Question 1

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. 
Court-packing scheme

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Question 2

What strategy guided the early New Deal, and what problems and challenges arose in 1934-1935?

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Question 3

Which of the following is not one of the characteristics of the stock market in the months leading up to the October 1929 crash?

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A)  There was a frenzied upsurge in stock prices. 
B)  The market value of all stocks more than tripled in four years. 
C)  Stockbrokers lending buyers up to 75 percent of a stock's cost 
D)  Steep income-tax hikes suddenly cut the flow of money into the market. 
E)  Investment trusts lured novices into the market

Question 4

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 Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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Question 5

How did the depression and the New Deal affect specific social groups in the United States?

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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. 
Social Security Act

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Question 7

What happened to Roosevelt's "court-packing" plan?

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A)  Congress, including New Deal supporters and many conservatives, approved of it because they felt it was time for a change. 
B)  The American people rejected it in a referendum. 
C)  He had to drop it but was able to replace four members of the Supreme Court who retired shortly thereafter. 
D)  It turned out to be one of Roosevelt's greatest triumphs. 
E)  It was the issue that enabled the Republicans to retake control of the Senate in the 1938 election.

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. Court-packing scheme

What strategy guided the early New Deal, and what problems and challenges arose in 1934-1935?

Which of the following is not one of the characteristics of the stock market in the months leading up to the October 1929 crash?

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 Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

How did the depression and the New Deal affect specific social groups in the United States?

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. Social Security Act

What happened to Roosevelt's "court-packing" plan?