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The Great Depression
Part 1
1. All of the following were
causes of the Great Depression
except
Poor banking practices
Depressed precious metal prices
European countries’ inability to pay their
debts
Overproduction in factories and on farms
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2. The “Bonus Army” marched on
Washington, D.C., to pressure
Congress to
Pass the Norris–La Guardia AntiInjunction Act to protect organized labor
Dole out federal aid to the homeless and
depressed living in “Hoovervilles”
“Your toupee is on backward”
Pay World War I veterans their army
pensions early
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3. How did Herbert Hoover
believe that the economy could
be revived?
By supporting industry in the hopes that
federal dollars at the top would “trickle down”
to the poorest Americans
Through government intervention to directly
assist the poor
By forcing Britain and France to repay their
war debts
By shifting the base of the economy away
from heavy industry toward the production of
consumer goods
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4. Why did topsoil turn to a fine layer
of infertile dust in the Dust Bowl
region of the United States?
Tornadoes had ravaged the region
Farmers had not planted soil-replenishing
crops
The area was poorly irrigated
All of the above
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5. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
won a landslide victory in 1932
because Americans
Were dissatisfied with Hoover’s
“ride-it-out” policy
Distrusted Hoover after the
“Battle of Anacostia Flats”
Wanted more direct federal
assistance
All of the above
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6. The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s
was not different from the Klan
of the Nineteenth Century
The KKK of the 1920s was also
anti-Jewish
The KKK of the 1920s was also
anti-black
The KKK of the 1920s was also
anti-immigration
All of the above
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7. What prompted the 1919–
1920 Red Scare in the United
States?
The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in
Russia
The influx of southern and
eastern European immigrants to
the United States
Eugene V. Debs and the rise of
the Socialist Party
All of the above
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8. The Eighteenth Amendment
Gave women the right to vote
Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and
consumption of alcohol
Ended Prohibition
Allowed Americans to elect U.S. senators
directly
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9. In which U.S. election were
women first allowed to vote?
1920
1924
1928
1932
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10. The Emergency Quota Act
severely reduced immigration
from
Northern Europe
Ireland and Germany
Latin America
Southern and eastern Europe
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11. What do the conspirators do
at the Senate? ?
Increased national immigration
quotas from their 1921 levels
Forbade Latin Americans from
entering the United States
Forbade Chinese immigrants
from entering the United States
Decreased national immigration
quotas from their 1921 levels
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12. The Scopes Monkey Trial
illustrated the heated debate
between
Democrats and Republicans
regarding immigration
The wets and the drys regarding
Prohibition
Liberals and conservatives
regarding the New Deal
Christian fundamentalists and
those who believed in natural
selection
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13. What caused the so-called
Roosevelt Recession of 1937?
The U.S. government’s overly
hasty retreat from deficit
spending
Overspending
Germany’s inability to repay war
reparations to Britain and France
Over-speculation in western
lands
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14. What did the 1939 Hatch Act
do?
Reduced the exorbitantly high tax on foreign
goods under the Smoot-Hawley Tariff
Barred federal officials from participating in
political campaigns
Further reduced immigration
Helped farmers by paying them to burn
surplus crops
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15. The Five-Power Naval Treaty
of 1922 reflected
Europe’s willingness to uphold the Open
Door policy in China
Japan’s willingness to scale down military
operations in Asia
Harding’s interest in protecting American
territorial possessions in the Pacific
America’s unwillingness to remain overinvolved in international affairs
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16. The Dawes Plan
Outlined Roosevelt’s three-step program
to provide relief, recovery, and reform to
end the depression
Rescheduled Germany’s war reparation
payments to Britain and France
Revitalized the financial sector of the
American economy in 1933–1934
Outlawed tribal ownership of Native
American lands
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17. Henry Ford changed
industrial America by perfecting
a method of
Horizontal integration
Assembly-line production
Vertical integration
Building machines with
interchangeable parts
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18. Why did more and more
Americans move out of the cities and
into the suburbs in
Costs of living in the city soared to
unprecedented heights
Cars allowed them to commute
Cities grew increasingly dangerous due to
the rise of organized crime
Americans feared the influx of southern and
eastern European immigrants
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19. Warren G. Harding’s
administration and personal
reputation were tainted by
The convictions of Sacco and
Vanzetti
The Scopes Monkey Trial
The Crash of 1929
The Teapot Dome scandal
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20. The Twenty-First
Amendment
Gave women the right to vote
Allowed Americans to elect U.S.
senators directly
Prohibited the manufacture, sale,
and consumption of alcohol
Ended Prohibition
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21. What did the FordneyMcCumber Tariff do?
Sparked a tariff war between the
United States and Western
Europe
Drove the tariff rate up to nearly
40 percent
Stifled the European economy
All of the above
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22. The tax on foreign goods
under the Smoot-Hawley Tariff
of 1930
Sparked the Great Depression
Was the same as the Fordney-McCumber
Tariff
Was lower than it was under the FordneyMcCumber Tariff
Was higher than it was under the FordneyMcCumber Tariff of 1922
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23. Attacks from critics such as
Huey P. Long and Father Charles
Coughlin were partly responsible
for
The Good Neighbor Policy
Prohibition
The Second New Deal
The Civilian Conservation Corps
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24. To which act was the Wagner
Act most similar?
The Hatch Act
The Norris–La Guardia AntiInjunction Act
The Fair Labor Standards Act
The Esch-Cummins
Transportation Act
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25.
One unintended consequence
of Prohibition was
Class riots in New York and Chicago
A rise in organized crime
A rise in the sale and consumption of tobacco
Republican losses in the congressional elections
of 1926
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