Pre-Test: (U9) SSUSH 17,18,19 Depression, New Deal, and WWII

Which development caused many U.S. businesses to reduce the size of their labor forces just before the Great Depression?

• Monopolies forced several entrepreneurs out of business.

• Technological advances made it possible to automate many factory jobs.

• Congress passed a law protecting the right of factory workers to form unions.

• Consumers began to purchase fewer goods than businesses had produced.

Why did the U.S. Congress create the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1933?

• to process new immigrants arriving in the country

• to provide healthcare to the unemployed and elderly

• to investigate the activities of suspected communists

• to stimulate the economy of an underdeveloped region

Which domestic concern did the U.S. Congress address by passing the Social Security Act of 1935?

• stabilizing the banking system

• assisting the elderly and unemployed

• guaranteeing the right of workers to organize labor unions

• providing electrical power in an underdeveloped region

How did American women primarily contribute to the U.S. war effort during World War II?

• by working in factory jobs

• by leading diplomatic missions

• by piloting air raids on enemy positions

• by training new recruits in combat tactics

Use the flow chart to answer the question.

The Great Depression > Invasion of Manchuria for resources > Occupation of China > Occupation of Indochina > United States imposes embargo on scrap and gas > United States imposes embargo on oil products > ?

Which of the following events should appear where the question mark appears?

• Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

• Germany's invasion of Poland

• Germany's attack on Great Britian

• Italy's invasion of Ethiopia

Use the quotation to answer the question below.

We have found our factories able to turn out more goods than we could possibly consume, and at the same time we were faced with a falling export demand... The people of this country have been erroneously encouraged to believe that they could keep on increasing the output of... factory indefinitely and that some magician would find ways and means for that increased output to be consumed with reasonable profit to the producer.

--President Franklin D. Roosevelt,1933

What was the historical context of President Roosevelt's description in the quotation?

• the causes of the Red Scare

• the rise of American muckraking

• the origins of the Great Depression

• the beginning of U.S. expansionism

The term ¨Hooverville¨ refers to

• new subdivisions of homes that were constructed during the ¨land boom¨ of the early-1920s.

• the tent cities that thousands of soldiers inhabited while fighting in France in World War I.

• the popular name for shanty towns that were common during the Great Depression.

• the homes that were constructed for the poor during the New Deal.

In World War II, ¨D-Day¨ refers to

• Hitler's invasion of France.

• the Allied invasion of France.

• the end of World War II in Europe.

• the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Use this quote to answer the question.

¨Let me assert [declare] my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.¨

--President Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 4, 1933

In his first inaugural address, President Franklin D, Roosevelt was warning the American people NOT to be discouraged by the effects of

• Adolph Hitler's rise to power in Germany

• Japanese expansion in the Pacific

• the Great Depression

• Prohibition

Which of these was a PRIMARY cause of the Dust Bowl?

• the overworking of farmlands in the Great Plains

• a decrease in demand of agricultural goods

• low dairy prices in the Midwest

• the Great Depression