The Great Depression (Burke 147)

Question 1

What was the primary reason for farmers receiving low prices for their crops

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Overproduction

Question 2

During the first part of the Great Depression, congress passed the Hawley-Smoot tariff to

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To protect American industries from foreign markets

Question 3

Which was NOT a cause of the Great Depression

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A growing number of homeless people

Question 4

People urged President Hoover to veto the Hawley-Smoot bill partly because it would

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reduce foreign markets

Question 5

Which of the following describes a government system for giving payments or food

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Direct relief

Question 6

Which of the following from FDRs new deal programs was a reform program

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Security and Exchange Commission

Question 7

Banks were especially hard hit by the stock market crash because

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They had loaned money to the brokerage houses

Question 8

One of the great ironies of the Depression was that

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Hunger existed in the midst of plenty

Question 9

Which of the following week NOT a cause of the Great Depression

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A rise in farm prices

Question 10

The Civilian Conservation Corps helped

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Construction workers

Question 11

1929 the collapse of the stock market was called

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Black Tuesday

Question 12

When the Great Depression first began, President Hoover and Congress

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Refused to take action

Question 13

The New Deal set up a federal agency to produce electricity in the

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Tennessee valley

Question 14

What program was designed to provide financial aid for education

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National Youth Administration

Question 15

What where the makeshift"villages" that many family's lived in during the great depression?

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Hoovervilles

Question 16

Why did the Bonus Army mach on Washington?

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They wanted early payment for their bonuses

Question 17

Legislation of the first New Deal primarily focused on

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Relief and recovery

Question 18

The Farm Board tried to persuade Farmers to

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Grow less to reduce surplus

Question 19

The social Security Act of 1935 was designed to help

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Those unable to work (e.g, Elderly)

Question 20

What New Deal program offered the unemployed jobs instead of handouts?

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Both A&C, Public Works Administration (PWA), Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Question 21

The National Labor Relations Board could

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All of the above

Question 22

Which candidates ran for President in 1932

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Herbet Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 23

President Hoover believed that the way out of the Great Depression was through

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Volunteer efforts by charities and organizations

Question 24

A risky business venture involving buying or selling in hope of making quick and large profit

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Speculation

Question 25

Some programs started during the New Deal are still functioning today...Like

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Regulation the stock market and insuring peoples savings

Question 26

As a result of the ___ many people from Oklahoma and Texas moved to California to look for jobs

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Dust Bowl

Question 27

A slowdown or refusal to buy goods is called?

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Under-consumption

Question 28

What was the reason Hoover opposed direct federal relief for the unemployed?

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All of the above

Question 29

Buying stock by making a small cash down payment and borrowing the rest from a broker is called

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Buying on margin

Question 30

Which of the following was NOT a result of the Dust Bowl?

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The Bonus Army marching in Washington

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