Great Depression/New Deal Test Review 2023-24

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

• Many farmers were forced to leave the Great Plains.
• Unemployment decreased gradually.
• Many homes long the Mississippi River were flooded.
• Hoover was re-elected as president.

Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Great Depression?

• Over speculation on stocks using borrowed money

• over production of manufactured goods

• Unpaid debts from fighting World War I

• Too much debt from buying goods on installment plans

What role did the Federal Reserve play in causing the Great Depression?

• It loaned money to closed banks and businesses
• It over speculated in the Stock Market with borrowed money

• It prevented the banking system from collapsing
• It failed to prevent the banking system collapse

What did the following factors contribute to?

Large numbers of banks and businesses failed • Large numbers of people were homeless and hungry • Farmers’ incomes fell to low levels

• Reconstruction

• Great Depression

• Great Migration

• Segregation

The photograph best illustrates which impact of the Great Depression upon Americans

• Large numbers of people were, hungry and unemployed

• Workers were able to afford luxury items

• banks were seizing property for failure to pay

• Workers' income rose to high levels

People who could no longer afford to live in their homes were forced to live in cardboard shacks that they build in public parks. What were these shacks called?

• Shantyshacks

• Tenement Housing

• Town Homes

• Hoovervilles

On what day did the "bottom fall out" of the stock market becoming one of the leading causes of the Great Depression?

• September 29, 1929

• October 29, 1929

• January 21, 2019

• November 29, 1929

This act backfired and caused a trade war.

• Homestead Act

• Income Tax Act

• Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act

• None of the above

Which of the following was a serious problem during the Great Depression?

• low prices

• buying on margin

• high unemployment

• business consolidation

What caused many farmers to foreclose on their farms in the 1930s?

• Growing too few crops

• Overproduction of crops and costs of machines

• Expensive land and not enough workers

• The Wall Street Crash