US History Final Exam Review

Shantytowns were often called “Hoovervilles”. Why?

• many people blamed President Hoover for the Great Depression
• many people loved President Hoover so they named their neighborhoods for him
• people were proud to be an American
• people lived in a city called Hoover 

Which of the following is the full title of what we may refer to as the CCC?

• Corporation Conserved Citizens
• Civilian Conservation Corps
• Civilian Conservations Center
• Center Counter Civilians

What were president Roosevelt’s three goals for the programs of New Deal?

• review, resend, reject
• encourage, enlighten, elevate
• relief, recovery, reform
• review, relief, relax

When banks failed during the Great Depression and many Americans lost their money,

• (a)  the government gave all homeless people free houses.
• only people who had invested in the stock market could pay for food
• (a)  people in France and Britain sent donations of food and money
• (a)  people bought fewer goods and factory workers lost their jobs

How did the Agricultural Adjustment Administration try to help farmers?

• by increasing competition among farmers
• by reducing production to raise crop prices
• by asking banks to lower interest rates for farmers
• by increasing production to boost crop surpluses

Which of the following statements BEST describes what happened on Black Tuesday?

• Stock prices fell and the stock market crashed.
• Bank runs forced many banks to close their doors.
• Federal troops attacked the Bonus Army marchers.
• The Supreme Court ruled that the NRA was unconstitutional.

New Deal program tasked with providing electricity to the people through dams and other means.

• Works Progress Administration
• Tennessee Valley Authority
• Tennessee Valley Electrical Organization
• Civilian Conservation Corps

To try to correct the problem shown in the cartoon, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed

• raising the salaries of federal justices.

• reducing the Supreme Court’s use of judicial review.

• exercising his veto power over Supreme Court decisions.

• increasing the number of justices on the Supreme Court.

A major difference between the philosophies of President Herbert Hoover and President Franklin D. Roosevelt in responding to the Great Depression is that Roosevelt

• wanted to rely on private charities to provide assistance
• stressed the need for individual rugged individualism
• supported direct relief to people out of work
• thought the government should not be involved in economic reform

Based on the cartoon, how did President Roosevelt want to ease the Great Depression?

• by expanding the role of government in citizens’ lives
• by expanding the authority of legislative representatives
• by regulating the stock purchases by individual investors
• by restricting the spending by government on domestic projects