Question 1

Under the Popular Front, American Communists softened their criticism of capitalism.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

The Hoover administration addressed the economic situation of American farmers with the

Accepted Answer

A)  Agricultural Marketing Act. 
B)  Soil Conservation Act. 
C)  Agricultural Adjustment Act. 
D)  Farm Security Administration. 
E)  Rural Electrification Administration. 
A)  Agricultural Marketing Act. 
B)  Soil Conservation Act. 
C)  Agricultural Adjustment Act. 
D)  Farm Security Administration. 
E)  Rural Electrification Administration.

Question 3

During the 1930s, the American Communist Party was always under the close supervision of the Soviet Union.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

What caused the stock market to crash in October 1929? Could this crash have been avoided?

Accepted Answer

The stock market crash of October 1929,

Question 5

The Abraham Lincoln Brigade is associated with

Accepted Answer

A)  the radical right. 
B)  the Spanish Civil War. 
C)  veterans of World War I. 
D)  the "bonus marchers." 
E)  the Civilian Conservation Corps. 
A)  the radical right. 
B)  the Spanish Civil War. 
C)  veterans of World War I. 
D)  the "bonus marchers." 
E)  the Civilian Conservation Corps.

Question 6

Between his election in 1932 and the inauguration in 1933, Franklin Roosevelt

Accepted Answer

A)  declared he would dramatically increase government spending. 
B)  promised to maintain a balanced federal budget. 
C)  made no public statements. 
D)  refused to make any agreements on the economic direction of the country with the outgoing president, Herbert Hoover. 
E)  established the Works Progress Administration. 
A)  declared he would dramatically increase government spending. 
B)  promised to maintain a balanced federal budget. 
C)  made no public statements. 
D)  refused to make any agreements on the economic direction of the country with the outgoing president, Herbert Hoover. 
E)  established the Works Progress Administration.

Question 7

During the drought of the 1930s, the Great Plains were called the "________."

Accepted Answer

The answer of During the drought of the 1930s, the...

Question 8

During the 1930s, the American Communist Party

Accepted Answer

A)  distanced itself from the Soviet Union. 
B)  excluded most minorities from its ranks. 
C)  supported Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War. 
D)  both distanced itself from the Soviet Union and excluded most minorities from its ranks. 
E)  None of these answers is correct. 
A)  distanced itself from the Soviet Union. 
B)  excluded most minorities from its ranks. 
C)  supported Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War. 
D)  both distanced itself from the Soviet Union and excluded most minorities from its ranks. 
E)  None of these answers is correct.

Question 9

During the 1930s, the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union

Accepted Answer

A)  sought to organize the rural poor across racial lines. 
B)  was formed by the American Communist Party. 
C)  concerned the federal government as a powerful force of rural radicalism. 
D)  both sought to organize the rural poor across racial lines, and concerned the federal government as a powerful force of rural radicalism. 
E)  All these answers are correct. 
A)  sought to organize the rural poor across racial lines. 
B)  was formed by the American Communist Party. 
C)  concerned the federal government as a powerful force of rural radicalism. 
D)  both sought to organize the rural poor across racial lines, and concerned the federal government as a powerful force of rural radicalism. 
E)  All these answers are correct.

Exam 23: The Great Depression

Under the Popular Front, American Communists softened their criticism of capitalism.

The Hoover administration addressed the economic situation of American farmers with the

During the 1930s, the American Communist Party was always under the close supervision of the Soviet Union.

What caused the stock market to crash in October 1929? Could this crash have been avoided?

The Abraham Lincoln Brigade is associated with

Between his election in 1932 and the inauguration in 1933, Franklin Roosevelt

During the drought of the 1930s, the Great Plains were called the "________."

During the 1930s, the American Communist Party

During the 1930s, the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union

The Collision of Cultures

Transplantations and Borderlands

Society and Culture in Provincial America

The Empire in Transition

The American Revolution

The Constitution and the New Republic

The Jeffersonian Era

Varieties of American Nationalism

Jacksonian America

America’s Economic Revolution

Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

Antebellum Culture and Reform

The Impending Crisis

The Civil War

Reconstruction and the New South

The Conquest of the Far West

Industrial Supremacy

The Age of the City

From Crisis to Empire

The Progressives

America and the Great War

The “New Era”

The New Deal

The Global Crisis, 1921–1941

America in a World at War

The Cold War

The Affluent Society

Civil Rights, Vietnam, and the Ordeal of Liberalism

The Crisis of Authority

From the “Age of Limits” to the Age of Reagan

The Age of Globalization

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