US Final Exam Fall 22 Part 3

Question 1

Where did most Dust Bowl migrants go?

Accepted Answer

California

Question 2

Regulate the stock market and enforce laws.

Accepted Answer

SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission)

Question 3

The demand and price of crops during the late 1920s was...

Accepted Answer

Decreasing

Question 4

Employed 8 million people with jobs in everything from construction to art

Accepted Answer

WPA - Works Progress Administration

Question 5

Where did the Dust Bowl happen?

Accepted Answer

Great Plains

Question 6

The Gold Standard meant we needed more what to increase the money supply?

Accepted Answer

gold

Question 7

Hoover mishandled/mistreated ____ prompitng outrage from Americans.

Accepted Answer

The Bonus Army

Question 8

The Bonus Expeditionary Force marched on Washington to demand what?

Accepted Answer

immediate payment of bonus promised to vets

Question 9

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was established to...

Accepted Answer

Make loans to businesses/banks

Question 10

Which thing did President Hoover NOT try to help solve the Depression?

Accepted Answer

Providing direct relief to people

Question 11

Protected the price of crops; paid farmers not to grow

Accepted Answer

AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act)

Question 12

What president was blamed for the Depression?

Accepted Answer

Hoover

Question 13

Herber Hoover was initially like because of his succes in what position?

Accepted Answer

Both Red and Yellow

Question 14

How did Hoover handle the Bonus Army?

Accepted Answer

US military removed them from the capital

Question 15

Target 18-24 year olds for jobs that include park restoration, tree planting, etc

Accepted Answer

CCC - Civilian Conservation Corps

Question 16

Buying stock "on margin" meant...

Accepted Answer

making only a small down payment

Question 17

The Supreme Court found NIRA and AAA to be _____.

Accepted Answer

Unconstitutional

Question 18

Rebuilding our military provided nearly endless jobs ending the Depression in...

Accepted Answer

the late 1930s

Question 19

Goal of the New Deal which regulated banks and businesses to prevent future crash.

Accepted Answer

Reform

Question 20

The Social Security Act (1935) provides money for...

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 21

Authorized President to regulate prices and wages

Accepted Answer

NIRA - National Industrial Recovery Act

Question 22

What law limited the availability of cheap foreign goods?

Accepted Answer

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

Question 23

Which President helped Congress repeal Prohibition?

Accepted Answer

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 24

The Glass-Steagall Act established FDIC which...

Accepted Answer

insures bank accounts

Question 25

FDR&#x27;s popular and frequent radio broadcasts to the American people.

Accepted Answer

Fireside Chats

Question 26

The economy crashed on Black Tuesday in October of....?

Accepted Answer

1929

Question 27

Built dams and flood controls; brought electricity to seven states

Accepted Answer

TVA - Tennessee Valley Authority

Question 28

Author who wrote Of Mice and Men.

Accepted Answer

John Steinbeck

Question 29

Hoover ____ taxes in 1932 to provid for the RFC.

Accepted Answer

Raised

Question 30

This failed plan would have given FDR the ability to appoint more Supreme Court justices.

Accepted Answer

Court Packing Plan

Question 31

FDR&#x27;s group of advisers were known as:

Accepted Answer

The Brain Trust

Question 32

Why did banks lose money and fail in the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

Speculating on stocks

Question 33

Which of the following was the biggest factor in causing the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

Overuse of credit

Question 34

An unintended success of the New Deal was granting tribal autonomy to...

Accepted Answer

Native Americans

US Final Exam Fall 22 Part 3

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US Final Exam Fall 22 Part 3

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