Unit 9 Review

Which BEST explains how the expansion of industrial productive capacity in the United States contributed to the beginning of the Great Depression?

• Companies couldn't find workers because Americans were lazy

• Women left the workforce so there was nobody to work

• The financial instability of Europe after World War I meant a reduction in the number of markets able to consume products Americans did not buy.

• Consumers saved their money instead of spending it

Why did select conservatives challenge Roosevelt’s leadership and New Deal programs?

• Democrats tried to spread information that damaged FDR's reputation

• Business leaders and anti-New Deal politicians disliked that Roosevelt was borrowing money to pay for his programs, adding to the national deficit.

• Huey Long's followers didn't like the way Roosevelt treated workers

• Business leaders wanted Roosevelt to challenge the Supreme Court's rulings

Why did President Franklin Roosevelt believe that a second New Deal was needed when he began his second term as president?

• because the first New Deal had been a big success with the American population and he wanted to keep his popularity high with voting citizens

• because he planned to bring out a New Deal for each of the four terms he planned to serve

• because the first New Deal did not address the needs of one-third of the American population including women, elderly, blacks, teachers, etc.

• because funding from Congress ran out at the end of his first term, and he needed more money for the existing programs.

The image depicts citizens lining up outside the Peoples Wayne County Bank in 1932 to withdraw their savings. The banks during this time were closing during the Great Depression due to poor business investments, leaving citizens fearful that they would lose their savings.

Which statement BEST explains how Roosevelt tried to restore the public’s lost confidence in the banking system and in the American government?

• Roosevelt implemented the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

• Roosevelt implemented the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).

• Roosevelt signed an executive order to allow the government to control the United States’ economic system.

• Roosevelt signed an executive order to close United States banks until their solvency could be determined.

Which of the following MOST convinced President Franklin D. Roosevelt to integrate the defense industries in 1941?

• The need for soldiers

• A Philip Randolph's speech

• The fear of a race riot in Washington, D.C.

• The fear of the Nazis winning the war

Which of the following MOST contributed to the success of American automobile manufacturers in converting to production of military transports?

• America had blacksmiths

• Federal investments in the military

• The efficiency of the assembly line

• Military oversight of production facilities

What contributed MOST to the adoption of the policy of island-hopping in the Pacific Theater of World War II?

• The expansion of U.S. industry

• A lack of infrastructure that made it difficult to transport and store supplies

• The inability to store supplies on ships because of explosions

• The decision to focus on the Pacific Theatre instead of Europe

Why was the Wagner Act important in labor relations?

• It protected the rights of workers to organize and forbade companies from retaliation against anyone for being a union member.

• It allowed a union member working for a company to drop out of the union if he or she so chose and to continue to work as a non-union member.

• It allowed President Roosevelt to declare any shop to be a union shop, so everyone working for that company would have to join the union or lose the job.

• It dictated that every business that employs workers must have at least fifty percent of its workforce as part of a union or the company will lose its government benefits.

Who was “Rosie the Riveter,” and what was her role in World War II?

• Rosie the Riveter was a German spy who infiltrated American society to pretend to be a riveter in a munitions plant while spreading German propaganda throughout the United States.

• Rosie the Riveter was a woman named Rosie Fernandez from San Diego, California, who worked in an aircraft plant as a riveter of bolts to the wing of an aircraft and became the face of women entering the work force and contributing to the war effort.

• Rosie the Riveter was a fictional woman worker, a riveter in an aircraft manufacturing plant, created to appeal to women’s sense of patriotism.

• Rosie the Riveter was a propaganda artist who was commissioned by the Japanese to present herself on radio programs as an American who sympathizes with Japanese Americans who are being interned.

Which of the following BEST explains what constituted the Lend Lease program during World War II?

• Germany sent money to its partners in Italy

• The allies sent aid to the Soviet Union in exchange for naval bases

• America sent aid to Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and China in exchange for leases to army and navy bases in Allied territory

• America leased a naval base from Japan