Exam 24: The Great Depression and the New Deal

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Okies, Dust Bowl

Which of the following statements is not true about the New Deal?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Tennessee Valley Authority

Which of the following pieces of legislation was an attempt at campaign reform in the late 1930s?

Discuss the New Deal's expansive view of the government's role in promoting economic and social welfare.

Which statement best expresses the mobility of African-Americans during the 1930s?

What type of entertainment did the Frank Capra films Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington provide?

What technological innovations increased the entertainment value of movies during the depression of the 1930s?

What were the causes of the depression? What economic problems did the stock market crash trigger? Why did the stock market crash hurt the average American when less than ten percent of Americans actually invested in it?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Hundred Days

Which of the following was not an approach that Franklin Roosevelt used during the early years of his administration to fight the depression?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Hoover Valley, Hoover blankets

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Indian Reorganization Act

Which of the following examples of New Deal legislation is correctly paired with what its purpose?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Harold Ickes

What were the experiences of African-Americans and Hispanics during the depression? What kind of discrimination did these groups face? What government policies affected Hispanics and Native Americans?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. John L. Lewis, Walter Reuther

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Escape through radio and movies

What was the radio adaptation of War of the Worlds about?