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Chapter 6

Total questions: 104

Worksheet time: 52mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The crash of the stock market was known as Black ______:

a)

Monday

b)

Tuesday

c)

Wednesday

d)

Thursday

2.

When banks offered pennies on the dollar to it's members before it went out of business;

a)

Business cycle

b)

Bank run

c)

Investment counceling

d)

Penny auction

3.

When the market is up for a long period of time:

a)

Business cycle

b)

Bull Market

c)

Bear Market

4.

When the market is down for a long period of time:

a)

Business cycle

b)

Bull Market

c)

Bear Market

5.

This is determined by dividing the number of available workers by full-time workers:

a)

PE Ratio

b)

S & P Index

c)

Unemployment rate

d)

Stock price

6.

Highest rate of unemployment ever reached in the U.S. by 1932:

a)

10%

b)

15%

c)

20%

d)

25%

7.

Homeless lived in shanties called:

a)

Hoover farm

b)

Hoover blanket

c)

Hoover ville

d)

Hoover flag

8.

This was a three year event that led to soil blowing away and farmers going bankrupt:

a)

Blizzard

b)

Dust Bowl

c)

Business cycle

d)

Drought

9.

They ended up homeless when families couldn't take care of them:

a)

Men

b)

Women

c)

Teenagers

d)

Old people

10.

Ford fired them:

a)

Women

b)

Men

c)

African-Americans

d)

Mexican-Americans

11.

They rode the rails:

a)

Hobos

b)

Doctors

c)

Socialists

d)

Army

12.

This Amendment changed Innauguration Day to January 20:

a)

19

b)

20

c)

21

d)

22

13.

This Amendment legalized alcohol and ended prohibition:

a)

19

b)

20

c)

21

d)

22

14.

Building built in NYC that became the tallest building in the world:

a)

World Trade Center

b)

Sears Tower

c)

Empire State Building

d)

Transamerica Pyramid

15.

He ran the most well-known soup kitchen for African-Americans in Harlem

a)

Father DIvine

b)

Joe Lewis

c)

Malcolm X

d)

Marcus Garvey

16.

This crime increased against African-Americans:

a)

Racism

b)

Discrimination

c)

Lynching

d)

Moving

17.

This provided hydroelectic power to five western states

a)

Grand Coulee Dam

b)

Hoover Dam

c)

Roosevelt Dam

d)

Independence Dam

18.

This act designed to help business actually doubled unemployment:

a)

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

b)

Hoover Dam

c)

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

d)

Agricultural Marketing Act

19.

This act was supposed to bail out big businesses:

a)

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

b)

Hoover Dam

c)

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

d)

Agricultural Marketing Act

20.

This act was designed to make payments to farmers to cover their losses:

a)

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

b)

Hoover Dam

c)

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

d)

Agricultural Marketing Act

21.

This program was Hoover's most successful program:

a)

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

b)

Hoover Dam

c)

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

d)

Agricultural Marketing Act

22.

Hoover's plan to help end the Great Depression:

a)

Old Deal

b)

Voluntary Program

c)

Mandatory Program

d)

Industrial Workers of the World

23.

They demanded their pensions now but Hoover instead sent the army to remove them:

a)

U.S. Steel and Coal Strikes

b)

Bonus Army

c)

Hoover Dam

d)

Soviet Ark

24.

He won the election of 1932:

a)

Al Smith

b)

Herbert Hoover

c)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

d)

Alf Landon

25.

His slogan was "Happy Days are Here Again:

a)

Al Smith

b)

Herbert Hoover

c)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

d)

Alf Landon

26.

Many Americans moved here:

a)

Cities

b)

Suburbs

c)

Soviet Union

d)

Canada

27.

Many homeless people who went to California looking for work were called:

a)

Arkies

b)

Okies

c)

Sooners

d)

Jayhawkers

28.

An economic theory that said government should help by massive spending programs based on the works of an English economist:

a)

John Maynard Keynes

b)

Thomas Malthus

c)

Frederick Jackson Turner

29.

Automaker who became the enemy of labor:

a)

Babe Ruth

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Charles Lindbergh

d)

Al Capone

30.

Which was NOT a cause of the Dust Bowl?

a)

overproduction

b)

drought

c)

hard frost

d)

high winds

31.

When goods became scarce and prices became inflated:

a)

business cycle

b)

Dust Bowl

c)

Stock market speculation

d)

Mergers

32.

Which was NOT a cause of the Great Depression?

a)

Crash of the Stock Market

b)

Government rules/regulation not enforced

c)

Stock Market speculation

d)

Uneven prosperity

33.

They did NOT experience violence and prejudice during the Great Depression:

a)

women

b)

African-Americans

c)

Asian-Americans

d)

Protestants

34.

This political party gained members in the early parts of the Great Depression

a)

Democrats

b)

Republicans

c)

Communist

d)

Libertarian

35.

The Agricultural Marketing Act failed because it encouraged:

a)

violence

b)

lynching

c)

overproduction

d)

spending

36.

The Great Depression affected:

a)

the United States

b)

Europe

c)

Latin America

d)

The entire world

37.

Henry Ford fired all:

a)

African-Americans

b)

Immigrants

c)

Married women

d)

southerners

38.

The profession most likely to be dominated by women:

a)

Doctor

b)

Domestic

c)

Cooks

d)

Accounting

39.

Homelessness was caused by:

a)

Increasing needs for housing for immigrants

b)

High interest rates discouraged home ownership

c)

Dust Bowl

d)

Loss of jobs by workers

40.

Most people who lived during the Depression tended to have a lifelong distrust of:

a)

Saving money

b)

Government

c)

banks

d)

minorities and immigrants

41.

Movies and humor were used to:

a)

Recruit members for the Socialist party

b)

Provide an escape from the outside world

c)

Employment for homeless vagrants

d)

Sell Herbert Hoover's Voluntary Program

42.

They suffered the most from the Great Depression

a)

Urban banks

b)

Farmers

c)

Corporations

d)

Investors and inventors

43.

Hoover planned to end the Depression by:

a)

Lowering tariffs

b)

Cutting government regulation

c)

Encouraging businesses and people to contribute to relief programs

d)

Massive spending on government programs

44.

General MacArthur's violent removal of the Bonus Army led to:

a)

Herbert Hoover winning the presidency

b)

Franklin D. Roosevelt winning the presidency

c)

Patriotic renewal in America

d)

Increased support of veterans for Hoover's Voluntary Program

45.

Herbert Hoover attempted to end the Depression by:

a)

Being optimistic

b)

Trying new ideas to spark the economy

c)

Arrests and deportations of dangerous radicals

d)

Use of police and vigilanted groups to enforce the law

46.

When Black Tuesday occured:

a)

People scrambled to sell all of their stocks

b)

Corporate profits went down and then raised to record levels

c)

Hoover asked banks to offer relief

d)

Investors made record profits

47.

What was debt moritorium?

a)

Hoover's attempt to stop farm forclosures

b)

Hoover's attempt to get European debtors to pay up

c)

Lowering of the corporated tax rate in the U.S.

d)

Passage of the Hawley-Smoot tariff

48.

The failure of Europe's economies caused:

a)

Corporate profits of U.S. industries to rise

b)

Massive bank failures in the U.S.

c)

The rise of Latin American economies

d)

Rise of extremists politicians in Europe.

49.

This caused the collapse of International trade and unemployment to double in the U.S. :

a)

The collapse of the Stock Market

b)

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

c)

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

d)

Suspension of debts by Hoover's Debt Moratorium

50.

When banks failed throughout the U.S. :

a)

Hoover suspended debt payments for one year

b)

Women left their families

c)

Hoovervilles appeared all over the country

d)

A massive relief program started for Americans

51.

FDR's Plan to get Americans working again by providing jobs was called:

a)

First New Deal

b)

Second New Deal

52.

FDR's Plan to redistribute the wealth in America was called:

a)

First New Deal

b)

Second New Deal

53.

This program provided flood control and electricty to the South:

a)

TVA

b)

SEC

c)

PWA

d)

CCC

54.

They were all excluded from New Deal programs EXCEPT:

a)

Women

b)

African-Americans

c)

Men

55.

They manipulate people by using half-truths, lies and deception:

a)

Conservatives

b)

Liberals

c)

Demogugues

d)

Moderates

56.

FDR closed this industry before he began his presidency while he reorganized them:

a)

Housing

b)

Military

c)

Stock Market

d)

Banks

57.

This organization paid farmers not to grow or grow certain crops:

a)

TVA

b)

AAA

c)

CCC

d)

FDIC

58.

This organization insures deposits in the banks up to $250,000:

a)

TVA

b)

AAA

c)

CCC

d)

FDIC

59.

Auto workers used this method of strike to get recognition of their union:

a)

Violent

b)

Petition

c)

Sit down

d)

Teach in

60.

Senator from Louisiana who advocated taking money from the rich and giving it to the poor:

a)

Frances Townshend

b)

Charles Coughlin

c)

Upton Sinclair

d)

Huey Long

61.

Catholic priest from Detroit who praised Hitler and blamed the Depression on Jews:

a)

Frances Townshend

b)

Charles Coughlin

c)

Upton Sinclair

d)

Huey Long

62.

This amendment end Prohibiton and legalized alcohol once more:

a)

19th

b)

20th

c)

21st

d)

22nd

63.

Famous writer who wrote about the Great Depression:

a)

Upton Sinclair

b)

John Steinback

c)

Ernest Hemmingway

d)

Charles Coughlin

64.

Group of people who advised FDR on important ideas:

a)

Blue divide

b)

Brain Trust

c)

Military industrial complex

d)

Kitchen Cabinet

65.

This act legalized the right of collective bargaining and gave unions the legal right to exist

a)

Wagner

b)

Townsend

c)

Liberty

d)

Glass-Steagall

66.

This act created FDIC and regulated the financial industryt

a)

Wagner

b)

Townsend

c)

Liberty

d)

Glass-Steagall

67.

Which is not a theme of Great Depression movies?

a)

Overcoming adversity

b)

Comedy

c)

Drama

d)

Good over evil

68.

This movie is a Great Depression era movie:

a)

Jazz Singer

b)

Wizard of Oz

c)

Home Alone

d)

East of Eden

69.

They accused FDR's programs of being Bolshevik

a)

American Liberty League

b)

Empire for LIberty

c)

EPIC

d)

Share our Wealth

70.

FDR appointed this woman as the Secretary of Labor. She was the first woman appointed to a president's cabinet:

a)

Frances Perkins

b)

Eleanor Roosevelt

c)

Judy Garland

d)

Alice Paul

71.

This New Deal agaency gave money to artists:

a)

TVA

b)

WPA

c)

CCC

d)

NYA

72.

The idea of defecit spending was the work of this economist:

a)

John Maynard Keynes

b)

Frances Townshend

c)

Andrew Mellon

d)

Herbert Hoover

73.

This politcal party is identifed as being on the right:

a)

Sociatist

b)

Republican

c)

Democrat

d)

Green

74.

This politcal party is identifed as being on the left:

a)

Sociatist

b)

Republican

c)

Democrat

d)

Green

75.

He ran against FDR in 1936 and lost in a landslide:

a)

Herbert Hoover

b)

Alf Landon

c)

Wendall Wilkie

d)

Charles Lindberg

76.

This agency was in charge of industrial production:

a)

TVA

b)

CCC

c)

NRA

d)

SEC

77.

This act raised taxes on millionaires to 98%

a)

Wealth Tax Act

b)

Social Security Act

c)

Emergency Bank Act

d)

Wagner Act

78.

This program provides elderly pensions, disablity and unemployment insurance:

a)

Social Security

b)

Revenue Act

c)

American Liberty League

d)

Medicare

79.

This provides emergency funds in the event of a natural disaster to rebuild homes, jobs and cities:

a)

FERA

b)

TVA

c)

FHA

d)

REA

80.

This regulates the stock market, banking industry and financial services:

a)

FHA

b)

SEC

c)

EBA

d)

FDIC

81.

Once the hero of the working class, by the 1930s, he became the enemy of labor:

a)

Henry Ford

b)

Charles Lindberg

c)

Al Capone

d)

Babe Ruth

82.

In the first hundred days. a President has one hundred days to do:

a)

nothing

b)

something good

c)

change the world

d)

get their team appointed

83.

This act requires a person who sells financial products to disclose all information to a buyer:

a)

Godl Standard

b)

Federal Securities Act

c)

Glass-Steagall Act

d)

Wagner Act

84.

In 1933, FDR took the dollar off of this standard:

a)

Silver

b)

Gold

c)

Poors

d)

Platinum

85.

The CCC, CWA and PWA were created for this purpose:

a)

Jobs

b)

Redistribution of wealth

c)

Bank security

d)

Regulation of stocks and bonds.

86.

Priming the pump means:

a)

Doing something to speed up an action

b)

Doing somehting to stop an action

c)

Doing something to slow down an action

d)

Doing something to interfere with an action

87.

To make his economic program work, FDR needed to get this from the American public

a)

Belief

b)

Trust

c)

Money

d)

Attention

88.

FDR's fireside chats used this medium to communicate to the American public:

a)

Newspapers

b)

Television

c)

Radio

d)

Telegraphs

89.

FDR tried to make changes by raising the number serving and instituting a mandatory retirement age to this branch:

a)

U.S. Congress

b)

Supreme Court

c)

President

d)

Vice President

90.

FDR attempted to manipulate the Supreme Court by getting more of his supporters on using a method called:

a)

Packing

b)

Mandating

c)

Demogogue

d)

Redistributing

91.

This program aimed jobs at young people:

a)

TVA

b)

WPA

c)

NYA

d)

SEC

92.

This program built roads and bridges. It built the tunnel at the Toledo Zoo.

a)

FERA

b)

TVA

c)

CWA

d)

NWO

93.

This program worked with industry. It was later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court

a)

FERA

b)

NRA

c)

TVA

d)

NYA

94.

This program worked to create job programs for youth aged 16-25.

a)

FERA

b)

NRA

c)

TVA

d)

NYA

95.

This worked to run electric power, build power plants and lines to rural areas.

a)

CCC

b)

NYA

c)

REA

d)

SSA

96.

This program still exists. It provides loans to first time home owners.

a)

NYA

b)

FERA

c)

FHA

d)

CCC

97.

This provided jobs on conservation programs. Only single men were allowed to work on this program:

a)

NYA

b)

CCC

c)

TVA

d)

FDIC

98.

This paid farmers to raise or lower output of certain crops:

a)

CCC

b)

AAA

c)

TVA

d)

NYA

99.

This term means is a benefit given to an individual, business, or institution, usually by the government.

a)

Deficit

b)

Deposit

c)

Subsidy

d)

Payout

100.

On average this crime happened to at least one African-American per year from 1877-1941:

a)

Lynching

b)

Segregation

c)

Promotion

d)

Racism

101.

They thought the New Deal did too much and didn't believe the government should have such power:

a)

American Liberty League

b)

End Poverty in California

c)

National Union for Social Justice

d)

Share our Wealth

102.

The name of Huey Long's program to take the resources of the rich and redistribute it to the masses:

a)

American Liberty League

b)

End Poverty in California

c)

National Union for Social Justice

d)

Share our Wealth

103.

Many conservatives opposed the WPA because they believed a lot of artists belonged to this political organization:

a)

Democrats

b)

Republicans

c)

Anarchists

d)

Communists

104.

Both World Wars and the Great Depression have created this issue that affects the country today:

a)

National debt

b)

High interest rates

c)

Lack of health care access

d)

Illegal Immigration