Ch 18

The first feature-length animated film was

• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

• Littel Mermaid

• Cinderella

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation marked the first time that the federal government had established an agency to stimulate the ____________________ during peacetime

• economy

• banks

• people

President Herbert Hoover did not want the government to create as many new jobs as the millions of unemployed people needed because that would require

• increased government spending

• increased government regulation

President Hoover’s image was tarnished by the rout of the Bonus Marchers, as well as by the

• lingering Depression

• emergency loans to states

Stockbrokers who made loans that allowed investors to buy stocks could issue a ____________________ to protect their loans

• margain call

• foreclosure call

• credit call

As creditors foreclosed on nearly one million farms between 1930 and 1934, some farmers destroyed their crops in a desperate attempt to

• raise prices by reducing supply

• retaliate against their creditors.

The group of World War I veterans who marched on Washington in 1932 was called the _________________________.

• Bonus Army

• Special Army

• Veteran Army

The stock market took its steepest dive on October 29, 1929, the day now known as

• Black Tuesday

• Black Friday

• Black Thursday

As a result of the stock market crash, some banks suffered more losses than they could absorb and

• were forced to close

• had to approve more loans

In 1932 President Hoover asked Congress to set up the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in order to allow the government to

• make loans to businesses.

• provide

  relief to the unemployed.