1920s and 1930s Unit Test Review

In which decade did the Great Depression occur?

Which of the following gave FDR the 1932 election?

Which president was blamed for causing the depression

Which group of people suffered the longest during the Great Depression?

Who/What was responsible for the depression?

During the 1920's, people invested in the stock market and increased their spending.

Tennessee passed a law that stated _____.

Whose first response was to cut taxes?

Which of the following was FDR not elected?

Government-financed construction of public facilities was called

Who became the conscience of the New Deal?

Declared unconstitutional

Promised "A Chicken in Every pot"

Making payments every month

Domestic policy was the New Deal

Hoover's first response to the Great Depression

What term refers to the practice of purchasing stock with borrowed money?

Buying something at a low price in hopes of selling it at a higher price is called _______?

Which of the following DID NOT contribute to the depression?

Which tariff was the highest in U.S. History?

Which state benefited the most from the Hoover Dam project?

American cities

FDR was willing to work with President Hoover through the transition of presidencies.

Whose first response was to declare a bank holiday?

Free public handouts

Organizer of unskilled workers

Popular means of entertainment in the 1930s

1936 Election - who won?

Empty pockets turned inside out were called ____.

Share our Wealth; he was assassinated

The 1920s is known as the Jazz Age because of the Harlem Renaissance.

On what month, day and year did the bottom fall out of the stock market?

CCC

Ohio Gang

Social Security Act

Which president advocated free government handouts?

The purpose of the Fireside chats was to encourage people to invest their money.

Social Security Act

Social Security Act

Hoover supported relief through ___.

Buying low in hopes of selling high

Why did the Democrats lose the election of 1928?

Prosecuting attorney in the Scopes Trial

Laissez-faire

Cardboard shacks sheltering homeless people in parks were called ___.

Which characterizes the beliefs of Hoover?

Purchasing stock without risking too much of a person's money

Foreign policy for 1920's presidents

The divorce rate decreased during the 1920's and 1930's

Strong growing economy

President Hoover refused to call the economic crisis the historical name of a "panic".