Question 1

More than ____________________ veterans died when the US Army disbanded the Bonus Army.

Accepted Answer

100

Question 2

The largest and most violent strike of the 1930s occurred among ____ workers.

Accepted Answer

A) farm 
B) electrical 
C) auto 
D) textile 
E) coal 
A) farm 
B) electrical 
C) auto 
D) textile 
E) coal D

Question 3

From 1929 to 1932,industrial production fell by

Accepted Answer

A) 10 percent. 
B) 25 percent. 
C) 50 percent. 
D) 75 percent. 
E) 90 percent. 
A) 10 percent. 
B) 25 percent. 
C) 50 percent. 
D) 75 percent. 
E) 90 percent. C

Question 4

IDENTIFICATIONS
-Social Security Act

Accepted Answer

1935 congressional act of historic impor

Question 5

The people who organized and directed the New Deal programs were mostly

Accepted Answer

A) well-educated,male,technocrats and bankers. 
B) members of ethnic and religious minority groups. 
C) working-class urbanites with little or no advanced education. 
D) university professors eager to put their theories into action. 
E) immigrants who brought radical ideas from abroad. 
A) well-educated,male,technocrats and bankers. 
B) members of ethnic and religious minority groups. 
C) working-class urbanites with little or no advanced education. 
D) university professors eager to put their theories into action. 
E) immigrants who brought radical ideas from abroad.

Question 6

All of the following statements regarding Herbert Hoover are false except he

Accepted Answer

A) had an international reputation for successfully feeding millions of European soldiers and civilians. 
B) served two terms in the U.S.Senate before being elected president. 
C) motto was "the buck stops here." 
D) was the only Democrat elected president during the 1920s. 
E) had personally never known what it was like to be poor. 
A) had an international reputation for successfully feeding millions of European soldiers and civilians. 
B) served two terms in the U.S.Senate before being elected president. 
C) motto was "the buck stops here." 
D) was the only Democrat elected president during the 1920s. 
E) had personally never known what it was like to be poor.

Question 7

IDENTIFICATIONS
-Good Neighbor Policy

Accepted Answer

FDR pledged that the United States would

Question 8

Organized labor grew in size and stature during the New Deal.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

The Roosevelt administration tried to reinstate the National Recovery Administration after the Supreme Court declared its codes unconstitutional.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

President Roosevelt's first order of business was to

Accepted Answer

A) help the unemployed. 
B) help poor farmers. 
C) save the nation's financial system. 
D) implement a system of social security. 
E) bail out the railroads. 
A) help the unemployed. 
B) help poor farmers. 
C) save the nation's financial system. 
D) implement a system of social security. 
E) bail out the railroads.

Question 11

In 1935 some members of the AFL left and created a new organization the ____________________.

Accepted Answer

Congress for Industr

Question 12

The Marx Brothers movie Duck Soup

Accepted Answer

A) reinforced the public's faith in their political and military institutions. 
B) reinforced the public's political pessimism concerning the failure of American political institutions. 
C) angered animal rights activists because of its cruelty to ducks. 
D) supported New Deal liberalism. 
E) was never allowed to be shown. 
A) reinforced the public's faith in their political and military institutions. 
B) reinforced the public's political pessimism concerning the failure of American political institutions. 
C) angered animal rights activists because of its cruelty to ducks. 
D) supported New Deal liberalism. 
E) was never allowed to be shown.

Question 13

Eleanor Roosevelt was

Accepted Answer

A) an opponent of civil rights. 
B) a first lady who played no active role in Washington politics. 
C) estranged from her husband,President Roosevelt. 
D) an active political partner of her husband and a key proponent of New Deal liberalism. 
E) always in agreement with her husband,Franklin Roosevelt. 
A) an opponent of civil rights. 
B) a first lady who played no active role in Washington politics. 
C) estranged from her husband,President Roosevelt. 
D) an active political partner of her husband and a key proponent of New Deal liberalism. 
E) always in agreement with her husband,Franklin Roosevelt.

Question 14

IDENTIFICATIONS
-liberalism

Accepted Answer

reform movement embodied in th

Question 15

The ____________________ Corporation would make loans to ailing banks and to corporations willing to build low-cost housing,bridges,and other public works.

Accepted Answer

Reconstruc

Question 16

The Great Plains ecological disaster caused by drought and destruction of native grasses was called ____________________.

Accepted Answer

The answer of The Great Plains ecological disaster caused by...

Question 17

Franklin Roosevelt consistently backed legislation to make lynching a federal crime.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

The Bureau of Reclamation constructed the Boulder Dam and the Grand Coulee Dam.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

Herbert Hoover carried ____________________ states in the election of 1932.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Herbert Hoover carried ____________________ states in the...

Question 20

Although officially nonpartisan,Labor's Non-Partisan League supported ____________________ for president in 1936.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Although officially nonpartisan,Labor's Non-Partisan League supported ____________________...

Exam 25: The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939

More than ____________________ veterans died when the US Army disbanded the Bonus Army.

The largest and most violent strike of the 1930s occurred among ____ workers.

From 1929 to 1932,industrial production fell by

IDENTIFICATIONS -Social Security Act

The people who organized and directed the New Deal programs were mostly

All of the following statements regarding Herbert Hoover are false except he

IDENTIFICATIONS -Good Neighbor Policy

Organized labor grew in size and stature during the New Deal.

The Roosevelt administration tried to reinstate the National Recovery Administration after the Supreme Court declared its codes unconstitutional.

President Roosevelt's first order of business was to

In 1935 some members of the AFL left and created a new organization the ____________________.

The Marx Brothers movie Duck Soup

Eleanor Roosevelt was

IDENTIFICATIONS -liberalism

The ____________________ Corporation would make loans to ailing banks and to corporations willing to build low-cost housing,bridges,and other public works.

The Great Plains ecological disaster caused by drought and destruction of native grasses was called ____________________.

Franklin Roosevelt consistently backed legislation to make lynching a federal crime.

The Bureau of Reclamation constructed the Boulder Dam and the Grand Coulee Dam.

Herbert Hoover carried ____________________ states in the election of 1932.

Although officially nonpartisan,Labor's Non-Partisan League supported ____________________ for president in 1936.

When Old Worlds Collide: Contact, conquest, catastrophe

The Challenge to Spain and the Settlement of North America

England Discovers Its Colonies: Empire, liberty, and Expansion

Provincial America and the Struggle for a Continent

Reform, resistance, revolution

The Revolutionary Republic

Completing the Revolution, 1789-1815

Northern Transformations, 1790-1850

The Old South, 1790-1850

Toward an American Culture

Whigs and Democrats

Antebellum Reform

Manifest Destiny: an Empire for Liberty--Or Slavery

The Gathering Tempest, 1853-1860

Secession and Civil War, 1860-1862

A New Birth of Freedom, 1862-1865

Reconstruction, 1863-1877

A Transformed Nation: the West and the New South, 1865-1900

The Rise of Corporate America, 1865-1914

Cities, peoples, cultures, 1890-1920

Progressivism

Becoming a World Power, 1898-1917

War and Society, 1914-1920

The 1920s

America During the Second World War

The Age of Containment, 1946-1953

Affluence and Its Discontents, 1953-1963

America During Its Longest War, 1963-1974

Uncertain Times, 1974-1992

Economic, social, and Cultural Change in the Late 20th Century

A Time of Hope and Fear, 1993-2012

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