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The Great Depression Continued
Test Description: This is a continuation of the Great Depression test.
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) People who could not afford to buy stocks at full price began doing what?
A
Moving to a new state.
B
Paying back loans.
C
Buying on Margin.
D
Quitting their jobs.
2) Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath, the story about the farmers forced to move in search of work?
A
John Steinbeck.
B
Woody Guthrie.
C
Calvin Coolidge.
D
E.D. Rose
3) Who authorized $1.2 billion in aid to different financial institutions in the first year of the Depression, but refused to give direct assistance to individual Americans?
A
Franklin Roosevelt.
B
Woodrow Wilson.
C
Calvin Coolidge.
D
Herbert Hoover.
4) What were people trying to prevent by planting grass and trees in the Dust Bowl?
A
Hurricanes.
B
Soil erosion.
C
Tornadoes.
D
Flooding.
5) What was one of the major causes of the Great Depression that was related to goods being sold in a shrinking market?
A
Goods were being under produced.
B
Goods were being overproduced.
C
Businesses were failing and not able to employ workers.
D
People had no money to purchase goods.
6) Herbert Hoover lost the election of 1932 mainly because Americans
A
Lost confidence in him or blamed him for the Depression.
B
Thought he would spend too much government money.
C
Worried about his priority on foreign policies instead of domestic issues.
D
Thought he would raise taxes.
7) The TVA is significant because it hired people to do what?
A
Work in the automobile industry to increase mass production.
B
Deliver food to the poverty-stricken Dust Bowl residents.
C
Work on farms to help stabilize agriculture.
D
Build dams and generators that provided electricity.
8) Which of the following is a lasting effect of the New Deal?
A
Whistle-blowers in corrupt corporations.
B
Workplace safety.
C
The protection of the savings of bank customers.
D
Clean air and water.
9) Which of the following best describes Black Tuesday?
A
Half a million workers lost their jobs.
B
The stock market crashed.
C
Hoover lost the election.
D
Over 2,000 banks closed.
10) What problems did President Roosevelt have with the Supreme Court?
A
He was not given the chance to nominate new Supreme Court justices.
B
The Court issued a series of rulings declaring many New Deal programs unconstitutional.
C
He directly accused the Supreme Court of causing the stock market crash.
D
The Court would not give him adequate funding for the New Deal programs.
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