US History Module 22 Lesson

Multiple Choice

An important factor contributing to the Great Depression was the

• Large military expenditure during the 1920s.

• Decline in farm prosperity during the 1920s.

• Rapid depletion of the nation’s mineral resources.

• Increase in population due to immigration.

Multiple Choice

What piece of legislation did President Hoover sign, against the advice of thousands of economists, that weakened foreign trade and contributed to farm and factory economic weakness?

• Glass-Steagall Act

• Emergency Relief and Construction Act

• Smoot-Hawley Tariff

• Fordney-McCumber Tariff

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was NOT an action taken by the Hoover administration to try and end the GreatDepression?

• The Federal Farm Board was organized to provide credits for farmers.

• Hoover signed the Hawley-Smoot tariff, the largest tariff increase in American history.

• The Reconstruction Finance Commission was formed to provide federal loans to business and banks

• Hoover did none of the above because he did not believe the government should involve itself with the economy.

Multiple Choice

Camps of families made homeless by the GreatDepression were known as

• Hoovervilles

• The slums

• New Dealers

• Bonus Armies

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT true concerning the National Recovery Administration?

• It was led by Hugh Johnson.

• It allowed businesses to collude to fix prices and wages in an attempt to stop cutthroat competition, which benefitted large businesses at the expense of smaller ones.

• It was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1935 in the “sick chicken case,” A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States.

• All of the above are true.

Multiple Choice

Louisiana Senator Huey Long and Catholic radio host Father Charles Coughlin both attacked the New Deal from which side of the political spectrum?

• Both attacked it from the Right

• Both attacked it from the Left

• Long attacked from the Right, Coughlin from the Left

• Long attacked from the Left, Coughlin from the Right

Multiple Choice

Which New Deal program provided 10 million people jobs for projects that included building roads, sewing, recording oral histories, public art, and the recording of folk music?

• Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

• Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

• Works Progress Administration (WPA)

• National Recovery Administration (NRA)

Multiple Choice

The significance of the National Labor Relations Act to organized labor was that it

• abolished the National Labor Relations Board

• provided unemployment benefits to workers on strike

• provided strong government protection for unions

• explicitly repudiated the right of collective bargaining

Multiple Choice

The Social Security Act

• Forced states to provide emergency relief for citizens

• Created a trust fund for pensions of retirees to be paid for by a tax on individual income

• Provided health insurance for poor Americans

• Required the federal government to regulate state unemployment benefits

Multiple Choice

The relief programs of the New Deal had long term significance because they

• Abolished state and local programs of assistance.

• Helped trigger immediate, widespread recovery.

• Established the principle that the government pay the wages of private industry.

• Marked a major expansion in the functions of the federal government.