Test Early Standard 5

What 2 statistics dropped as a result of the Great Depression?

• Bank closings
• Marriages
• Unemployment
• Birth rates

Which of the following are characteristics of the Great Depression (Choose 3 that apply)

• Prosperity
• Rising crop value
• Low wages
• High consumer debt (such as owing money on credit)
• Unemployment

Who was elected on the promises of relief, recovery, and reform?

• Herbert Hoover
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)
• Rutherford B. Hayes

How did the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and other New Deal programs reflect social attitudes of the time?

• Most offered no help to men
• Most helped only elite landowners
• Most were racially integrated
• Most were still racially segregated and did not give equal opportunities to African Americans

The Social Security Act (SSA) was designed for what purpose?

• to oversee the creation of a system of banking reforms that would prevent future bank failures
• to provide government protections for the elderly (retirement), the unemployed, and the disabled
• to assist farmers by providing them with free milking machines and water pumps
• to build schools, airports, libraries, and bridges so that people could easily join together

What impact did the general textile strike, such as the strike at Honea Path, have on labor unions in South Carolina?

• It allowed more mills to have more labor unions.
• It allowed for more unions to collectively bargain.
• It forced the state to create a department to oversee the strikes in the Lowcountry
• It was ultimately unsuccessful and intensified anti-union sentiment, which continues to the present.

True or False: The New Deal ON ITS OWN led to the end of the Great Depression

• True
• False

Which New Deal project employed over 50,000 South Carolinians to work in state parks and helped build Myrtle Beach State Park?

• WPA
• CCC
• SSA
• FDIC

What was the AAA?

• Put young men to work in the nation’s parks where they lived in camps, and sent most of their money home to their families
• The project built dams on the Santee and Cooper Rivers, which created Lakes Moultrie and Marion.
• Created in response to the collapse of the farming industry throughout the 1920s. Controlled the supply of seven “basic crops” and paid farmers not to farm so that overproduction stopped
• The measure was created to prevent future depressions and help provide assistance to the elderly, orphaned, disabled, and unemployed.

What is the purpose of the FDIC?

• Created to protect bank depositors and ensure a level of trust in the American banking system (insured your bank deposit in case the bank failed)
• Built highways, airports, bridges, hospitals, and schools.
• Put young men to work in the nation’s parks where they lived in camps, and sent most of their money home to their families.
• Brought electricity to farms and rural areas of South Carolina.