
What job did people like Dorthea Lange have during the Dust Bowl/Depression?
Artists
Photographer
Authors
Journalist
22
Elected governor four times and ran for president
Alfred Smith
Arnold Schwarzenegger
John Steinbeck
Alex Smith
23
What factor contributed most to the stock market crash?
No one would invest
Hoover
Debt/Credit
Too many people with too much money
24
Buying something in the hope of a quick windfall
Spendification
Speculation
Specification
Stock
25
Which of the following was a result on the families of the Great Depression?
Hoover was assassinated
Births increased
Divorces decreased
Marriages increased
26
What media outlet was considered "King" in the 1930s?
Newspaper
Magazine
TV
Radio
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Closing banks before bank runs
Deficit Spending
Emergency Relief
Bank Holidays
Security Exchange
28
What does the SSA stand for
Special Services Administration
Standard Stability Administration
Social Security Administration
Solar Security Administration
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Which was not introduced during 1930s
Snow White
King Kong
Grapes of Wrath
Mickey Mouse
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What does the CCC stand for?
Civilian Conversation Corps
Civilian Conservation Core
Civillian Conservation Corps
Civilian Conservation Corps
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What does the FCC stand for?
Free Charter Cooperation
Funding Communicative Cooperation
Fracking and Construction Corperation
Federal Communications Commission
32
Congress passing fifteen major acts during the economic crisis
Thousand Days
Hundred Days
Two-Hundred Days
Two-Thousand Days
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What was the nickname for Roosevelt's cabinet?
Ohio Gang
Brain Trust
Cranium Crew
Rough Riders
34
What is the main service provided by this organization?
Farm aid
Clothing
Electricity
Water
35
What does FERA stand for?
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Federal Equality Reform Administration
Federal Exchange and Recovery Authority
Federal Education and Religious Authority
36
Bonus: Pennsylvania is _____________ square miles
46,058
78,712
61,309
32,091
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What does SEC stand for?
Security and Expansion Commission
Security and Exchange Committee
Security and Exchange Commission
Standard and Exchange Commission
38
Which of the following factors helped lead to the Dust Bowl?
Flooding
Buffalo being allowed to roam freely
Too few farmers
Severe Drought
39
What is the name for the share of ownership of a company?
Bond
Hedge fund
Mutual Fund
Stock
40
What is minimum wage?
A suggestion of how much people should be paid
The most you can be paid
lowest wage permitted by law
wage that every worker starts earning
41
The CCC was an organization during the Depression that would be involved in what type of jobs?
Paving new roads
Building Skyscrapers
Planting Trees
Building Schools
42
Which of the following was a nickname for the large dust storms that plagued the Great Plains?
Stingers
Black blizzards
Lung destroyers
Sand Storms
43
What does the NLRB stand for?
National Liberation and Revolution Board
Nautical Longitude Recovery Backing
National Labor Relations Board
Natural Learning and Reserve Business
44
I pushed for monthly payments for the elderly
Sammy Security
Charles Coughlin
Huey Long
Francis Townsend
45
What radio shows were popular with women in the thirties?
Nancy Drew
Wonder woman
Soap Operas
Superman
46
Which is not true about the Great Depression?
Entertainment distracts people from their daily lives
Government provides lots of indirect help
Republicans lose support
Hunger Marches
47
What was one of the main jobs the WPA worked on during the Depression?
Clear out Hoovervilles
Sewing clothes
building roads
Stopping Dust from blowing
48
True or False: Many people withdrawing their funds at once is called a bank run
False
True
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Franklin Roosevelt battled
Polio
Small Pox
Diabetes
Measles
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Head of the WPA
Franklin Roosevelt
Frances Perkins
Harold Ickes
Harry Hopkins
