US History Standard 6

Question 1

Which is NOT true about Hoover?

Accepted Answer

He wanted to expand the government's power over the economy

Question 2

The Great Migration of the 1920s involved what group moving from the South to the North & West?

Accepted Answer

African Americans

Question 3

Which of these is a cause of the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

All of These

Question 4

What was the major result of Prohibition in the US during the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

An increase in organized crime

Question 5

Hoovervilles were shanty towns where people who suffered from the Depression.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

The Civilian Conservation Corps

Accepted Answer

All of These

Question 7

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Accepted Answer

Both of These

Question 8

Which group made up the Bonus Army?

Accepted Answer

WWI Veterans

Question 9

The idea of European immigrants being anarchists contributed to which of the following?

Accepted Answer

The Red Scare

Question 10

Which New Deal category focused on creating short term solutions to the GD & creating jobs?

Accepted Answer

Recovery

Question 11

What was the purpose of the protesters involved in the Bonus March?

Accepted Answer

To demand post war payments from World War I

Question 12

FDR's election to the presidency in 1932 demonstrated which of the following?

Accepted Answer

Support for the government solving economic problems

Question 13

The Social Security Act created federal old-age pensions & assistance for orphans/the disabled?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

Which president created the New Deal?

Accepted Answer

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 15

All of the following were criticisms made about FDR's policies to combat Depression except?

Accepted Answer

They reduced the power of the federal government

Question 16

What was the significance of FDR's "fireside chats"?

Accepted Answer

It was the first time a president effectively used the radio

Question 17

Which program created a national minimum wage & abolished child labor?

Accepted Answer

Fair Labor Standards Act

Question 18

The Harlem Renaissance involved black artists & writers who

Accepted Answer

Both of These

Question 19

Herbert Hoover believed that gov't spending was needed to prime the pump of the economy.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 20

Why did the Ku Klux Klan see a rise in membership during the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

There was a new wave of nativism

Question 21

Which political party was FDR?

Accepted Answer

Democrat

Question 22

The New Deal was a series of socialist programs.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 23

Which of the following explains the increased totals for cars made in the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

Better mass production techniques

Question 24

Which New Deal category aimed to regulate the economy & prevent future depressions?

Accepted Answer

Reform

Question 25

The CCC and WPA were New Deal programs developed to address which problem?

Accepted Answer

High unemployment

Question 26

What did the Bonus Army want from the government?

Accepted Answer

The money they were promised in the 1940s

Question 27

Which program created hydroelectric power plants and dams to help rural citizens?

Accepted Answer

Tennessee Valley Authority

Question 28

Overproduction is when ____ of products is greater than _____.

Accepted Answer

Supply : Demand

Question 29

Which led to overproduction?

Accepted Answer

All of These

Question 30

Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Social Secuirty Act, FDIC are all examples of which of the following?

Accepted Answer

Federal Government's need to intervene in an economic crisis

Question 31

The Securities and Exchange Commission

Accepted Answer

All of these are true

Question 32

What form of music is associated with the Harlem Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

Jazz

Question 33

Which of the following was proposed by President Franklin Roosevelt?

Accepted Answer

To increase the number of Supreme Court justices

Question 34

Which is when you pay for something with some of your money and a lot of borrowed money?

Accepted Answer

Margin Buying

Question 35

What was the most important contribution of the radio in the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

It helped create a common culture for the United States

Question 36

Which caused the Dust Bowl?

Accepted Answer

All of These

Question 37

Why did the power of labor unions increase during the New Deal?

Accepted Answer

Federal legislation guaranteed labor's right to organize

Question 38

Black Tuesday was the day that

Accepted Answer

The Stock Market experienced the greatest crash in history

Question 39

The National Labor Relations Act allowed unions to organize & use collective bargaining.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 40

There were flappers, but during the 1920s what role were women expected to play?

Accepted Answer

Wives and mothers

Question 41

The Scopes Trial was a conflict between?

Accepted Answer

Science and religion

Question 42

Which program sent millions of dollars in relief payment & food to the unemployed?

Accepted Answer

The Federal Emergency Relief Administration

Question 43

Why are the 1920s sometimes called the Roaring Twenties?

Accepted Answer

The widespread social & economic changes that took place

Question 44

Which of the following describes the loyalties of African Americans during the Depression?

Accepted Answer

They began too switch from the Republicans to the Democrats

Question 45

Which New Deal category focused on immediate aid to the poor in the forms of food, housing etc?

Accepted Answer

Relief

Question 46

Why did FDR declare a bank holiday and create the FDIC?

Accepted Answer

Both would restore public confidence in banks

Question 47

Which of the following is a correct statement about the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

Installment plans enabled most people to buy home appliances

Question 48

The Sacco & Vanzetti case, the Red Scare, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan all have what in common

Accepted Answer

Xenophobia

Question 49

Which of the following was a cause of the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

Overproduction of consumer goods

Question 50

The National Recovery Administration

Accepted Answer

Both of These

Question 51

The Agricultural Adjustment Act

Accepted Answer

Paid farmers to lower crop production to stop overproduction

Question 52

Installment buying, income inequality, & stock market speculation, all contributed to what?

Accepted Answer

The Great Depression of the 1930s

Question 53

What was the PRIMARY motive behind FDR's proposal to add more judges to the Supreme Court?

Accepted Answer

To protect New Deal programs from unfavorable Court decision

Question 54

Okies were

Accepted Answer

People who were left areas affected by the Dust Bowl

Question 55

US Attorney General, A. Mitchell Palmer's so-called "Palmer Raids" led to?

Accepted Answer

The first Red Scare

Question 56

Critics from the Left thought the New Deal

Accepted Answer

Failed to truly meet the needs of unions and the poor

Question 57

What is a dead zone?

Accepted Answer

Unusable Farm Land

Question 58

Herbert Hoover supported

Accepted Answer

Laissez-faire economics

Question 59

Which Hollywood film contained racist themes and fostered a resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan?

Accepted Answer

Birth of a Nation

Question 60

The radio during the 1920s:

Accepted Answer

Brought music like jazz to a white audience

US History Standard 6

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US History Standard 6

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