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NEW DEAL AND GREAT DEPRESSION
NEW DEAL AND GREAT DEPRESSION
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1
What was the name of the policy that stated the US would stay out of Latin American politics?
Amigo Policy
Good Neighbor Policy
Cash and Carry Policy
Winnebago Pact
2
Who worked in the Civilian Conservation Corps?
African American Women
Immigrants
Out of work farmers
Young unmarried men
3
Who was president in the
beginning
of the Great Depression?
Herbert Hoover
John F. Kennedy
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
4
What role did Hoover believe was the government's role in the economy?
Provide food and shelter for the poor
None
Give health insurance to those working
Set a minimum wage
5
What was the nickname of the the shanty towns in which homeless Americans live in?
Favellas
Hoovervilles
Herbertons
United Scotts of America
6
What program was designed to bring electricity to rural areas of Tennessee?
Tennessee Valley Authority
Tennessee Titains
Tennessee Light and Power Authority
Tennessee Savings and Loan
7
How did overproduction impact the Great Depression?
Made factory owners rich
Made goods cheaper
Increased unemployment
Lead to the Dust Bowl
8
What act gave long term jobs to Americans through building roads, bridges, schools, etc?
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
World Wrestling Federation (WWF)
Bridge and Aqueduct Administration (BAB)
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
9
What was the unemployment rate for African Americans in Harlem?
50%
25%
80%
3%
10
What was Roosevelt's plan to end the Great Depression?
Dollar Menu Deal
New Deal
Fair Deal
Big Deal
11
How did FDR address the country throughout the Great Depression?
Television shows
Skywritting
Newspaper Columns
Fireside Chats over the Radio
12
What program insured bank deposits and created confidence in the banking system?
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Banking Urgent Restoration Program (BURP)
Pardoning Offensive Obstention Payments (POOP)
Financial Assistance Recovery Tract (FART)
13
What executive order sent Japanese Americans to internment camps?
Executive Order Lightning Storm
Executive Order 9066
Executive Order Safety Force
Executive Order Downtrodden
14
Which of the following was a positive of the New Deal?
Helped invent the internet
Made congress ineffective
Gave millions people jobs
Proved communism couldn't work
15
Which of the three R's was designed to be permanent to prevent future depressions?
Reform
Relief
Recovery
16
What did the Neutrality Act ban?
Building a border wall
Selling weapons to countries at war
Painting the White House another color
The United States declaring war on Canada
17
What agency paid farmers to NOT grow food?
Farmers For Food (FFF)
Plantation Protection Procedures (PPP)
Emergency Estate Reparations (EER)
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
18
What was the name of the group of WWI veterans who marched to Washington for their bonus?
Bonus Army
Veterans Brigade
March on Washington
Long Shoreman
19
Which of the following New Deal agencies was deemed unconstitutional?
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Securities and Exchange Committee (SEC)
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
National Recovery Act (NRA)
20
What was the unemployment rate at the height of the Great Depression?
100%
25%
10%
50%
21
What was the name for the drought in the central of the country?
Dust Bowl
Great Irrigation Crisis
Desertification
Wild Wild West
22
Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Dust Bowl?
Crop circles
Bad farming techniques
Drought
Over farming
23
Which of the following is
NOT
a critique/negative of the New Deal?
Doubled the debt
It helped too many other countries, but not America
Didn't help minorities
Made the office of President too strong
24
How many terms was FDR elected to?
3
4
1
2
25
Where did people go to receive food from charities and gangsters?
Bread lines
Soup Kitchens
Government-run restaurants
Hospitals
26
What was it called when people went to their banks and withdrew all their money?
Cash Grab
Banker Dankers
Bank Vault
Bank Rush
27
Why was the Emergency Banking Act of 1933 passed?
Stop banks from investing in the stock market
Give low interest loans
Make banks stronger
Stop bank runs
28
Name of the policy that allowed allies to buy materials, but they had to transport it.
Money and Move
Loot and Scoot
Cash and Carry
Supply and Ship
29
What does Black Tuesday refer to?
Stock Market Crash
The day after Thanksgiving
Pearl Harbor Attack
The day FDR died
30
What was the Glass Steagall Act?
Improved the economy through education
Build battleships for the Navy
Kept banks from investing in the stock market
Gave free drugs to the elderly
31
Which of the following was
NOT
one of the "R"'s of the New Deal?
Recoop
Reform
Recovery
Relief
32
Which of the three R's was designed to be immediate and help people short term?
Reform
Recovery
Relief
33
Which New Deal program gave aid in the form of cash payments?
National Laser Beams for the Elderly Act
National Recovery Act
Federal Emergency Relief Act
Works Progress Administration
34
Who beat Herbert Hoover in the election of 1932?
Lyndon B. Johnson
Abraham Lincoln
Harry Truman
Franklin D. Roosevelt
35
What was the impact of Bank Runs?
People believed their money was safe
End of the Gold Standard
The Stock Market Crashed
Banks collapsed and lost people's money
36
What standard was the United States removed from in order to print more money?
Platinum Standard
Silver Standard
Gold Standard
Bronze Standard
37
What brought the United States into World War II?
Pearl Harbor
Boston Massacre
Hitler's invasion of Poland
Zimmerman Telegram
38
What disease paralyzed FDR from the waist down?
Polio
Sickle Cell Anemia
Bubonic Plague
MRSA
39
What is the name for buying stocks on credit?
Cash and Carry
Buying on Margin
SEC
Loan Program
40
What does the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) monitor for fraud?
Stock Market
Banking
Farming
Government
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What act loaned war time materials to allies?
Jeans Like Me Act
Seelinger-Scott Pledge
Borrow and Return Act
Lend Lease Act
