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1930s Review
Test Description: Review of the 1930s
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1) Who was President at the beginning of the Great Depression?
A
Teddy Roosevelt
B
Franklin Roosevelt
C
Herbert Hoover
D
Woodrow Wilson
2) Which President believed that any government money should go to companies and not individuals?
A
Franklin Roosevelt
B
Calvin Coolidge
C
Teddy Roosevelt
D
Herbert Hoover
3) Which President's Plan was called the New Deal?
A
Teddy Roosevelt
B
Herbert Hoover
C
Woodrow Wilson
D
Franklin Roosevelt
4) The intent of the New Deal
A
soup kitchens
B
A chicken in every pot, a car in every garage
C
equal distribution of wealth
D
relief, recovery and reform
5) One cause of the Great Depression was
A
a surplus of crops and other agricultural goods
B
both of these
C
buying too much (including stocks) on credit
D
none of these
6) The Dust Bowl was a nickname for
A
a game kids played during the Depression
B
cereal
C
a 10-year drought and environmental catastrophe the central US
D
poor people's food during the Depression
7) The group of World War I veterans who demanded their payment from the government during the Depression were called
A
Hoovervilles
B
Bonus Army
C
Communistis
D
Hobos
8) President Hoover took this action to move the World War I veterans out of Washington, DC
A
set up a camp for them at Fort Bragg, NC
B
locked the White House gates
C
paid them off
D
ordered the army to attack and destroy their shanties
9) Orson Welles read a story on the radio about a Marian invasion of earth that caused a(n)
A
riot in New York City
B
government shut down
C
restriction to be placed on radio broadcasting
D
panic as people thought it was real
10) One of the forms of entertainment in the 1930s was
A
NASCAR
B
television
C
board games
D
video games
11) John Steinbeck wrote The Grapes Of Wrath which was about
A
Herbert Hoover
B
soup kitchens
C
the Dust Bowl
D
the stock market crash
12) One of the improvements in movies in the 1930s is that they all had
A
color
B
animation
C
heroes
D
sound
13) Alphabet Soup was a nickname for
A
the dust in the houses from the dust storms
B
the programs started by FDR in his New Deal
C
a popular game of the 1930s
D
the soup received from the churches
14) Hobos were people who
A
disliked Franklin Roosevelt
B
rode the trains illegally to try to move around the country to find work
C
set up a Hooverville in Washington, DC to call attention to poor
D
sold their children to try to find them a better life
15) One of the things President Roosevelt did in his first 100 days was
A
open more soup kitchens
B
get the US involved in World War II
C
try to add more people to the Supreme Court
D
close the banks and only reopen those that had not loaned out all of their deposits
16) Programs started by President Roosevelt
A
all of these
B
gave jobs to people from the government
C
are still around today
D
attempted to restart the economy
17) Fireside Chats were the name given to
A
talks that the President gave on the radio
B
a Monopoly space
C
a board game of the 1930s
D
meetings by workers who were trying to form unions
18) Workers in the 1930s tried to form unions to
A
get more money from the government
B
improve wages and working conditions
C
cause riots
D
stop communism
19) Many people disliked immigrants in the 1930s because they felt they were
A
from different areas of Europe from most of the people already in the United States
B
taking jobs from American citizens
C
bringing in un-American ideas
D
all of these
20) The US economy started to recover toward the end of the 1930s because
A
the Dust Bowl created a surpllus
B
Europe was in war and needed food and equipment
C
all of FDR's ideas were working
D
banks were loaning more money to people to buy stocks
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