Question 1

From factory workers, urban blacks, and Hispanic migrant laborers to moviemakers, artists, writers, and photographers, diverse groups met the crisis with resourcefulness, creativity, and organized social action. Discuss.

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Question 2

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. 
Scottsboro Boys

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Question 3

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. 
Works Progress Administration

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Question 4

Compare and contrast President Hoover's and President Franklin Roosevelt's attempts to deal with the depression. Why did each president follow his particular course? Which one was more successful?

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Question 5

What did Eleanor Roosevelt see as her primary role as First Lady?

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A)  She wanted to serve as an observer for her husband and promote social reform. 
B)  She wanted to be a gracious hostess for the many dignitaries who visited the White House. 
C)  She wanted to personally draft legislation and forge foreign policy. 
D)  She wanted to promote an appreciation of the arts. 
E)  She wanted to support her husband and be a light presence at social functions.

Question 6

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. 
Fair Labor Standards Act

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Question 7

Which statement best represents the economic status of farm families during the 1930s?

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A)  Because farm families were property owners, they suffered less than other segments of society during the depression. 
B)  Many farm families gave up because of debt and the drought. 
C)  In rural America, bankruptcies, foreclosures, and the abandonment of farms were rare because communities stuck together. 
D)  Three-fourths of the farms folded during the depression. 
E)  Because of the swift implementation of New Deal reforms, farm families prospered from 1933 onward.

Question 8

A growing anti-business attitude during the first Hundred Days of the New Deal could be detected in which of the following programs?

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A)  Reconstruction Finance Corporation 
B)  Federal Securities Act 
C)  National Industrial Recovery Act 
D)  Interstate Commerce Commission 
E)  All of these choices

Question 9

The Civilian Conservation Corps

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A)  put five million young men and women to work in camps across the country. 
B)  was a conservative political youth club. 
C)  employed jobless young men in rural projects such as reforestation, park maintenance, and erosion control. 
D)  brought together business leaders to draft codes of fair competition. 
E)  was the precursor to the National Guard.

Question 10

What key measures and setbacks marked the course of the New Deal from 1935 on?

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Question 11

Which of the following companies bitterly resisted unionization in the 1930s?

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A)  General Motors 
B)  U.S. Steel 
C)  Ford Motor Company 
D)  Pennsylvania Railroad 
E)  Exxon

Question 12

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. 
Civilian Conservation Corps

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Question 13

How did the American economic crisis affect the European economy?

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A)  It was unaffected. 
B)  It was stimulated because European firms were able to take advantage of markets otherwise dominated by American businesses. 
C)  It collapsed as world trade declined. 
D)  It was hurt because it depended so heavily on American agricultural products. 
E)  It lost market share as American companies used illegal tactics to increase their trade.

Question 14

What environmental disaster struck the nation during the Depression?

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A)  Locust Infestation 
B)  Dust Bowl 
C)  Lower than normal temperatures on the Great Plains 
D)  Potato famine 
E)  Global warming

Question 15

Which of the following was not one of Roosevelt's immediate responses to the banking crisis?

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A)  He proposed the Emergency Banking Act. 
B)  He declared a "bank holiday," which closed banks for four days. 
C)  He nationalized the banks. 
D)  He set up procedures for managing failed banks. 
E)  He assured Americans over the radio that they could again entrust their money to banks.

Question 16

Which of the following was not true of the National Industrial Recovery Act?

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A)  It embodied ideas of industrial self-regulation and business-government cooperation and drew on the idea of trade associations which had been promoted by Herbert Hoover. 
B)  It was declared unconstitutional. 
C)  It appropriated $3.3 billion for heavy-duty government public-works programs to provide jobs and stimulate the economy. 
D)  Under it, major industries drafted codes of "fair competition," setting production limits, prescribing wages and working conditions, and forbidding price cutting. 
E)  It limited workers' collective bargaining rights.

Question 17

Huey Long proposed

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A)  a 100% tax on all incomes over $1 million and appropriation of all fortunes over $5 million. 
B)  cutting taxes and federal spending to stimulate the economy. 
C)  nationalizing banks and industry. 
D)  a national sales tax that would raise revenue to pay down the deficit. 
E)  stimulating the economy by having the government an interstate highway system.

Question 18

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. 
Black Thursday

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Question 19

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. 
Congress of Industrial Organizations

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Question 20

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. 
National Resources Planning Board

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Exam 24: The Great Depression and the New Deal

From factory workers, urban blacks, and Hispanic migrant laborers to moviemakers, artists, writers, and photographers, diverse groups met the crisis with resourcefulness, creativity, and organized social action. Discuss.

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. Scottsboro Boys

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. Works Progress Administration

Compare and contrast President Hoover's and President Franklin Roosevelt's attempts to deal with the depression. Why did each president follow his particular course? Which one was more successful?

What did Eleanor Roosevelt see as her primary role as First Lady?

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. Fair Labor Standards Act

Which statement best represents the economic status of farm families during the 1930s?

A growing anti-business attitude during the first Hundred Days of the New Deal could be detected in which of the following programs?

The Civilian Conservation Corps

What key measures and setbacks marked the course of the New Deal from 1935 on?

Which of the following companies bitterly resisted unionization in the 1930s?

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. Civilian Conservation Corps

How did the American economic crisis affect the European economy?

What environmental disaster struck the nation during the Depression?

Which of the following was not one of Roosevelt's immediate responses to the banking crisis?

Which of the following was not true of the National Industrial Recovery Act?

Huey Long proposed

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. Black Thursday

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. Congress of Industrial Organizations

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. National Resources Planning Board