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The Great Depression
Test Description: A test on the causes and effects of the Great Depression.
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) What is the up and down pattern in the economy known as?
A
Communism
B
Capitalism
C
Socialism
D
The Business Cycle
2) Which first lady covinced her husband to create the National Youth Administration to help young workers stay in school?
A
Eleanor Roosevelt
B
Jane Adams
C
Mary Todd-Lincoln
D
Barbra Bush
3) True or False: Woody Guthrie's lively, upbeat songs offered an escape from the loss and struggle suffered by so many people during the Depression.
A
False
B
True
4) The passage of which act was the first time the federal government took direct responsibility for many citizens' economic well-being.
A
The Wagner Act.
B
The Emergency Banking Relief Act.
C
The Social Security Act.
D
The War Powers Act.
5) True or False: The Bonus Army demanded that Hoover authorize the early payment of their military bonuses to help ease the need caused by the Great Depression.
A
True
B
False
6) True or False: The Second New Deal was made up of programs the Roosevelt administration introduced when the Supreme Court struck down programs of the first New Deal
A
False
B
True
7) How did President Roosevelt react to the Supreme Court striking down programs associated with the New Deal?
A
He passed an act that made the President able to overrule the Supreme Court.
B
He tried passing an act that would have gotten rid of the Supreme Court.
C
He tried passing an act that would have made his programs legal again.
D
He tried pass an act that would have added six more Supreme Court Justices to the court.
8) Who was an African American educator that was appointed to Roosevelt's administration?
A
Dorothea Lange
B
Eleanor Roosevelt
C
Jane Adams
D
Mary McLeod Bethune
9) Which group organized workers into unions based on industry, and not skill level?
A
The Boilermakers Union.
B
The Teamsters Union.
C
The National Youth Administration.
D
The Congress of Industrial Organizations.
10) Which of Roosevelt's organizations employed more than 8.5 million people from 1935 to 1943, building roads, bridges, and airports.
A
The Agricultural Adjustment Bureau.
B
The Tennessee Valley Authority.
C
The Works Progress Administration.
D
The Civilian Conservation Corps.
11) Critics who thought the New Deal went too far claimed which of the following?
A
The government should nationalize the country's wealth and rescources.
B
The new laws gave the president too much authority.
C
The enormous expansion of the federal government was a step toward communism.
D
The cost of the new programs could bankrupt some businesses.
12) Businesses were hurt by the stock market crash because they
A
Lost their savings in failed banks and had to close or cut back.
B
Were forced to cut back production but could not fire workers.
C
Had no workers to make goods.
D
Had lent money to foreign countries and were not paid back.
13) Which group suffered most in the Dust Bowl?
A
Scientists.
B
Industrial workers.
C
Farmers
D
Unskilled laborers.
14) Americans regained faith in banks after President Roosevelt signed the Emergency Banking Relief Act into law because the act did what?
A
It gave people people the right to withdraw their money without penalty or waiting period.
B
It authorized the government to immediately deposit $1 billion in banks to guarantee deposits.
C
It allowed only healthy banks to remain open.
D
It required the federal government to pay back in full the customers of any bank that failed.
15) Herbert Hoover lost the election in 1932 mainly because Americans...
A
Thought he would raise taxes.
B
Lost confidence in him or blamed him for the Depression
C
Thought he would spend too much government money.
D
Worried about his priority on foreign policies instead of domestic issues.
16) What problems did President Roosevelt have with the Supreme Court?
A
He was not given the chance to nominate new Supreme Court Justices.
B
He directly accused the Supreme Court of causing the stock market crash.
C
The Court would not give him adequate funding for the New Deal programs.
D
The Court issued a series of rulings declaring many New Deal programs unconstitutional.
17) Which of the following is a lasting effect of the New Deal?
A
Clean air and water.
B
Whistle blowers in corrupt corporations.
C
The protection of the savings of bank customers.
D
Workplace safety.
18) 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.
19) Which of the following best describes Black Tuesday?
A
Over 2,000 banks closed.
B
Half a million workers lost their jobs.
C
Hoover lost the election.
D
The stock market crashed.
20) Look at the stock prices graph on page 779 to answer the following question: People who invested in which month wold have been hurt most by Black Tuesday?
A
May.
B
November.
C
July.
D
September.
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