US History Unit 7 - SSUSH 17-19

What effect did the Dust Bowl storms have on the Great Depression?

• Many farmers were forced to leave the Great Plains.

• Unemployment decreased gradually.

• Hoover was re-elected as president.

• Many homes long the Mississippi River were flooded.

What were the villages full of shacks located in cities filled with unemployed Americans called?

• Bonus Army Bases

• Rooseveltowns

• Hoovervilles

• Okies

Which economic factor contributed most directly to the start of the Great Depression?

• low worker productivity

• decreasing tariff rates

• buying stocks on margin

• high income taxes

What was the name of FDR's plans and programs designed to meet the needs and problems of the Great Depression?

• New Deal

• Social Security

• Great Deal

• the New Liberalism

What New Deal program was an answer to demands for a pension for the elderly as put forward by Dr. Francis Townsend?

• National Labor Relations

• Tennessee Valley Authority

• Works Progress Administration

• Social Security

In the mid-1930s, critics viewed Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to pack the Supreme Court with additional Justices as

• an ineffective response to the problems of the Great Depression

• a threat to representative government

• the beginning of socialism in the judicial system

• a violation of the principle of checks and balances

President Franklin D Roosevelt hoped his plan to “pack” the Supreme Court would

• prevent New Deal legislation from being declared unconstitutional

• discourage legal challenges to his foreign policy proposals

• end the debate on the limits of Presidential power

• weaken the Fair Labor Standards Act

Which of the following best describes the role of women during WWII?

• Women became front line soldiers and fought alongside men in battles.

• Women were paid more than men to do jobs in the factories while men were at war.

• Women were moved to concentration camps while men were off fighting in the war.

• Women were responsible for rationing and Victory Gardens and some took the place of men in factories.

Which battle was the turning point in the Pacific?

• Battle of Midway

• Invasion of France

• Pearl Harbor

• Invasion of Poland

He was critical of FDR because he believed rich Americans should “Share their Wealth” with the poor?

• Herbert Hoover

• A. Phillip Randolph

• Huey Long

• Eugene Debs