US Ch. 14-15 Test Review

Question 1

This measures the stock market's health as a barometer

Accepted Answer

Dow Jones Industrial Average

Question 2

This reduced the flow of goods into the US and prevented the buying of American exports?

Accepted Answer

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

Question 3

The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act led to

Accepted Answer

a dramatic drop in world trade

Question 4

This is an arrangement in which consumers agree to buy now and pay later

Accepted Answer

Credit

Question 5

What is the term for borrowing money to help pay for a stock?

Accepted Answer

buying on margin

Question 6

Created the famous broadcast War of the Worlds

Accepted Answer

Orson Welles

Question 7

By decreasing farm surpluses, New Deal policies helped do what?

Accepted Answer

raise the price of farm goods

Question 8

What provided old age insurance, aid to families, and unemployment?

Accepted Answer

Social Security Act

Question 9

Which of the following protected the right of workers to join unions

Accepted Answer

Wagner Act

Question 10

What was the name given to poor drifters who rode the rails as they searched for work?

Accepted Answer

hoboes

Question 11

This required corporations to provide complete, truthful information on stock offerings

Accepted Answer

Federal Securities Act

Question 12

What was directly responsible for creating new jobs and putting people to work?

Accepted Answer

Works Progress Administration

Question 13

This set a national minimum hourly wage and prohibited factory labor for children

Accepted Answer

Fair Labor Standards Act

Question 14

Causes of the farming crisis of the 1920s included that

Accepted Answer

the demand for crops fell after WWI

Question 15

Who painted American Gothic?

Accepted Answer

Grant Wood

Question 16

Who ran during the election of 1932?

Accepted Answer

Hoover and Roosevelt

Question 17

Who lost the election of 1928?

Accepted Answer

Alfred E. Smith

Question 18

Main objective of the Agricultural Adjustment Act?

Accepted Answer

raise prices of farm products

Question 19

This is the period form 1929 to 1940 in which the economy plummeted

Accepted Answer

The Great Depression

Question 20

Who won the election of 1928?

Accepted Answer

Herbert Hoover

Question 21

Buying stocks on the chance of quick profit without considering risks is

Accepted Answer

speculation

Question 22

What novel talks about the lives of Oklahomans fleeing the Dust Bowl?

Accepted Answer

The Grapes of Wrath

Question 23

Which of the following increased in the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

farmer's debt

Question 24

Considered one of the most popular movies of all time that depicts life in the south

Accepted Answer

Gone With the Wind

Question 25

What was one long-term effect of the Depression that many people developed?

Accepted Answer

saving and thrifitness

Question 26

Date of Black Tuesday

Accepted Answer

stock market crash of October 29, 1929

Question 27

Who proposed Share Our Wealth and opposed Roosevelt's New Deal?

Accepted Answer

Huey Long

Question 28

What was Eleanor Roosevelt's role in the Roosevelt administration?

Accepted Answer

Advisor on domestic policy

Question 29

This rebuilt dams and provided hydroelectric power

Accepted Answer

Tennessee Valley Authority

Question 30

Which of the following were causes of the Dust Bowl?

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 31

The Glass Steagall Banking Act created what?

Accepted Answer

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Question 32

In calling shantytowns "Hoovervilles" people were conveying what?

Accepted Answer

mock disgust with Hoover

Question 33

__________ reached a new high during Roosevelt's term as president.

Accepted Answer

National debt

Question 34

The Federal Emergency Relief Administration helped whom?

Accepted Answer

the unemployed, aged, and ill

Question 35

Due to psychological stress of the Depression, there was a rise in what?

Accepted Answer

people who committed suicide

Question 36

What was the aim of the Federal Home Loan Bank Act?

Accepted Answer

prevent farmers and homeowners from losing property

Question 37

Which of the following were causes of the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 38

Herbert Hoover's approach to the Depression was based on a belief in

Accepted Answer

rugged individualism

Question 39

First female cabinet member?

Accepted Answer

Frances Perkins

Question 40

This was created to monitor and enforce laws regarding the stock market.

Accepted Answer

Securities and Exchange Commission

Question 41

Government system for giving payments or food to the poor?

Accepted Answer

direct relief

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US Ch. 14-15 Test Review

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