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8. Great Depression Unit 7 State Test Review Part 1
8. Great Depression Unit 7 State Test Review Part 1
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This focuses on the Great Depression: causes, life during the depression, and Hoover’s Response
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What is the peak percentage of unemployment we reached during the depression?
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20
25
30
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Which word means "the belief that the stock market would continue to increase in value"?
Federal Reserve
Overspeculation
Bank Runs
Buying on Margin
3
Physically, who were effected the most negatively during the depression?
Children
Adult
Farmers
Politicians
4
Name of the woman who took photos documenting the worst parts of the depression: Dust Bowl.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Carrie Nation
Dorothea Lange
Frances Perkins
5
Name of the book written by John Steinbeck that illustrated the struggles of an Okie family leaving the Dust Bowl region
Grapes of Wrath
The Great Gatsby
A Farewell to Arms
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Choose all organizations that helped with creating soup kitchens in the cities during the depression.
Shantytowns
Church
Salvation Army
YMCA
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What do most economist believe was the MAIN cause of the Great Depression?
Weak Economic Policies
Overprodcution
Bank Failures
Overspeculation
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Date the stock market crashed:
October 29, 1929
January 29, 1929
December 7, 1941
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Bull Market:
The decline in interest rates.
a continuous increase in the value of stocks.
A continual decrease in the value of stocks.
The rise of interest rates.
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The Dust Bowl effected what region of the United States? (Choose 2)
Great Plains
West (California)
Midwest
Northeastern Region
11
Men would jump on trains to ride the rails in search of jobs across the nation:
Inflation
Hooverville
Shantytown
Hobo
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Rugged individualism
Banks began to foreclose farms
The help from the government
Suffered from overproduction
All individuals could succeed on their own, without the gov
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Which is TRUE about the Federal Reserve in the
1920s?
(Choose 2)
They caused a rise in inflation throughout the decade.
They kept interest rates high, limited the amount of money in circulation
They kept interest rates low which encouraged buying.
They caused a rise in deflation throughout the decade.
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Choose all that are TRUE about the Hawley Smoot Tariff: (3)
Signed by Hoover to encourage buyhing from US businesses.
Had good intentions, but bad effects.
Cut off international trade because it hurt Europes economy too.
Helped American businesses temporarily.
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How were SOUTHERN farmers devastated during the Great Depression?
Years of drought did not allow for crops to be produced efficiently.
The boll weevil destroyed cotton crop production.
The Dust Bowl completely ruined their crop production.
Flooding frmost the Mississippi River destroyed most farms along its edge.
16
All of the following were used as a form of escape from the depression EXCEPT:
Writing Books
Superhero Magazines
Movie Theater
17
Who did Hoover use to break up the Bonus Army in Washington DC?
Francis Townsend
Franklin Roosevelt
Douglas MacArthur
Frances Perkins
18
Choose the three ways that Hoover did respond to the Great Depression?
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Public Works Projects
Direct Relief
Hawley Smoot Tariff
19
Where did many people settle at in cities that were homeless? (Choose 2)
Moved to California to work on grape farms.
Hoovervilles
Moved to the Great Plains to escape the city.
Shantytowns
20
When businesses overproduce and begin to struggle; what area do they make cuts first?
They cut down on the number of employees they have.
They cut down on the money they are paying the banks.
The quit paying all overhead cost.
21
Name given to the day that stock market crashed:
Bear Market
Bull Market
Black Tuesday
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To borrow money in order to invest in the stock market.
Bear Market
Buying on Margin
Bull Market
Overspeculation
23
Bonus Army?
WW1 veterans who marched on Washington D.C. for their money.
Children of army members.
People who payed to get into the army
The women who wernt in war.
24
What is the MAIN reason banks were failing throughout the early 1930s?
They lost investors money in the stock market crash.
Bank Runs
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Hoover's Respone to the Great Depression:
Too Little.... Too Late
Never helped because the believed in laissez faire.
Took too strong of a hands on approach.
26
What was the MAIN reason Mexican immigrants were deported during the depression?
They were deported in order to open up jobs for true American citizens.
Nativism encouraged the deportation of all immigrants.
The immigration laws of the 1920's should have kept them from entering.
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What could the Federal Reserve have done in the 1920s to help defer some of the worst effects of the depression?
Lowered interest rates, reducing deflation.
Raised interest rates, reducing inflation.
