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1920's - Great Depression - 2018 Finals Review

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Illegal leasing of federal reserves to private companies.

a)

Tea Pot Dome Scandal

b)

Iran-Contra Scandal

c)

Great Depression

d)

Black Monday

2.

The Hawley Smoot Tariff....

a)

Led to countries putting revenge tariffs on American goods

b)

Hurt American farmers

c)

Contributed to agricultural depression

d)

Helped American farmers sell their products over foreign goods

3.

Dust bowl refugees.

a)

Okies

b)

Grapes of Wrath

c)

Stormies

d)

Oakland Migrants

4.

How many people fled the plains due to the Dust Bowl?

a)

10,000

b)

8,000

c)

25,000

d)

14,500

5.

Fear of communists following WWI and the Bolshevik Revolution.

a)

McCarthyism

b)

Silent Generation

c)

Palmer Raids

d)

Red Scare

6.

Unemployment rate in 1933.

a)

24.9%

b)

35.5%

c)

16.9%

d)

14.1%

7.

Idea that if you pour money into the top of the financial pyramid, it will flow down to the impoverished sectors of society.

a)

Reaganomics

b)

Peace through Strength

c)

Volunteerism

d)

Trickle Down Economics

8.

Amendment which established prohibition was the _____ and the _____ amendment ended it.

a)

19th; 21st

b)

18th; 20th

c)

19th; 20th

d)

18th; 21st

9.

KKK targeted which group(s)?

a)

Jews, minorities, blacks

b)

African Americans, Jews, Whites

c)

African Americans, Minorities, Whites

d)

Minorities, Immigrants, whites

10.

T or F: The Great Depression was a worldwide phenomenon, but no country was hit nearly as hard as the U.S.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

End consumption of alcohol.

a)

Prohibition

b)

Suffrage

c)

Abstinence

d)

Inhibiiton

12.

Radio broadcasts made by ____ were called ____.

a)

FDR; Fireside Chats

b)

FDR; Radio Chats

c)

Truman; Radio Chats

d)

Hoover; Fireside Chats

13.

3 goals of FDR's New Deal were....

a)

Relief, Recovery, Rewrite

b)

Relief, Reform, Redo

c)

Relief, Recovery, Reform

d)

Recovery, Relief, Reassess

14.

T or F: FDR's New Deal Programs worked to help the elderly, unemployed, single mothers, and those without electricity.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

T or F: FDR's New Deal programs had very little opposition.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

The ______ insured deposits up to ____.

a)

FDIC; $5,000.00

b)

FDIC; $10,000.00

c)

WPA; $5,000.00

d)

CCC; $7,500.00

17.

WWI vets who marched on D.C. to demand their bonuses sooner than 1945.

a)

Hoover Army

b)

Bonus Army

c)

Hoover Marchers

d)

Capital Army

18.

First president to elect a female to his cabinet.

a)

Truman

b)

FDR

c)

Hoover

d)

Coolidge

19.

President who was sworn into office by his father

a)

Harding

b)

Coolidge

c)

FDR

d)

Hoover

20.

Market that is on the rise; prices steadily increasing.

a)

Bull Market

b)

Bear Market

c)

Goat Market

d)

Rhino Market

21.

Which is not true regarding the Great Depression?

a)

The banks didn't have enough money on hand to give people their savings

b)

The Great Depression did not affect the wealthy

c)

The Great Depression hurt people all over the U.S.

d)

The Great Depression was made worse due to the drought

22.

Shantytown of homeless people as a result of the Great Depression.

a)

Hoovercity

b)

Hooverwagon

c)

Hooverflag

d)

Hooverville

23.

President not reelected because of his slow response to the depression and his treatment of the Bonus Army.

a)

Roosevelt

b)

Coolidge

c)

Harding

d)

Hoover

24.

Only president to be elected to 4 terms.

a)

Truman

b)

JFK

c)

FDR

d)

Coolidge

25.

What was the court packing incident?

a)

FDR tried to add New Deal supportive justices to Supreme Court

b)

FDR tried to push anti-New Deal Congressmen out of office

c)

FDR loaded the Supreme Court with pro-New Deal justices

d)

FDR fired each Supreme Court justice and replaced them with supporters of himself