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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a cause of the stock market crash of 1929? | Investors made risky investments with borrowed money |
| Which group would not be considered "the deserving poor" by social welfare groups and humanitarians in the 1930's? | Stock speculators |
| Which protest was directly related to federal policies and created a negative public image of Hoover? | The Bonus Expeditionary Force |
| Which of the following groups or bodies did not offer direct relief to needy people? | The federal government |
| Which of the following hardships did African Americans not typically face during the Great Depression? | Widespread race riots in large urban centers |
| Which of the following was not a key factor leading to the Dust Bowl? | Decreasing American demand for farm produce |
| Which assessment of hoover's presidency is most accurate | Although he did not cause the stock market crash, Hoover deserves criticism for his inadequate response to it |
| Which of the following phrases best characterizes Herbert Hoover's foreign policy agenda? | Mutual respect-supporting others when called upon, but not interfering unnecessarily |
| which of the following best describes Roosevelt's attempts to push his political agenda in the last months of Hoover's presidency? | Roosevelt awaited his inauguration before introducing any plans |
| Which of the following policies did Roosevelt not include among his early ideas for a New Deal? | Elimination of the gold standard |
| Which of the following was not a policy undertaken by the NIRA | Agreement among industries to reinvest profits into their firms |
| What type of help did the CWA provide | Employment opportunities |
| Which of the following statements accurately describes Mary McLeod Bethune | She was a key figure in the NYA |
| The social security act borrowed some ideas from which of the following | The Townsend Plan |
| What was the first New Deal agency to hire women openly? | WPA (works progress administration) |
| What was on October 29, 1929, when a mass panic caused a crash in the stock market? | Black Tuesday |
| The withdrawal by a large number of individuals or investors of money from a bank due to fears of the bank's instability | Bank run |
| A group of world war 1 veterans who marched to Washington in 1932 to demand their war bonuses early | Bonus Army |
| Hoover's repudiation of the Roosevelt Corollary that justified American military intervention in latin American affairs | Clark Memorandum |
| The area in the middle of the country that had been badly overfarmed in the 1920s and suffered from a terrible drought that coincided with the Great Depression | Dust bowl |
| A reference to the infamous trial in Scottsboro where nine African American boys were falsely accused of r*ing two white women and sentenced to death | Scottsboro boys |
| The tariff approved by Hoover to raise the tax on thousands of imported goods in the hope that it would encourage people to buy American made products | Smoot-Hawley tariff |
| An unofficial advisory cabinet to Franklin Roosevelt who gathered to present possible solutions to the nations problems | Brains Trust |
| A public program for unemployed young men from relief families who were put to work on conservation and land management projects around the country | Civilian conservation corps |
| Period between the election and inauguration of a new president | Interregnum |
| Series of programs designed to help the population's most vulnerable | social security |
| Roosevelt's plan, after being reelected, to pack the Supreme Court with an additional six justices, one for every justice over seventy who refused to step down | Supreme Court packing plan |
| Federal agency tasked with the job of planning and developing the area through flood control, reforestation, and hydroelectric power projects | Tennessee Valley Authority |
| Program run by Harry Hopkins that provided jobs for over eight million Americans from its inception | Works progress administration |
| Created the New Deal program, and expanded government's role in the economy | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Believed in voluntarism and limited government, his policies inspired later reforms by contrast | Herbert hoover |
| FDR's close advisory and head of WPA | Harry Hopkins |
| First female cabinet member | Frances Perkins |
| Head of the Division of Negro Affairs within the NYA | Mary McLeod Bethune |
| First Lady and strong advocate for civil rights, women's rights, and the poor | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| Louisiana Senator; proposed "share our wealth"; popular critic of FDR | Huey Long |
| Proposed the Townsend Plan | Francis Townsend |
| Author of The Jungle | Upton Sinclair |
| Photographer for the farm security administration | Dorothea Lange |
| African American singer denied Constitution Hall by the DAR in 1939 | Marian Anderson |
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