FDR's biggest mistake as president was when

attempted to pack the Supreme Court

During the depression, many African Americans _______.

saw conditions worsen as jobs discriminated them

During the depression, working women were what?

Accused of taking jobs away from men

planting trees, help prevent soil erosion, and flood control

One of the men electrocuted for killing a paymaster? (Two choices)

Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Nicola Sacco

What is another reason the economy was not as strong as it seemed in the 1920s?

Americans relied on credit too much

What was Hoover's Policy at the Beginning of the Great Depression?

Voluntary Cooperation by Businesses

The WPA addressed what?

Unemployment and poverty by creating jobs

What is stock speculation?

Making high-risk investments to get rich quick

Why did banks close after the Stock Market Crash?

Couldn't return the depositors money

During the 1920s, what was the governments policy towards business

Laissez faire, no taxing or regulation

Which of the following represents the cooperative spirit of the depression?

Forming tenants to apples rent increases & penny auctions

The stock market crash of 1929 affected whom?

Millions of Americans and people around the globe

How did Eleanor Roosevelt help the president and country?

reporting on conditions in the country

What was the big issue between Hoover and FDR for the 1932 election?

Whether or not to use Federal $ to help people's issues

Why were farmers hurting after WWI?

They're growing excess crops, led to declining crop prices

Many farms were auctioned off when _______.

Farmers could not pay their mortgages

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1
Fear of communism spreading in the 1920s was called
Great Fear
Communist Manifesto
Red Scare
none of the above
2
FDR's biggest mistake as president was when
attempted to pack the Supreme Court
passed Social Security Act
funded the arts
passed the Wagner Act
3
During the depression, many African Americans _______.
Demanded their civil rights, such as access to education
Took jobs away from white laborers
saw conditions worsen as jobs discriminated them
Return from northern cities to the south
4
What was paying for an expensive item over many months?
Installment buying
Real wages
Speculation
Buy on margin
5
This was one of the industries that did not suffer during the Great Depression
Entertainment
Clothing
Automobile
Aviation
6
During the depression, working women were what?
Ashamed of working
Hired to plant "relief gardens"
Accused of taking jobs away from men
Respected for becoming family providers
7
What was the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act?
Lowered taxes on domestic goods
Raised taxes on foreign goods
Raised taxes on domestic goods
Lowered taxes on foreign goods
8
Illegal organization that made huge profits bootlegging alcohol in the era?
Mob or mafia
NSA
KKK
FBI
9
CCC addressed what?
pensions for retired workers
bank closures
planting trees, help prevent soil erosion, and flood control
10
Where most of people got their news and entertainment in the era?
Television
Social Media
Internet
Radio
11
Popular pilot who crossed the Atlantic solo firstC
Orville Wright
Chuck Yeager
Charles Lindbergh
Eddie Rickenbauer
12
This ended the Great Depression
World War I
World War II
Cold War
Vietnam War
13
He was the first to fly nonstop across the Atlantic?
Charles Lindbergh
Ernest Hemingway
Langston Huges
F. Scott Fitzgerald
14
Achievement by African Americans in the arts in the era?
Great Migration
Harlem Renaissance
Black Power
Second Great Migration
15
Term for bold, young women in the decade who wore shorter dresses and hair?
Hippie
Flapper
Beatnik
Hipster
16
Critic of FDR who promoted the "Share our wealth" program
Alfred E. Smith
John Maynard Keynes
Huey Long
Father Coughlin
17
Famous gangster who made the equivalent of 1 billion dollars during prohibition?
Al Capone
John Gotti
Whitey Bulger
Tony Sorprano
18
Name of the book written by F. Scott Fitzgerald about the American Dream and its problems.
America
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Sun Also Rises
The Great Gatsby
19
John Scopes was put on trial and found guilty for teaching what?
Theory of Relativity
String Theory
The Theory of Evolution
Plate Tectonics
20
One of the men electrocuted for killing a paymaster? (Two choices)
Charles Lindbergh
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
John Coffee
Nicola Sacco
21
1930 import tax that hurt European and U.S. economies
Glass-Steagall Act
16th Amendment
Hawley Smoot Tariff
Prohibition
22
What is another reason the economy was not as strong as it seemed in the 1920s?
Americans were spending too much money
Americans relied too much on the economy
Americans relied on "handouts" too much
Americans relied on credit too much
23
One of the overall causes of the Great Depression is....
Lack of Government regulation
Too much Government regulation
24
What was Hoover's Policy at the Beginning of the Great Depression?
"Pull themselves up by their boot straps."
Voluntary Cooperation by Businesses
The New Deal
Spend Federal Funds
25
Henry Ford was able to make the Model T more affordable with the?
Assembly line
Tesla motors
Advertising
Radio
26
Famous African American author who wrote, "Theme from English B?"
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Duke Ellington
Countee Cullen
27
The WPA addressed what?
Unemployment and poverty by creating jobs
Bank Runs
Tree planting crisis
Retired workers
28
FDR promised what for the American people?
An Old Deal
A New Deal
A Fabulous Deal
A Great Depression
29
Economist who believed that massive government spending programs could revive a failing economy
Herbert Hoover
Henry Wallace
John Maynard Keynes
Milton Friedman
30
What was one of the reasons for the weakening of the economy in the late 1920s?
gender pay gap
the Gap, gap
the gap between rich and poor
the farming price gap
31
Racist organization that grew in number in the era, did not like blacks, catholics, irish etc?
FBI
Mob or Mafia
KKK
Illuminati
32
What were the shanty towns built by the homeless during the Great Depression called?
Hartmann Town
New Orleans
Hooverville
Stalingrad
33
What is stock speculation?
Making low-risk investments to get rich lowly
Making high-risk investments with their own money
Making high-risk investments to get rich quick
Making medium-risk investments in the stock market
34
Why did banks close after the Stock Market Crash?
Could only settle certain accounts for depositors
Could only return a portion of the depositors money
Couldn't return the depositors money
Could only return the depositors life savings
35
Wage cuts and unemployment eventually affected whom?
Factory workers only
Mostly farmers
Mainly women
All levels of society
36
This helped farmers
establishing the AAA
abolishing minimum wage
stabilizing industrial prices
allowing Mexican labor
37
What was the large environmental crisis that affected the U.S. during the Great Depression?
The Great Wildfire
The Dust Bowl
The Great Flood
The Great Depression
38
During the 1920s, what was the governments policy towards business
To boost farm prices
High taxes and regulation
Laissez faire, no taxing or regulation
Welfare CAPITALISM
39
Roosevelt easily won the 1932 presidential election by promising what?
Repeal of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff
A New Deal for Americans
Lower taxes
White House conference on business
40
Which of the following represents the cooperative spirit of the depression?
Banks auctioning off foreclosed homes at high prices
Gangsters prospering from bootlegging
Ratification of the 21st ammendment
Forming tenants to apples rent increases & penny auctions
41
The stock market crash of 1929 affected whom?
Wealthy industrialists almost exclusively
Mainly stockbrokers and bankers
Millions of Americans and people around the globe
Only those who had invested heavily in stocks
42
Term for the decade of the 1920s?
Jazz Age
Roaring Twenties
Beat Generations
Lost Generation
43
Amendment that gave women the right to vote?
18
20
21
19
44
Term for the era in which alcohol was banned?
Roaring Twenties
Harlem Renaissance
Jazz Age
Prohibition
45
How did Eleanor Roosevelt help the president and country?
assisting Mary McLeod Bethune
designing New Deal Policies
reporting on conditions in the country
running New Deal agencies
46
Ordered the military to remove Bonus Army marchers from Washington D.C.
Calvin Coolidge
Warren G. Harding
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
47
What is the actual purchasing power?
Welfare CAPITALISM
speculation
Buy on margin
Real wages
48
In the fall of 1920, a wave of panic selling gripped the stock market as a result of what?
Stockholders hoarding stocks
A sudden fall in stock prices
Government limits on speculation
Business failures
49
What was the big issue between Hoover and FDR for the 1932 election?
Whether or not to use Federal $ to help people's issues
Whether or not to give $ to Europe
Whether or not to call it the Great Depression
Whether or not to close the European markets
50
Why were farmers hurting after WWI?
They're growing larger, high-quality food
They're growing excess crops, led to declining crop prices
They're growing smaller yields
They stopped growing excess crops, led to increased prices
51
Many farms were auctioned off when _______.
Farmers destroyed their crops to protest low farm prices
Rural banks collapsed
Farmers could not pay their mortgages
Farm families combined households to save money
52
Which economic activity would a member of the "Depression Generation" most likely avoid?
"Pinching" and saving for a future purchase
Buying expensive items in credit
Paying cash for consumer items
Preparing for an economic misfortune
53
Industry that developed to encourage consumers to spend?
Social Media
Advertising
Internet
Television
54
What was the employers' practice of offering workers benefit?
Welfare CAPITALISM
Real wages
Speculation
Buy on margin
55
People's physical and mental health deteriorated as a result of what?
A soaring divorce rate
Food shortages
Poor diets and anxiety/stress
School
56
What did the Bonus Army want?
$ from WWI
$ from WWII
57
What is a depositor?
A place to store large quantities of goods
A person who deposits
A person who keeps $ in a bank account
A person who owns a warehouse
58
What paid a fraction of a stock's price and borrow the rest?
Buy on margin
Real wages
installment buying
Welfare CAPITALISM
59
US Foreign policy in era after WWI?
Pre-emptive
Counter-terrorism
Interventionist
Isolationist
60
Returning WWI veterans returned home and had to find what?
Assembly Line
Jobs
Mob
Prohibiton
61
What two groups were not doing well in the 1920s?
Labor unions and corporations
Wealthy elite and politicians
Farmers and factory workers
Stockbrokers and bankers
62
Problems during peace time?
adjustment
peace
war
weather
63
In 1933, the 21st Ammendment brought an end to what?
Stock speculation
Prohibition
The U.S. Communist Party
The Depression
64
Why did people use humor during the Depression
To fight the Prohibition Amendment
To make higher salaries
To help fight despair
To force radical political change
65
What was taking chances in the stock market?
Speculation
Welfare CAPITALISM
Installment buying
Real wages
66
How were Farmers helped by the New Deal?
They were given subsidies ($) to grow more food
They were given subsidies ($) to grow less food
Special programs were created for minority farmers
Their debts were forgiven
67
18th Amendment did what?
Prohibited the teaching of evolution
Gave women the right to vote
Established income taxes
Made alcohol illegal
68
The nations' wealth during this period was concentrated with
Labor unions
Small business
Farmers and factory workers
Large corporations and wealthy elite
69
A major environmental crisis of the 1930s was known as what?
The Great Crash
Black Tuesday
The Grapes of Wrath
The Dust Bowl
70
Fear of communists/bolsheviks within the US attempting to overthrow the government?
Red Skull
Red Scare
HUAC
Hydra
71
Conservatives criticized the New Deal because they said it was...
Too close to Oligarchy
Too close to Capitalism
Too close to Communism
Too close to Monarchy
72
The 1932 presidential election served as a turning point in the way Americans viewed what?
The Bill of Rights
Local relief programs and private charities
The responsibilities of the federal government
Presidential elections
73
African American educator and activist in FDR's cabinet
Frances Perkins
Eleanor Roosevelt
Mary McLeod Bethune
Betty Smith
74
The collapse of the American economic system did what?
Boosted US investment in Europe
Led to a worldwide depression
Increased demand for cheap American goods
Affected only the economy of Germany
75
During the depression, the rise in homelessness was mainly the result of what?
Increased immigration
Laid off workers losing their homes
High interest rates
Decline in housing construction
76
As "First Lady" Eleanor Roosevelt worked for better conditions for who?
Farmers
Women and minorites
Polio victims
WWI veterans

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