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Worksheets1920s, Great Depression , & New Deal
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 10mins
This summary describes a major banking reform.
During the first years of the Great Depression, banks failed quickly. In 1933 Congress passed the Glass-Steagall Banking Act, which protected consumers by prohibiting banks from engaging in both commercial banking, which involved making loans, and investment banking, which involved brokering sales of stocks and bonds. Which statement provides an analysis of how the Glass-Steagall Act affected the economic system of the United States?
It reduced the number of banks that qualified for government bailouts.
The act encouraged competition among financial institutions for investments.
The act increased the level of government regulation of private businesses.
It slowed economic growth by discouraging consumers from investing in stock
How did the persistence of poverty impact the creation of the agencies above?
Massive loss of jobs and income required government intervention to stabilize employment
Massive loss of government power required charities to create new organizations to handle poverty.
Growth in government caused GDP to decline and as a result forced the states to provide relief.
Growth in the income gap forced the government to create agencies to spread the wealth around.
This table shows changes in union membership from 1930 to 1940.
What was a cause of the change shown in this table?
The creation of the Social Security Administration
A decline in industrial productivity
The passage of the Wagner Act
A drop in job security
What did Franklin Roosevelt wish to achieve through deficit spending?
Job creation for the unemployed workers
Government ownership of the financial sector
Trade agreements with foreign countries
Government control of industrial production
Which criticism of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff is valid?
High tariff rates benefited foreign producers while harming business in the United States.
Products from the United States were affordable despite the legislation.
Availability of inexpensive foreign products harmed manufacturers in the United States.
High tariff rates in the United States deepened the worldwide depression.
The list below contains various government organizations and actions that came about during the 1930s.
*Securities and Exchange Commission
*National Recovery Administration
*Public Works Administration
*Glass-Steagall Act
Each of these organizations and congressional actions are evidence of which of the following?
An influence of Social Darwinism in policy decisions
A move towards deregulation of the economy
A movement towards laissez-faire economic policies
A departure from laissez-faire economic policies
During the early 1900s a Great Migration occurred as African Americans moved from Southern states to Northern cities.
Which push factor explains the information in the graph above?
Laws prohibiting discrimination in the North
Improved cultural opportunities in rural areas of the North
Desire to escape tenant farming poverty in the South
Wartime demand for skilled workers from the South
The image above is the result of what situation that emerged in the 1930s?
Conflict between different branches of government over whether or not to join foreign wars
A stronger relationship between the executive branch and judicial branch because of consensus on New Deal legislation
A perfect balance of power between the three branches of government
Conflict between different branches of government over the constitutionality of New Deal legislation
The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920’s was a period when African Americans
migrated to the West in search of land and jobs
used civil disobedience to fight segregation in the Armed Forces
left the United States in large numbers to settle in Nigeria
created noteworthy works of art and literature
Which events best support the image of the 1920’s as a decade of nativist sentiment?
the growth of the auto industry and the Teapot Dome Affair
the Scopes trial and the passage of women’s suffrage
the passage of the National Origins Act and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan
the Washington Naval Conference and the Kellogg-Briand Pact
“Public Ignores Prohibition Restrictions”
“Evolution and Creation Debated in Scopes Trial”
“Women Bring Change to the Industrial Workforce”
What do headlines such as these from the 1920s illustrate?
conflict between traditional and modern values
trend toward mass consumption of consumer goods
debate over the role of government in the economy
hostility of certain groups toward ethnic minorities
The popularity of escapist novels like John Steinbeck’s, The Grapes of Wrath, and movies during the Great Depression is evidence that
the greatest employment opportunities for the average person in the 1930’s were in the field of entertainment
American society did not try to solve the problems of the Great Depression
popular culture is shaped by economic and social conditions
the Great Depression was not really a time of economic distress
The Sherman Antitrust Act, the Social Security Act, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) are examples of
Federal laws designed to protect consumers from unsafe products
the Federal Government’s attempts to deregulate big business
the Federal Government’s response to changes in the economy
Federal laws designed to control spending
Which generalization can best be drawn from the experiment with national Prohibition (1919–1933)?
People will sacrifice willingly for the common good
social attitudes can make laws difficult to enforce
Morality can be legislated successfully
Americans resent higher taxes
The New Deal changed political thinking in the United States because it supported the idea that the
rights of workers are less important than the interests of business
Supreme Court should have an important role to play in the economy
government should become more involved in the social and economic life of the people
president’s foreign policy is more important than his domestic policy
