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) Smoot-Hawley Tariff
D) Glass Stegall Banking Act
  • 2. As a result of this law, which helped provide electricity and flood control to people living in the Southeastern U.S.
A) Agriculture Adjustment Act
B) (TVA) Tennessee Valley Authority
C) Emergency Banking Bill
D) Smoot-Hawley Tariff
  • 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) Emergency Banking Bill
D) Social Security Act
  • 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) Emergency Banking Bill
D) National Labor Relations Act
  • 5. This law protected farmers from foreclosure and decreased farm production by giving farmers money to not work.
A) (AAA) Agricultural Adjustment Act
B) Emergency Banking Act
C) Social Security Act
D) Glass Stegall Banking Act
  • 6. This law helped elderly Americans (retirees) by providing a guarenteed pension.
A) Emergency Banking Bill
B) Tennessee Valley Authroity
C) National Labor Relations Act
D) Social Security 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) Public Works Administration
B) Social Security Act
C) Smoot-Hawley Tariff
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) Public Works Administration
C) National Labor Relations Act
D) Agricultural Adjustment Act
  • 9. This agency helped protect investors by policing American stock markets to prevent fraud
A) Glass Stegall Banking Act
B) (SEC) Securities and Exchange Commision
C) Social Security Act
D) Smoot-Hawley Tariff
  • 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) Charles Coughlin
D) Herbert Hoover
  • 11. This Catholic priest criticized FDR's programs on his national radio program
A) Herbert Hoover
B) Charles Caughlin
C) Francis Townsend
D) Eleanor Roosevelt
  • 12. FDR's wife greatly enhanced the postion of First Lady. Her name was ______.
A) Herbert Hoover
B) Eleanor Roosevelt
C) Charles Coughlin
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) Herbert Hoover
B) Francis Townsend
C) Charles Coughlin
D) Eleanor Roosevelt
  • 14. The first thing that President Roosevelt wanted to do after being sworn into office as President in 1933 was
A) t launch his reelection bid known as the "Hundred Days"
B) assemble a team of advisors who could all agree upon needed policies
C) resore confidence in the banking system
D) to reinstate his predecessor's laissez faire principles of government
  • 15. Which of the following correctly describes the word "Speculation"?
A) resulted in banks being forced into bankruptcy by depositors attempting to all withdraw thier money at once
B) buying stockstrying to make a quick profit
C) was money paid to help unemployed or poor citizens
D) is a item of value offered to a lender to guarantee that a loan will be repaid
  • 16. Which of the following Depression era people is described CORRECTLY?
A) FDR was president on "Black Tuesday" in 1929
B) Senator Huey Long from Louisiana advocated the Share Our Wealth Program
C) Hoover was re-elected as President in 1932
  • 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 shantytowns built by the homeless people who lost their homes during the Great Depressoin were called Hoovervilles
D) the Dust Bowl was a tremendous drought that hurt farmers in the Eastern US for more than 5 years in the 30s
  • 18. Which disease dramatically shaped FDR because of his personal battle with the effects of the disease?
A) Yellow Fever
B) Pneumonia
C) Cancer
D) Polio
E) Heart Disease
  • 19. Which of the following BEST describes President Hoover's laissez faire philosphy in dealing with the Great Depression
A) the president should use the power of government to fight the effects of the Great Depression
B) the federal government should NOT give direct assistance to Americans who were unemployed
C) the federal government should provide billions of federal tax dollars to help poor Americans who were unemployed
D) the federal government should raise taxes and increase spending on federal programs to help the poor, the hungry, and the 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) African Americans
B) White Men
C) The wealthy
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) this was when the Smoot-Hawley tariff was passed in Congress
B) athis was Black Tuesday when the stock market crashed
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) banks foreclosed on loans and repossessed food
B) prices; farmers got rose because desperate people needed food
C) thousands of investors were foreced into bankruptcy
D) the stock panic caused a bank panic
  • 24. Which of the following is NOT true of the Great Depression?
A) this depression was the worst economic disaster in US History
B) the banking system remained strong in spite of the economic downturn
C) President Hoover's Republican party was blamed by the American voters
D) there were high levels of unemployment and large numbers of bankruptcies
  • 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) Farmers
B) Wealth Americans
C) Progressives
D) Women
E) African Americans
  • 27. In 1937 FDR decided he wanted to "Pack" the Supreme Court because he...
A) was concerned about the health of Supreme Court justices and was therefore trying to get some of the older justices to retire
B) wanted Congress to decrease the power of the US Supreme Court
C) wanted to use the Supreme Court to protect his New Deal programs from Congress
D) did not like the Court declaring his New Deal laws unconstitutional
  • 28. Choose the correct statement about the Depression years.
A) the New Deal would best be described as a collection of laws passed during the 1930s
B) the New Deal ended the Great Depression
C) during the worst year of the Great Depression 25% of the American workforce was unemployed
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) 2,000/ 30
B) 3,000/ 20
C) 3,000/ 25
D) 4,000/ 30
  • 30. The Bonus Army was a group of unemployed World War I Veterans who demanded _______
A) that the U.S. go to war with Japan
B) that President Hoover resign from Office
C) Federal government action to end the Great Depression
D) their pension from the government in 1932
  • 31. The Grapes of Wrath was a book written ________
A) by the president to explain how the Great Depression began
B) about the hard times that average Americans faced in the 1930s
C) to explain the wine-making process in the 1930s
D) none of these answer choices
  • 32. The Great Depression approximately lasted ________ years.
A) 4 years
B) 13 years
C) 9 years
D) 15 years
  • 33. Money given to the poor during hard economic times is called _______
A) relief
B) bank run
C) inflation
D) disgraceful
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