Chapter 26 test review

What was a result of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?

• Foreign companies made tons of money off the US

• The US asked for loans from European countries

• Foreign nations increased their tariffs in response, leading to a decline in trade

• European nations prospered while US tanked

The Tennessee Valley Authority was successful in achieving its mission.

• True

• False

What caused the Dust Bowl?

• Farmers planting too much grass.

• The completion of the Hoover Dam

• Migration from California to Texas

• Drought & bad farming practices

Established large-scale national works program to create jobs. Employed men and women to build hospitals, schools, parks, and airport; gave work to artists, writers, and musicians (1935)

• Work Progress Administration (WPA)

• Fairl albor Standards Act (FLSA)

• Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

• Tennesse Valley Authority (TVA)

Which president was in office during the beginning of the Great Depression but didn’t do much to help Americans?

• Herbert Hoover

• Woodrow Wilson

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Harry Truman

The Bonus Army was made up of ________.

• Civil War veterans

• World War I veterans

• Spanish American War veterans

• World War II veterans

How did Hoover handle the Bonus Army?

• The US Army was sent in

• The protesters gave up

• He personally paid them their bonus

• Congress and the veterans compromised

This put hundreds of thousands of young, single men to work building roads, developing parks, planting trees, and helping in soil-erosion & flood-control projects

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Works Progress Administration

• Federal Emergency Relief Administration

• Federal Art Project

Established to provide states with funds to help the needy

• Federal Emergency Relief Act

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

• Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Buying stocks ​ ​ (a)   , when people borrowed money to buy stocks they could not afford, was a cause of the Great Depression.

• on margin
• on militarism
• overproduction
• in good standing
• cash only