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Great Depression/Pre-Civil War #2

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The period from March 9th to June 16th 1933 that Congress passed more than 15 major pieces of New Deal legislation.

a)

The Legislation Days

b)

The Productive Hundred

c)

The Hundred Days

2.

Paying a small percentage of a stock’s price as a down payment and borrowing the rest.

a)

Pre-Credit

b)

Buying on Margin

c)

Margin Call

3.

At 726 feet high and 1,244 feet long it would be the world’s tallest dam and second largest.

a)

Boulder Dam

b)

Grand Coulee Dam

c)

Kensico Dam

4.

This region industrialized rapidly as factories turned out an ever increasing amount of products.

a)

The South

b)

The Midwest

c)

The North

5.

By the 1930’s people were calling shantytowns in American cities this.

a)

Depressionville

b)

Hoovervilles

c)

Dumpstervilles

6.

The name given to Kansas due it becoming a violent battlefield to make Kansas pro or anti-slavery was this.

a)

Fighting Kansas

b)

Angry Kansas

c)

Bleeding Kansas

7.

Making monthly payments with interest charged.

a)

Get It Now Plan

b)

Debt Later Plan

c)

Installment Plan

8.

In 1852, she published Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The novel gave the message that slavery was not just a political contest but also a great moral struggle

a)

Sojourner Truth

b)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

c)

Harriet Tubman

9.

The period from 1929 to 1940 in which the economy fell and unemployment skyrocketed.

a)

The Panic of 1929

b)

The Great Depression

c)

World War II

10.

Groups formed specifically to supply rifles, animals, seed and farm equipment to anti-slavery migrants

a)

Free State Corporations

b)

Emigrant Aid Societies

c)

Abolitionist Forums

11.

Despite all the government programs, the Great Depression didn’t end until this started

a)

The Dust Bowl

b)

The Third New Deal

c)

World War II

12.

The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, In the Dred Scott case, he ruled that slaves did not have the same rights as citizens.

a)

Dred Scott

b)

Millard Fillmore

c)

Roger B. Taney

13.

This group of between 10,000 and 20,000 WWI veterans and their families marched on Washington D.C. in the spring of 1932.

a)

The Angry Vets

b)

The Bonus Army

c)

The American Vets for Freedom Club

14.

This region remained a mostly rural (farming) society consisting mostly of plantations and small farms.

a)

The South

b)

The Midwest

c)

The North

15.

Angered with Senator Sumners making fun of his Uncle’’s speech and Pro-Slavery beliefs, he walked into the Senate chambers and struck Sumner on his head over and over again with a cane until the cane broke

a)

Andrew Butler

b)

Preston Brooks

c)

Charles Sumner

16.

A slave from Missouri, he claimed that he was free because he had lived in a free territory for several years

a)

Dred Scott

b)

Millard Fillmore

c)

Roger B. Taney

17.

Homeless people called the newspapers they wrapped themselves in to stay warm this

a)

Poor Man's Quilts

b)

Depression Blankets

c)

Hoover Blankets

18.

The right of citizens of a territory to vote on whether or not they wanted slavery in their territory.

a)

Slave Picking

b)

Manifest Destiny

c)

Popular Sovereignty

19.

FDR’s set of policies for his administration to combat the Great Depression.

a)

Happy Days Are Here Again

b)

The New Deal

c)

The Great Plan

20.

He was elected President of the Confederate States of America.

a)

Robert E. Lee

b)

Jefferson Davis

c)

Ulysses S. Grant

21.

A term originally referring to people from Oklahoma but later used to refer to all of the western moving people

a)

Hillbillies

b)

Dusters

c)

Okies

22.

Douglas’s response to the question of whether or not settlers could vote to exclude slavery before a territory became a student became known as this.

a)

Freeport Doctrine

b)

Fairness Doctrine

c)

Pro-Sovereignty Rules

23.

A period of rising stock prices.

a)

Bear Market

b)

Peak Market

c)

Bull Market

24.

He led the group of Marines who stormed the engine house where Brown and his men had barricaded themselves.

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Robert E. Lee

c)

Ulysses S. Grant

25.

A Known as FDR, he won the 1932 Presidential election.

a)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

b)

Francis David Rubinstein

c)

Herbert Hoover