The Great Depression 1930s

Which of the following BEST describes American foreign policy from 1920-1940?

• After World War I, Americans took on the role of international peacekeeping to keep the world safe for democracy.

• Before World War II, Americans preferred isolationism, limited immigration, and neutrality in foreign conflicts.

• Americans pursued larger imperial agendas in Europe and Latin America to increase oil export.

• The United States anticipated World War II and built up military bases in the Pacific and North Africa.

What happened in the 1930s in the colored area of the map below?

• The Civil War

• The Great Migration

• The Dust Bowl

• The development of the National Park System

Which program and economic theory did the government implement to build these dams?

• socialism; Fabian economics

• the New Deal; deficit spending

• Social Darwinism; command economy

• American Federation of Labor; laissez-faire economics

The New Deal offered a new philosophy of government in the United States of America. Which of the following choices was NOT one of the lasting legacies of the New Deal?

• the government sustains a social security program

• the president exercises substantial executive authority

• the Democratic Party leans toward social rights liberalism

• labor unions continue to be powerful in the US

In the 1935 landmark case of Schechter Poultry v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that parts of the New Deal were unconstitutional. What legal question was at the center of this case?

• Does the commerce clause give Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce?

• Does the Meat Inspection Act apply to plants that process food for export to other countries?

• Does the National Recovery Act violate the separation of powers among the three branches?

• Does the Works Progress Administration program violate the Federal Equal Pay for Women Act?

What demands did the Bonus Army make?

• As veterans who resented US involvement abroad, they demanded an immediate end to World War I.

• The veterans insisted on the resignation of Herbert Hoover.

• Speaking for many desperate Americans during the Depression, they requested additional government regulation on railroads and Wall Street.

• As numerous veterans were living in poverty, they appealed for immediate payment of certificates owed to them for war service.

What response did the government have to the demands of the Bonus Army?

• Congress countermanded a decade of conservative economic policy and enacted regulatory action on all aspects of the economy.

• In an astonishing assertion of legislative power over the executive branch, Congress pressured Hoover and his cabinet to resign.

• Police and military intervention resulted in violence and public spectacle, that humiliated Hoover.

• Reversing course on isolationist policies, the Senate passed the Treaty of Versailles.

What political consequences followed the events surrounding the Bonus Army?

• Franklin D. Roosevelt became president after Hoover's resignation, ushering in a new era of government activism.

• Public anger over Hoover's handling of the Bonus Army and his conservative reaction to the Depression cost him the 1932 election.

• Counter protests erupted all over the US over the exclusion from the League of Nations.

• Threatened by economic regulations, corporations raised prices on consumers, which escalated the Great Depression.

The forty-hour workweek, federal minimum wage, and child labor laws are now established American law as a result of

• Theodore Roosevelt's Square Deal

• Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal Program

• Lyndon Johnson's Great Society Program

• John Kennedy's New Frontier Program

Which of the following descriptions would be accurate about the Social Security program?

• employed young men on projects conserving natural resources

• provided pensions for elderly Americans and the disabled

• employed Americans to build roads, schools, and airports