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The Great Depression
Test Description: GD Review
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1) All of the following can be identified as causes of the Great Depression except:
A
Low Tariff
B
Overspeculation – buying stocks on credit
C
Overproduction on farms
D
Uneven Distribution of wealth
2) The Social Security Act sought to provide for the following groups except:
A
Unemployed
B
Workers hurt on the job
C
Senior citizens
D
Handicapped
3) Which one of the following does not belong:
A
Liberal
B
Herbert Hoover
C
Democrat
D
FDR
4) Herbert Hoover believed:
A
Hand-outs made people dependent on government and they should work through there hardships
B
Americans were suffering and needed direct relief
C
Cutting taxes to poorer class Americans would stimulate economic growth
D
Economic depression could be reversed through government legislation
5) This person was known as the “Kingfish.”
A
Harry Hopkins
B
Eleanor Roosevelt
C
Henry Wallace
D
Huey Long
6) The New Deal was based upon all of the following except
A
Relief
B
Reform
C
Recovery
D
Reactionary
7) This Act allowed workers to collectively bargain with their employers:
A
Hawley-Smoot
B
Wagner
C
Emergency Quota
D
Fordney-McCumber
8) The following was considered a “New Deal remedy” for the sick economy
A
AAA
B
CCC
C
All choices are correct
D
TVA
9) This person was a photographer who’s pictures captured the hardships of the depression:
A
Ida Tarbell
B
Dorothea Lange
C
Helen Lynd
D
Woody Guthrie
10) The Stock Market crashed finally and most severely
A
Oct. 29, 1930
B
Oct. 29, 1929
C
Sept. 1, 1939
D
Oct. 24, 1919
11) Which of the following can not be associated with Herbert Hoover
A
Republican
B
Corrupt and dishonest
C
Hawley Smoot Tariff
D
Conservative
12) FDR was elected president how many times?
A
4
B
2
C
3
D
1
13) People who moved from the Midwest to California to escape the Dust Bowl were known as:
A
Okies
B
New Dealers
C
Dusties
D
The Liberty League
14) Hoover’s approach to stimulating economic growth was based in:
A
Communism
B
Keynsian Economics
C
Supply Side Economics
D
Trickle Down Economics
15) What group opposed the 21st amendment?
A
Democrats
B
New Dealers
C
Gangsters
D
Police
16) What American hero’s baby was abducted and killed in the, “Crime of the Century?”
A
Alvin York
B
Charles Lindurgh
C
George Patton
D
Douglas McArthur
17) The plight of the Okies was written about in The Grapes of Wrath written by:
A
John Steinbeck
B
Woody Guthrie
C
Richard Wright
D
Dorothea Lange
18) FDR's cmpaign song was
A
Jitterbug Fever
B
Happy Days are Here Again
C
Kingfish
D
Brother Can You Spare a Dime
19) The anthem of the Great Depression for many Americans became:
A
Allentown
B
The Poor Man's Blues
C
Brother Can You Spare A Dime
D
Over There
20) People who criticized FDR referred to him as a:
A
A Socialist
B
Franklin Deficit Roosevelt
C
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
D
A Communist
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