Ch. 17/18 Test
  • 1. This 1930 law, passed while Herbert Hoover was president, raised American's taxes on imported goods to very high levels.
A) Public Works Administration
B) Tennessee Valley Authority
C) Glass Stegall Banking Act
D) Smoot-Hawley Tariff
  • 2. As a result of this law, which helped provide electricity and flood control to people living in the Southeastern U.S.
A) Smoot-Hawley Tariff
B) (TVA) Tennessee Valley Authority
C) Emergency Banking Bill
D) Agriculture Adjustment Act
  • 3. This law protected depositors money by creating the FDIC which protected depositseven if a bank failed.
A) Public Works Administration
B) Glass Stegall Banking Act
C) Social Security Act
D) Emergency Banking Bill
  • 4. This was the first New Deal law. It helped depositors and bankers by stopping the panic runs which were devastating the banking industry.
A) Smoot-Hawley Tariff
B) Securities and Exchange Commission
C) National Labor Relations Act
D) Emergency Banking Bill
  • 5. This law protected farmers from foreclosure and decreased farm production by giving farmers money to not work.
A) Social Security Act
B) (AAA) Agricultural Adjustment Act
C) Glass Stegall Banking Act
D) Emergency Banking Act
  • 6. This law helped elderly Americans (retirees) by providing a guarenteed pension.
A) Social Security Act
B) Emergency Banking Bill
C) Tennessee Valley Authroity
D) National Labor Relations Act
  • 7. This law helped millions of unemployed men by providing jobs for unemployed Americans on large building projects like highways, dams, bridges, etc.
A) Smoot-Hawley Tariff
B) Public Works Administration
C) Social Security Act
D) Emergency Banking Bill
  • 8. One way this law helped union members was by giving labor unions the right to bargain collectively.
A) Tennessee Valley Authority
B) National Labor Relations Act
C) Agricultural Adjustment Act
D) Public Works Administration
  • 9. This agency helped protect investors by policing American stock markets to prevent fraud
A) Social Security Act
B) Smoot-Hawley Tariff
C) (SEC) Securities and Exchange Commision
D) Glass Stegall Banking Act
  • 10. He was president when the Great Depression began. He and his fellow Republicans were often blamed for the Great Depression
A) Eleanor Roosevelt
B) Francis Townsend
C) Herbert Hoover
D) Charles Coughlin
  • 11. This Catholic priest criticized FDR's programs on his national radio program
A) Francis Townsend
B) Eleanor Roosevelt
C) Charles Caughlin
D) Herbert Hoover
  • 12. FDR's wife greatly enhanced the postion of First Lady. Her name was ______.
A) Eleanor Roosevelt
B) Charles Coughlin
C) Herbert Hoover
D) Francis Townsend
  • 13. This medical doctor came up with a pension plan during the Great Depression that he believed would reduce the elderly from poverty. Cogress rejected his plan.
A) Eleanor Roosevelt
B) Francis Townsend
C) Charles Coughlin
D) Herbert Hoover
  • 14. The first thing that President Roosevelt wanted to do after being sworn into office as President in 1933 was
A) assemble a team of advisors who could all agree upon needed policies
B) to reinstate his predecessor's laissez faire principles of government
C) t launch his reelection bid known as the "Hundred Days"
D) resore confidence in the banking system
  • 15. Which of the following correctly describes the word "Speculation"?
A) is a item of value offered to a lender to guarantee that a loan will be repaid
B) was money paid to help unemployed or poor citizens
C) resulted in banks being forced into bankruptcy by depositors attempting to all withdraw thier money at once
D) buying stockstrying to make a quick profit
  • 16. Which of the following Depression era people is described CORRECTLY?
A) FDR was president on "Black Tuesday" in 1929
B) Hoover was re-elected as President in 1932
C) Senator Huey Long from Louisiana advocated the Share Our Wealth Program
  • 17. Choose the statement that is TRUE.
A) farmers became rich during the Great Depression
B) the stock market increased in value during the Great Depression
C) the Dust Bowl was a tremendous drought that hurt farmers in the Eastern US for more than 5 years in the 30s
D) the shantytowns built by the homeless people who lost their homes during the Great Depressoin were called Hoovervilles
  • 18. Which disease dramatically shaped FDR because of his personal battle with the effects of the disease?
A) Polio
B) Pneumonia
C) Heart Disease
D) Yellow Fever
E) Cancer
  • 19. Which of the following BEST describes President Hoover's laissez faire philosphy in dealing with the Great Depression
A) the federal government should provide billions of federal tax dollars to help poor Americans who were unemployed
B) the federal government should raise taxes and increase spending on federal programs to help the poor, the hungry, and the unemployed
C) the president should use the power of government to fight the effects of the Great Depression
D) the federal government should NOT give direct assistance to Americans who were unemployed
  • 20. Which of the following groups traditionally voted for Republican candidates before FDR's New Deal, but began voting for Democratic candidates during the 1930s?
A) The wealthy
B) African Americans
C) White Men
D) Progressives
  • 21. The reason that bank collapses had such a devastating effect during the early years of the Great Depression was because?
A) banks were protected by FDIC
B) investors were forced to pay higher interest rates
C) depositors lost their savings
D) bankers were getting wealthy off of the misery of depositors
  • 22. What was the significance of October 29, 1929?
A) athis was Black Tuesday when the stock market crashed
B) this was when the Smoot-Hawley tariff was passed in Congress
C) this was when the US entered WW II ending the Great Depression
D) this was when FDR was elected as president
  • 23. Which of the following was NOT one of the effects of the Stock Market Crash?
A) thousands of investors were foreced into bankruptcy
B) banks foreclosed on loans and repossessed food
C) the stock panic caused a bank panic
D) prices; farmers got rose because desperate people needed food
  • 24. Which of the following is NOT true of the Great Depression?
A) President Hoover's Republican party was blamed by the American voters
B) this depression was the worst economic disaster in US History
C) there were high levels of unemployment and large numbers of bankruptcies
D) the banking system remained strong in spite of the economic downturn
  • 25. FDR's "Court Packing" plan...
A) was a Congressional attempt to reduce the power of the US SupremeCourt
B) was successful
C) involved the attempt to place six more judges on the U.S. Supreme Court
D) was never attempted
  • 26. All of the following were voters for FDR, EXCEPT which group?
A) African Americans
B) Women
C) Wealth Americans
D) Farmers
E) Progressives
  • 27. In 1937 FDR decided he wanted to "Pack" the Supreme Court because he...
A) did not like the Court declaring his New Deal laws unconstitutional
B) wanted Congress to decrease the power of the US Supreme Court
C) was concerned about the health of Supreme Court justices and was therefore trying to get some of the older justices to retire
D) wanted to use the Supreme Court to protect his New Deal programs from Congress
  • 28. Choose the correct statement about the Depression years.
A) during the worst year of the Great Depression 25% of the American workforce was unemployed
B) the New Deal ended the Great Depression
C) the New Deal would best be described as a collection of laws passed during the 1930s
D) FDR was elected three times and served 8 years as President
  • 29. By the time FDR became President, approximately ____________ banks had already failed, and approximately _________ percent of American workers were unemployed.
A) 3,000/ 20
B) 4,000/ 30
C) 3,000/ 25
D) 2,000/ 30
  • 30. The Bonus Army was a group of unemployed World War I Veterans who demanded _______
A) Federal government action to end the Great Depression
B) that the U.S. go to war with Japan
C) their pension from the government in 1932
D) that President Hoover resign from Office
  • 31. The Grapes of Wrath was a book written ________
A) about the hard times that average Americans faced in the 1930s
B) by the president to explain how the Great Depression began
C) none of these answer choices
D) to explain the wine-making process in the 1930s
  • 32. The Great Depression approximately lasted ________ years.
A) 13 years
B) 4 years
C) 9 years
D) 15 years
  • 33. Money given to the poor during hard economic times is called _______
A) bank run
B) disgraceful
C) relief
D) inflation
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