The Great Depression

Question 1

How did the New Deal affect American Artists?

Accepted Answer

The government gave funds for them to work

Question 2

What was one result of the Indian Reorganization Act?

Accepted Answer

Allowed Natives more control over their own affairs

Question 3

How did President Hoover deal with the Bonus Army?

Accepted Answer

Had the military break them up with force.

Question 4

What was President Hoover's first approach to trying to fix the economy during the Depression?

Accepted Answer

Asking Wealthy Americans to volunteer time and money

Question 5

Which of these New Deal programs built many infrastructure projects that are still in use today

Accepted Answer

The Public Works Administration

Question 6

What was the earliest factor contributing to the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

economic challenges in the farming industry

Question 7

What was the environmental disaster that forced 800,000 Americans to leave their homes?

Accepted Answer

Dust Bowl

Question 8

Orson Welles produced what radio program that made many Americans believe we were being invaded

Accepted Answer

War of the Worlds

Question 9

What did the unemployment rate reach during the Depression?

Accepted Answer

25%

Question 10

What was Franklin Roosevelt's favorite New Deal program?

Accepted Answer

Civilian Conservation Corps

Question 11

Which of the following was a result of prohibition during the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

All three are results.

Question 12

Why were there fewer women in the workforce in 1920 than before WWI?

Accepted Answer

Men returning from the war displaced them from their jobs.

Question 13

What was President Hoover's opinion about business and regulation?

Accepted Answer

He believed that business should be deregulated.

Question 14

What does a "Laissez-Faire" approach to economics mean?

Accepted Answer

A "hands-off" sort of approach.

Question 15

The Works Progress Administration encouraged the arts by hiring artists to:

Accepted Answer

Paint murals on public buildings

Question 16

FDR wanted to protect his New Deal from the court by adding more justices to the Supreme Court.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

The Civilian Conservation Corps could be most associated with which of the following:

Accepted Answer

National Parks

Question 18

What did President Coolidge mean when he said, "The man who builds a factory builds a temple."

Accepted Answer

People who build productive business deserve highest respect

Question 19

What is one way that Henry Ford revolutionized American industry?

Accepted Answer

The Assembly Line

Question 20

What part of the country was most impacted by the dust bowl?

Accepted Answer

The Great Plains

Question 21

What was one of the main factors leading to the consumer revolution of the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

Accessibility of Electricity

Question 22

What was one of the most famous Depression Era films, starring Judy Garland?

Accepted Answer

The Wizard of Oz

Question 23

Which southern senator was a critic of the New Deal because he wanted to "share the wealth"?

Accepted Answer

Huey Long

Question 24

October 29, 1929 is known as what?

Accepted Answer

Black Tuesday

Question 25

Farmers had suffered throughout the boom of the 1920s because they were burdened with war debt.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 26

President Roosevelt delivered the first of these "chats" to reassure the people about the banks

Accepted Answer

Fireside Chats

Question 27

What is the highest grossing film of all time, adjusted for inflation?

Accepted Answer

Gone With the Wind

Question 28

The Hoover Dam was built because of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 29

As Secretary of Labor, she became the first woman appointed to a cabinet level position.

Accepted Answer

Frances Perkins

Question 30

What was the term used to describe FDR's group of unofficial African American advisers?

Accepted Answer

The Black Cabinet

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