Stock Market Crash & Great Depression

Which of the following statements BEST describes the words, “manufactured items,"?

• artisans sew attire, garments, or clothing at home

• agricultural farms sell livestock, fruits, and vegetables

• machinery uses raw material to make products

• computers that have been designed in a technological process

• none of the these

Which of the following statements BEST describes the words, “laid off workers,”?

• productive activity for the sake of economic gain

• employees who've lost jobs because their employer has closed

• desire of a government that a country should build a military

• identification with one's own nation and support for its interests

• none of these

Which of the following statements BEST describes the words, “values of stocks”?

• discrimination against a different economy based on revenue

• taking money and exchanging it with the black market

• earnings, or sales, valuable to investors with resources

• a union formed for mutual benefit between countries

The 1920’s Prohibition outlawed the sale and production of which of the following products?

• tobacco cigarettes

• medical instruments

• petroleum gasoline

• diamond jewelry

• none of these

Which of the following states did NOT allow women to vote after World War One?

• California

• Oregon

• Alabama

• Kansas

• all of these

Which of the following events was a direct EFFECT of the Bank Panic of 1931?

• Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in 1941.

• Adolf Hitler invaded Poland and World War Two started in 1939.

• President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the New Deal/FDIC in 1933.

• World War Two ended in 1945 with Hitler’s suicide in Nazi Germany.

• All of these are direct effects

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

• Investors panicked and sold their stocks because of the financial crisis.

• The Stock Market Crash caused money losses and the Great Depression.

• Stock prices dropped during the Stock Market Crash in 1929.

• The Stock Market Crash caused financial investors to keep their stocks.

• All of these are false.

Which of the following statements about the United States unemployment rate from 1929-1942 is FALSE?

• The Stock Market Crash of 1929 caused severe unemployment and an economic crisis.

• The Stock Market Crash of 1929 caused investors to sell their stocks because prices dropped.

• More jobs were available during World War 2 from 1939 to 1945 because of wartime needs.

• Franklin D. Roosevelt improved unemployment with the New Deal Program from 1933-1937.

• All of these are true.

Which of the following statements BEST analyzes this political cartoon?

• World War 1 soldiers struggled to find work in 1919 after they fought overseas in Europe.

• The United States taxed peasants and the middle class workers during the Great Depression.

• Uncle Sam symbolized the Female Suffrage Movement and the Prohibition Era in the 1920s.

• Workers had high salaries, and the cost of living was low after the Stock Market Crash.

• none of these

Who is this man?

• Herbert Hoover

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Woodrow Wilson

• None of these