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Who was the U.S. President before the Depression who was in favor of big business and tariffs ?
a) Warren G. Harding
b) Theodore Roosevelt
c) Herbert Hoover
d) Jimbo McKenzie

Who was Harding's vice president who was in favor of tariffs and big business when he became President ?
a) Warren G. Harding
b) Calvin Coolidge
c) Charles T. Wilbury
d) Herbert Hoover

Who was the U.S. President when the Great Depression started ?
a) Herbert Hoover
b) Warren G. Harding
c) Calvin Coolidge
d) Franklin D. Roosevelt

Who was the Bonus Army ?/What did they want ?/ What was the result ?
a) Former slaves / 40 acres and a mule / Lincoln agreed
b) Homeless Americans / looking for a handout / Coolidge said no
c) Robber barons / tariffs /Harding said yes
d) WWI vets / A bonus early / Hoover said no

Who was John Steinbeck ?
a) U.S. President who was in favor of tariffs
b) Organized crime boss who brought in illegal alcohol during Prohibition
c) Novelist who wrote about migrant workers during the Great Depression
d) Leader of the Bonus Army

Who was Al Capone ?
a) U.S. President who was in favor of tariffs
b) Novelist who wrote about migrant workers during the Great Depression
c) Novelist who wrote about migrant workers during the Great Depression
d) Organized crime boss who brought in illegal alcohol during Prohibition

If you owned stock in the CMS Rocking Chair Company, what would you have ?
a) Partial ownership of that company. You are entitled to a percentage of that company's profits.
b) A job at that company making rocking chairs.
c) A rivial company that also sold rocking chairs.
d) The baddest rocking chair in the world.

What's a tariff ?
a) A tax on imported goods from another county.
b) Partial ownership of a company.
c) Being isolated from other countries.
d) IDK... stuff ?

American's wanted to remain isolationist from Europe, why ?
a) They felt that this would prevent the Great Depression.
b) World War I was terrible and American's did not want to get involved in Europe's drama.
c) They were afraid that European diseases would come to the U.S..
d) American's believed in open trade and wanted to make money off European's.

Which of the following are associated with the 1920's ?
a) All of these.
b) Jazz music.
c) Flapper dancers.
d) Partying and spending money you don't really have.

What happened on October 29, 1929 ?
a) The Declaration of Independence was signed
b) Mr. Ketcham was born.
c) Japan Bombed Pearl Harbor
d) The stock market crashed

What was the name of makeshift homes unemployed and homeless built during the Great Depression ?
a) Roosevelt Resorts
b) Hoovervilles
c) Hardingtowns
d) Coolidge Condos

What did the 18th Amendment do ?
a) Ended slavery
b) Gave women the right to vote
c) Made alcohol illegal in the US
d) Made alcohol legal in the US again

What did the 19th Amendment do ?
a) Ended slavery
b) Gave women the right to vote
c) Made alcohol illegal in the US
d) Made alcohol legal in the US again

What did the 21st Amendment do ?
a) Ended slavery
b) Gave women the right to vote
c) Made alcohol illegal in the US
d) Made alcohol legal in the US again

What did politicans want tariffs do ? What did they actually do ?
a) End the Great Depression / Ended the Great Depression
b) Help end the problems caused by alcohol / created crime and more problems.
c) Help the sale of domestic products / hurt the sale of exported goods.
d) All of these are true

What poor economic choices did Americans practice which led to the Great Depression ?
a) Didn't buy American, but flimsy imported junk.
b) Spent all their money on jazz records and twenty-two skadoos.
c) Over inflated their economy by buying everything on credit.
d) None of these

What did banks, farms and factories all do during the Great Depression ?
a) Fail
b) Succeed
c) Expand into other countries
d) IDK... stuff ?

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