Roaring 20s, The Great Depression, and the "New" Deal

Question 1

Social Security was a tax program to provide payments to

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unemployed and elderly people

Question 2

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

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was made to prevent fraud on the stock market

Question 3

The S.E.C. or Securities & Exchange commission to regulate . . .

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Stock Market

Question 4

The Tennessee Valley Authority................

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built 50 dams in the South to prevent flooding.

Question 5

This was President Roosevelt and Congress's first MAJOR bill in the first 100 days?

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Emergency Banking Bill

Question 6

This was the nickname for places where the topsoil had blown away?

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Dust Bowl

Question 7

Nickname for the actual day the stock market crashed? (10/29/1929)

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Black Tuesday

Question 8

This President is credited with crafting the Declaration of Independence?

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Thomas Jefferson

Question 9

Banks who were given money to extend loans to stimulate business was part of Hoover's "fix"?

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Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)

Question 10

President FDR considered him one of the most "dangerous men in America" for his radical ideas.

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Huey P. Long

Question 11

Which phrase below does NOT "fit" what would likely happen when one bank failure takes place?

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Confidence in the banking system would INCREASE

Question 12

These two President Hoover Depression "fixes" failed because people focus on their own needs.

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volunteerism and localism

Question 13

What REGION suffered a similar Great Depression due to the economic crisis in the United States?

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Europe

Question 14

Which two Amendments first instituted . . . and then repealed Prohibition of alcohol?

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18th and 21st

Question 15

What Movie does this video attempt to recreate with Lego animation?

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Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

Question 16

Name this dance craze

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Ju Ju on that Beat

Question 17

A Bank officially fails when . . .

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its liabilities EXCEED the Values of its ASSETS

Question 18

Organization which saw, Jews, Catholics, & immigrants as a threat to America?

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Ku Klux Klan

Question 19

Securities and Exchange Commission

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Monitors and enforces laws in regard to the stock market

Question 20

This First Lady during the 30s and 40s changed the role from a ceremonial to a political one?

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Eleanor Roosevelt

Question 21

Which accessory below WOULD NOT make this character memorable?

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Survival knife

Question 22

President Roosevelt said, "December 7th, a date which will live in infamy" referring to what?

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Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

Question 23

Where Jim Crow laws forced Black Americans faced discrimination in housing, jobs & opportunity?

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In the Deep South States like LA, AL, MS, GA, TN

Question 24

Which "Gru" Daughter wants to win the Pink Unicorn?

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Agnes

Question 25

Name the Movie

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Zootopia

Question 26

All the $ a bank has in their vaults & in the Federal Reserve Banks is their considered their:

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bank reserves

Question 27

Inflation occurs when there is

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a sustained increase in overall price of goods & services.

Question 28

When government stimulates or "kick starts" the economy by getting money in citizens hands.

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pump priming

Question 29

This New Deal program was created to build and improve highways?

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Works Progress Administration

Question 30

In which Star Wars Film would you witness the famous Pod Racing?

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Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

Question 31

manufacturing method in which each worker performs one step?

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mass production

Question 32

What word would best describe the direction of the economy in the 1920s?

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expansion

Question 33

Mexican Americans & many minority youth were extended jobs through which New Deal agency?

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Civilian Conservation Corps.

Question 34

The periodic expansion and contraction of the the economy is referred to as . . .

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the business cycle

Question 35

Name Which Harry Potter Film is Showcased?

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Question 36

When investors lose their confidence in the market & rush to sell their shares it can trigger?

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A stock market crash

Question 37

Run begins at one bank & causes a loss of confidence in other banks. What is this phenomena?

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bank panic

Question 38

THE Tennessee Valley Authority had many critics largely because?

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Gave government DIRECT control of a business.

Question 39

To escape their troubles of the Great Depression, folks often escaped with these 2 diversions?

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the Movies and Radio

Question 40

A period during which stocks skyrocket to incredible heights?

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Bull Market

Question 41

The Hawley-Smoot Tariff was supposed to protect American jobs. It typically leads to

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decrease in international trade,nations throw up tariffs too

Question 42

If government gives money to banks to loan to businesses to hire more workers this is called?

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trickle-down economics

Question 43

These 2 ethnic groups faced discrimination when competing with white Americans for employment?

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African Americans and Mexican Americans

Question 44

New York City's Madison Avenue in the 1920s represented

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advertising

Question 45

Cultural outpouring associated with African Americans . . .

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Harlem Renaissance

Question 46

He was the President of the United States During the Stock Market Crash of 1929?

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Herbert Hoover

Question 47

Court case set Darwinist theories against fundamental Christian beliefs about creationism?

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The Scopes Trial

Question 48

This New Deal Agency still exists today providing support for disability & old age pensions?

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Social Security Administration

Question 49

This particular sector of the economy was especially hit hard by a decline in prices?

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agricultural market, farmers

Question 50

Name the tallest building in the world?

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Burj Khalifa

Question 51

Founded when the gov't assumes responsibilities for providing for citizens needs?

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welfare state

Question 52

Harlem Renaissance writer who wrote of the pain & pride of being black?

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Langston Hughes

Question 53

This NEW DEAL Agency (still here today) regulates the stock market?

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Securities and Exchange Commission

Question 54

Easily converting an asset into cash quickly with little loss of value it's referred to as?

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liquidity

Question 55

The Social Security program of 1935 provided which of the following?

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All of the above

Question 56

manufacturing process like the Ford Assembly plants where each worker performs one step?

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mass production

Question 57

Why did conservatives argue against the Tennessee Valley Authority?

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it would compete against private industry

Question 58

This term refers to the general downward movement of prices for goods & services in an economy.

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deflation

Question 59

Which New Deal Program below IS NOT still in effect today, in the modern era?

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Public Works Administration (PWA)

Question 60

Dust bowl refugees who headed for California were nicknamed?

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"Okies"

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