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1
Buying stocks, hoping for a quick profit.
credit
speculation
buying on margin
direct relief
2
What law replaced the first AAA?
Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act
Farm Production Act
Agricultural Adjustment Act II
Helping Farmers Act
3
Who was president when Black Tuesday occurred?
Harding
Hoover
Coolidge
FDR
4
What kind of people were signed up for the CIO?
farmers
artists
teachers
unskilled/semi-skilled workers
5
Which of the following best describes how women were affected by the Depression?
all of these
starved in secret
rejected from the workforce
desperate to feed children
6
Where in the U.S. did the Dust Bowl occur?
west coast
southeast
north
midwest
7
The Great Depression lasted
11 years
4 years
13 years
8 years
8
FDR didn't commit to full civil rights for African Americans because
he was afraid of upsetting with democrats in the South.
he didn't believe in racial equality.
He was oblivious to racism.
He would promote equality after the Depression.
9
Who is known for Great Depression photography?
Lewis Hine
Dorothea Lange
Jacob Riis
Bill Miller
10
This group included Southern whites, various urban groups, African Americans, and union workers
Congress of Industrial Organizations
New Deal coalition
Works Progress Administration
National Youth Administration
11
What signaled the beginning of the Great Depression?
bank and business failures
Black Tuesday
buying on credit
unemployment
12
Which of the following best describe how children were affected by the Depression?
malnutrition
gender role confusion
abuse
obesity
13
Which of the following is Black Tuesday?
12-6-1929
3-2-1929
11-29-1929
10-29-1929
14
What was the goal of the Patman Bill?
paying the veterans' bonus
complete Boulder Dam construction
providing shelter to homeless
protecting the stock market
15
Most "bread lines" or soup lines were provided by
the federal government
state governments
government agencies
independent charities
16
Maintaining prices at the same level.
regulation
speculation
price support
rationing
17
The WPA helped employ
labor union members only
many unskilled workers
teenagers needing an education
young men working outdoors
18
What was the purpose of the Hawley-Smoot tariff?
improve foreign trade
keep American money in America
stall the economy
Tax the Dust Bowl states
19
Created the Black Cabinet
John Steinbeck
Mary McLeod Bethune
Eleanor Roosevelt
Frances Perkins
20
Who was president when the Depression began?
Coolige
Harding
Roosevelt
Hoover
21
Dorothea Lange did what kind of work?
1st woman Senator
photographed immigrant children
photographed people's suffering during Depression
ran settlement house
22
New Deal program that had the greatest and most lasting effect
Social Security
Wagner Act
Works Progress Admin.
AAA
23
Paying a small percentage of stock's price as a down payment; borrowing the rest.
credit
buying on margin
Great Depression
price support
24
Who won the election of 1936?
Coolidge
Truman
FDR
Hoover
25
During the New Deal, FDR's administration created
a new political party
a federal deficit
a regular tv program
the Dust Bowl #FDRdidtheDustBowl
26
What caused the growth of California's agricultural economy?
Hoover Dam
Bonus Army
Hoovervilles
price supports
27
Who was president after Hoover?
LBJ
JFK
FDR
the Dub
28
Which of the following best describes how men were affected by the Depression?
all of these
feeling depressed
feeling worthless
feeling like less of a man
29
How did the Great Depression effect the global economy?
it increased international trade
it ended the use of tariffs
it had no effect
it caused greater financial problems worldwide
30
The helped regulate the stock market.
Social Security
FDIC
NIRA
Securities and Exchange Commission
31
Group of WWI vets demanding payments.
Hoovervilles
Bonus Army
U.S. Navy
speculation group
32
Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Great Depression?
crisis in the farming sector
buying on credit
unequal income distribution
unemployed women
33
What were shantytowns?
little towns consisting of shacks
muddy-dirty houses
towns in Alabama
houses on a farm
34
In what decade did the Great Depression primarily take place?
1950s
1920s
1940s
1930s
35
FDR's idea that was rejected during the New Deal
adding justices to the supreme court
creating the CCC
marrying his 5th cousin
creating the AAA
36
Eleanor Roosevelt
completely avoided anything to do with politics
observed social conditions around the nation
often threw elaborate dinner parties
was the first woman Cabinet member
37
When the government sets a price for a crop it's called a
hobo
Hooverville
parity
margin
38
Which state was NOT included in the Dust Bowl?
Oklahoma
Texas
Arkansas
Colorado
39
What did the National Youth Administration (NYA) do?
all of these
provided counseling for youth
helped youth stay in school
helped youth find jobs
40
October 29, 1929
end of WWI
Hoover inauguration
My birthday!
Black Tuesday
41
Hoover administration project that helped but was considered "too little, too late".
Federal Home Loan Bank Act
Hoover Dam
price supports
New Deal
42
Which war came before the Great Depression?
Korean War
WWII
Vietnam
WWI
43
Who provided direct relief?
government
President Hoover
farmers
Mrs. Lewis
44
The first thing FDR did as president
created the Brain Trust
built a fire to chat beside
closed banks for inspection
waited 100 days to do anything
45
The Hoover Dam was originally called the
Great Western Dam
Hoover Dam
Boulder Dam
Depression Dam
46
Who does the Social Security Act benefit?
all of these
unemployed
elderly/retired
people with disabilities
47
What day was Black Tuesday?
October 21st
November 29th
October 29th
August 29th
48
What was the purpose of the Hawley-Smoot tariff?
to worsen the Depression
to protect farmers
to sell crops overseas
to provide direct relief
49
Which war ended the Great Depression?
WWII
Korean War
Cold War
WWI
50
Paying a small percentage of the price of a stock and borrowing the rest.
buying on margin
loan
credit
price support
51
Another name for a shantytown?
soddy
Hooverville
Hobo Haven
slum
52
The program proposed by Huey Long was called
Social Security
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
Works Progress Administration
Share Our Wealth
53
Hoping to make a quick profit by doing risky business in the stock market.
speculation
buying on margin
Black Tuesday
entrepreneurship
54
Frances Perkins was
a creator of the Social Security system
all of these
America's first female cabinet member
Secretary of Labor
55
First woman cabinet member
John Stamos
Mary McLeod Bethune
Frances Perkins
Dorothea Lange
56
The Bonus Army consisted of veterans of which war?
Spanish-American War
Civil War
WWII
WWI
57
What is direct relief?
gov't gives money where it's needed
Hoover's policy
when bae texts back
applying BenGay on the spot
58
A small town consisting of shacks.
shantytown
suburb
soddy
Hoover Dam
59
What was the major reason for FDR's reelection in 1936?
people like the Second New Deal
He passed Civil Rights acts.
He kept us out of WWI
He got the AAA passed.
60
Which of these was a sign of economic problems in the 1920s?
high prices for crops
people unwilling to invest in the stock market
many people buying on credit
general income equality
61
Who did the federal home loan bank act benefit?
big business
government
the army
farmers
62
Some of the Bonus Army was
given money by President Hoover
insisting on women's rights
gassed
paid its bonus early
