The Great Depression Quiz 2

Which group of Americans benefitted the least from the economic changes of the 1920s?

• Unionized manufacturing laborers

• Southern farmers

• Northern bankers

• Female educators

What was the Bonus Army?

• Bankers who were criticized in the press after receiving massive bonuses during the Great Depression

• The men under the command of General Douglas MacArthur who forcibly cleared the Hooverville that had formed in Washington D.C.

• Hoover’s team of financial advisers who designed the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

• A group of World War I veterans who petitioned the government to make an early payment on bonuses scheduled to be released in 1945

Upon assuming office, how did Roosevelt respond to the collapsing bank system?

• Waited for the Glass-Steagall Banking Act to take effect in June and then enforced new regulation

• Declared a bank holiday and then pushed through the Emergency Banking Act

• Closed all banks until the economy recovered from the Great Depression

• Invested major public funds on the day after his inauguration to stabilize the banking systems

Roosevelt tried to create relief for American farmers through the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA). What did the AAA do?

• Aimed to raise the prices of agricultural commodities by offering cash incentives to voluntarily limit farm production, thereby increasing prices

• Banned the development of certain kinds of low yield, high intensity crops that contributed to the ecological catastrophe of the Dust Bowl

• Dropped dozens of tariffs on low cost foreign agricultural products in an attempt to lower the price of food for American consumers

• Subsidized agricultural colleges to conduct research on improved agricultural techniques

What did the Works Progress Administration do?

• Gave grants to private corporations to build new manufacturing plants, thereby creating new manufacturing jobs

• Put unemployed men and women to work on projects designed and proposed by local governments

• Coordinated employment through a new bureaucracy in attempt to discourage racial discrimination in hiring

• Dismantled the first public housing program in favor of privatizing low income housing

What was the most dramatic result of the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act?

• The suspension of a minimum wage in attempt to encourage hiring

• Created a vast physical infrastructure of roads, highways, and rail lines to fuel economic development in the South

• Suspended collective bargaining rights for unions in industries deemed essential for national security

• The creation of a national minimum wage

Louisiana Senator Huey long criticized Roosevelt's New Deal programs for ________.

• Expanding the power of the presidency over the control of Congress

• Failing to redistribute wealth

• Damaging American business through high taxes

• Falling into a Jewish plot to destroy the United States