Chapters 22 & 23 Study Quiz

What name was given to the men & boys who rode the rails as they searched for work?

• Okies

• hoboes

• speculators

• Bonus Marchers

What does buying a stock on margin mean?

• buying the stock outside the regular stock exchange

• borrowing money to help pay for the stock

• paying less than the market price of the stock

• purchasing the stock for someone else

Which of these was NOT an EFFECT of the Great Depression?

• many people started farming

• many children had a poor diet

• many families became homeless

• many men became unemployed

Which of these was NOT a CAUSE of the Great Depression?

• a crisis in the farm sector

• a growing number of homeless people

• the availability of easy credit

• tariffs on foreign goods

Which of the following increased in the 1920's?

• prices for farm products

• farmers' debts

• foreign demand for U.S. farm products

• domestic demand for U.S. farm products

Who made up the Bonus Army that marched on Washington?

• farmers that had been forced off their land by dust storms

• unemployed industrial workers and their families

• World War I veterans and their families

• business and labor leaders who agreed to work together

Which candidates ran for president in 1932?

• Calvin Coolidge & Herbert Hoover

• Herbert Hoover & Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Calvin Coolidge & Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Herbert Hoover & Alfred E. Smith

Direct relief is a government system for giving payments or food to the poor.

• True

• False

Who was the democrat that lost the presidential election of 1928?

• Herbert Hoover

• Alfred E. Smith

• Hawley Smoot

• Louis Armstrong

Who was the republican that won the presidential election of 1928?

• Herbert Hoover

• Alfred E. Smith

• Louis Armstrong

• Hawley Smoot