Hoover Reading Quiz

Why do American visit the Hoover Dam?

• The most famous dam in the world

• Environmental farming disaster

• Cause by stock market collapse and bank runs

• President Hoover is buried inside the dam

What was the purpose of the Dam?

• generate hydroelectric power and permit managed irrigation in southern California's imperial Valley.

• Helped Franklin Roosevelt beat Hoover in the 1932 election

• to help prevent environmental farming disaster

• prevent drought in the midwest

Who took office as president in 1929?

• Herbert Hoover

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Woodrow Wilson

How did the Hoover Dam combat the Great Depression?

• provide construction contracts and jobs to western companies and Americans

• provide direct relief to Americans on the east coast

• influx of government money into the banking system

• showed the failure of "rugged individualism"

What did "high scalers do"?

• Men who were lowered over the rim of the Hoover Dam to clear away loose rock

• Men who used explosives to clear the Hoover Dam tunnels

• Name of the Bonus Army communist agents

• Hoover's nickname

What year was the Hoover Dam started and finished?

• 1931 - 1935

• 1923 - 1935

• 1929 - 1934

• 1914-1918

Why was the Hoover Dam originally not named after President Hoover?

• Hoover didn't want the Dam built

• Franklin Roosevelt didn't want it named after his predecessor

• Franklin Roosevelt wanted it named after his wife

• Hoover felt ashamed that the dam was built

Select three problems Hoover faced while President

• "Black Tuesday" stock market crash

• Hoovervilles springing up across the country

• Farmers protested and went on strike in the midwest

• Radio broadcasts declaring a communist uprising

Who were the Bonus Army?

• Angry and poor farmers who marched on Washington DC

• Americans who lined up for food in bread lines in New York City

• World War I veterans who needed money

• World War I veterans who hated Franklin Roosevelt

How did Democrats use the Bonus Army against President Hoover?

• Stated Hoover had murdered veterans on the streets of Washington

• Stated Hoover let them live and "soil" the White House

• Stated Hoover didnt kill enough of them

• Stated Hoover was a secret communist agent working against democracy