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WorksheetsChapter 6
Total questions: 104
Worksheet time: 52mins
The crash of the stock market was known as Black ______:
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
When banks offered pennies on the dollar to it's members before it went out of business;
Business cycle
Bank run
Investment counceling
Penny auction
When the market is up for a long period of time:
Business cycle
Bull Market
Bear Market
When the market is down for a long period of time:
Business cycle
Bull Market
Bear Market
This is determined by dividing the number of available workers by full-time workers:
PE Ratio
S & P Index
Unemployment rate
Stock price
Highest rate of unemployment ever reached in the U.S. by 1932:
10%
15%
20%
25%
Homeless lived in shanties called:
Hoover farm
Hoover blanket
Hoover ville
Hoover flag
This was a three year event that led to soil blowing away and farmers going bankrupt:
Blizzard
Dust Bowl
Business cycle
Drought
They ended up homeless when families couldn't take care of them:
Men
Women
Teenagers
Old people
Ford fired them:
Women
Men
African-Americans
Mexican-Americans
They rode the rails:
Hobos
Doctors
Socialists
Army
This Amendment changed Innauguration Day to January 20:
19
20
21
22
This Amendment legalized alcohol and ended prohibition:
19
20
21
22
Building built in NYC that became the tallest building in the world:
World Trade Center
Sears Tower
Empire State Building
Transamerica Pyramid
He ran the most well-known soup kitchen for African-Americans in Harlem
Father DIvine
Joe Lewis
Malcolm X
Marcus Garvey
This crime increased against African-Americans:
Racism
Discrimination
Lynching
Moving
This provided hydroelectic power to five western states
Grand Coulee Dam
Hoover Dam
Roosevelt Dam
Independence Dam
This act designed to help business actually doubled unemployment:
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Hoover Dam
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Agricultural Marketing Act
This act was supposed to bail out big businesses:
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Hoover Dam
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Agricultural Marketing Act
This act was designed to make payments to farmers to cover their losses:
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Hoover Dam
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Agricultural Marketing Act
This program was Hoover's most successful program:
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Hoover Dam
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Agricultural Marketing Act
Hoover's plan to help end the Great Depression:
Old Deal
Voluntary Program
Mandatory Program
Industrial Workers of the World
They demanded their pensions now but Hoover instead sent the army to remove them:
U.S. Steel and Coal Strikes
Bonus Army
Hoover Dam
Soviet Ark
He won the election of 1932:
Al Smith
Herbert Hoover
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Alf Landon
His slogan was "Happy Days are Here Again:
Al Smith
Herbert Hoover
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Alf Landon
Many Americans moved here:
Cities
Suburbs
Soviet Union
Canada
Many homeless people who went to California looking for work were called:
Arkies
Okies
Sooners
Jayhawkers
An economic theory that said government should help by massive spending programs based on the works of an English economist:
John Maynard Keynes
Thomas Malthus
Frederick Jackson Turner
Automaker who became the enemy of labor:
Babe Ruth
Henry Ford
Charles Lindbergh
Al Capone
Which was NOT a cause of the Dust Bowl?
overproduction
drought
hard frost
high winds
When goods became scarce and prices became inflated:
business cycle
Dust Bowl
Stock market speculation
Mergers
Which was NOT a cause of the Great Depression?
Crash of the Stock Market
Government rules/regulation not enforced
Stock Market speculation
Uneven prosperity
They did NOT experience violence and prejudice during the Great Depression:
women
African-Americans
Asian-Americans
Protestants
This political party gained members in the early parts of the Great Depression
Democrats
Republicans
Communist
Libertarian
The Agricultural Marketing Act failed because it encouraged:
violence
lynching
overproduction
spending
The Great Depression affected:
the United States
Europe
Latin America
The entire world
Henry Ford fired all:
African-Americans
Immigrants
Married women
southerners
The profession most likely to be dominated by women:
Doctor
Domestic
Cooks
Accounting
Homelessness was caused by:
Increasing needs for housing for immigrants
High interest rates discouraged home ownership
Dust Bowl
Loss of jobs by workers
Most people who lived during the Depression tended to have a lifelong distrust of:
Saving money
Government
banks
minorities and immigrants
Movies and humor were used to:
Recruit members for the Socialist party
Provide an escape from the outside world
Employment for homeless vagrants
Sell Herbert Hoover's Voluntary Program
They suffered the most from the Great Depression
Urban banks
Farmers
Corporations
Investors and inventors
Hoover planned to end the Depression by:
Lowering tariffs
Cutting government regulation
Encouraging businesses and people to contribute to relief programs
Massive spending on government programs
General MacArthur's violent removal of the Bonus Army led to:
Herbert Hoover winning the presidency
Franklin D. Roosevelt winning the presidency
Patriotic renewal in America
Increased support of veterans for Hoover's Voluntary Program
Herbert Hoover attempted to end the Depression by:
Being optimistic
Trying new ideas to spark the economy
Arrests and deportations of dangerous radicals
Use of police and vigilanted groups to enforce the law
When Black Tuesday occured:
People scrambled to sell all of their stocks
Corporate profits went down and then raised to record levels
Hoover asked banks to offer relief
Investors made record profits
What was debt moritorium?
Hoover's attempt to stop farm forclosures
Hoover's attempt to get European debtors to pay up
Lowering of the corporated tax rate in the U.S.
Passage of the Hawley-Smoot tariff
The failure of Europe's economies caused:
Corporate profits of U.S. industries to rise
Massive bank failures in the U.S.
The rise of Latin American economies
Rise of extremists politicians in Europe.
This caused the collapse of International trade and unemployment to double in the U.S. :
The collapse of the Stock Market
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Suspension of debts by Hoover's Debt Moratorium
When banks failed throughout the U.S. :
Hoover suspended debt payments for one year
Women left their families
Hoovervilles appeared all over the country
A massive relief program started for Americans
FDR's Plan to get Americans working again by providing jobs was called:
First New Deal
Second New Deal
FDR's Plan to redistribute the wealth in America was called:
First New Deal
Second New Deal
This program provided flood control and electricty to the South:
TVA
SEC
PWA
CCC
They were all excluded from New Deal programs EXCEPT:
Women
African-Americans
Men
They manipulate people by using half-truths, lies and deception:
Conservatives
Liberals
Demogugues
Moderates
FDR closed this industry before he began his presidency while he reorganized them:
Housing
Military
Stock Market
Banks
This organization paid farmers not to grow or grow certain crops:
TVA
AAA
CCC
FDIC
This organization insures deposits in the banks up to $250,000:
TVA
AAA
CCC
FDIC
Auto workers used this method of strike to get recognition of their union:
Violent
Petition
Sit down
Teach in
Senator from Louisiana who advocated taking money from the rich and giving it to the poor:
Frances Townshend
Charles Coughlin
Upton Sinclair
Huey Long
Catholic priest from Detroit who praised Hitler and blamed the Depression on Jews:
Frances Townshend
Charles Coughlin
Upton Sinclair
Huey Long
This amendment end Prohibiton and legalized alcohol once more:
19th
20th
21st
22nd
Famous writer who wrote about the Great Depression:
Upton Sinclair
John Steinback
Ernest Hemmingway
Charles Coughlin
Group of people who advised FDR on important ideas:
Blue divide
Brain Trust
Military industrial complex
Kitchen Cabinet
This act legalized the right of collective bargaining and gave unions the legal right to exist
Wagner
Townsend
Liberty
Glass-Steagall
This act created FDIC and regulated the financial industryt
Wagner
Townsend
Liberty
Glass-Steagall
Which is not a theme of Great Depression movies?
Overcoming adversity
Comedy
Drama
Good over evil
This movie is a Great Depression era movie:
Jazz Singer
Wizard of Oz
Home Alone
East of Eden
They accused FDR's programs of being Bolshevik
American Liberty League
Empire for LIberty
EPIC
Share our Wealth
FDR appointed this woman as the Secretary of Labor. She was the first woman appointed to a president's cabinet:
Frances Perkins
Eleanor Roosevelt
Judy Garland
Alice Paul
This New Deal agaency gave money to artists:
TVA
WPA
CCC
NYA
The idea of defecit spending was the work of this economist:
John Maynard Keynes
Frances Townshend
Andrew Mellon
Herbert Hoover
This politcal party is identifed as being on the right:
Sociatist
Republican
Democrat
Green
This politcal party is identifed as being on the left:
Sociatist
Republican
Democrat
Green
He ran against FDR in 1936 and lost in a landslide:
Herbert Hoover
Alf Landon
Wendall Wilkie
Charles Lindberg
This agency was in charge of industrial production:
TVA
CCC
NRA
SEC
This act raised taxes on millionaires to 98%
Wealth Tax Act
Social Security Act
Emergency Bank Act
Wagner Act
This program provides elderly pensions, disablity and unemployment insurance:
Social Security
Revenue Act
American Liberty League
Medicare
This provides emergency funds in the event of a natural disaster to rebuild homes, jobs and cities:
FERA
TVA
FHA
REA
This regulates the stock market, banking industry and financial services:
FHA
SEC
EBA
FDIC
Once the hero of the working class, by the 1930s, he became the enemy of labor:
Henry Ford
Charles Lindberg
Al Capone
Babe Ruth
In the first hundred days. a President has one hundred days to do:
nothing
something good
change the world
get their team appointed
This act requires a person who sells financial products to disclose all information to a buyer:
Godl Standard
Federal Securities Act
Glass-Steagall Act
Wagner Act
In 1933, FDR took the dollar off of this standard:
Silver
Gold
Poors
Platinum
The CCC, CWA and PWA were created for this purpose:
Jobs
Redistribution of wealth
Bank security
Regulation of stocks and bonds.
Priming the pump means:
Doing something to speed up an action
Doing somehting to stop an action
Doing something to slow down an action
Doing something to interfere with an action
To make his economic program work, FDR needed to get this from the American public
Belief
Trust
Money
Attention
FDR's fireside chats used this medium to communicate to the American public:
Newspapers
Television
Radio
Telegraphs
FDR tried to make changes by raising the number serving and instituting a mandatory retirement age to this branch:
U.S. Congress
Supreme Court
President
Vice President
FDR attempted to manipulate the Supreme Court by getting more of his supporters on using a method called:
Packing
Mandating
Demogogue
Redistributing
This program aimed jobs at young people:
TVA
WPA
NYA
SEC
This program built roads and bridges. It built the tunnel at the Toledo Zoo.
FERA
TVA
CWA
NWO
This program worked with industry. It was later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court
FERA
NRA
TVA
NYA
This program worked to create job programs for youth aged 16-25.
FERA
NRA
TVA
NYA
This worked to run electric power, build power plants and lines to rural areas.
CCC
NYA
REA
SSA
This program still exists. It provides loans to first time home owners.
NYA
FERA
FHA
CCC
This provided jobs on conservation programs. Only single men were allowed to work on this program:
NYA
CCC
TVA
FDIC
This paid farmers to raise or lower output of certain crops:
CCC
AAA
TVA
NYA
This term means is a benefit given to an individual, business, or institution, usually by the government.
Deficit
Deposit
Subsidy
Payout
On average this crime happened to at least one African-American per year from 1877-1941:
Lynching
Segregation
Promotion
Racism
They thought the New Deal did too much and didn't believe the government should have such power:
American Liberty League
End Poverty in California
National Union for Social Justice
Share our Wealth
The name of Huey Long's program to take the resources of the rich and redistribute it to the masses:
American Liberty League
End Poverty in California
National Union for Social Justice
Share our Wealth
Many conservatives opposed the WPA because they believed a lot of artists belonged to this political organization:
Democrats
Republicans
Anarchists
Communists
Both World Wars and the Great Depression have created this issue that affects the country today:
National debt
High interest rates
Lack of health care access
Illegal Immigration
