Ch. 17/18 Test
  • 1. This 1930 law, passed while Herbert Hoover was president, raised American's taxes on imported goods to very high levels.
A) Tennessee Valley Authority
B) Glass Stegall Banking Act
C) Public Works Administration
D) Smoot-Hawley Tariff
  • 2. As a result of this law, which helped provide electricity and flood control to people living in the Southeastern U.S.
A) Smoot-Hawley Tariff
B) (TVA) Tennessee Valley Authority
C) Emergency Banking Bill
D) Agriculture Adjustment Act
  • 3. This law protected depositors money by creating the FDIC which protected depositseven if a bank failed.
A) Glass Stegall Banking Act
B) Social Security Act
C) Public Works Administration
D) Emergency Banking Bill
  • 4. This was the first New Deal law. It helped depositors and bankers by stopping the panic runs which were devastating the banking industry.
A) Securities and Exchange Commission
B) Smoot-Hawley Tariff
C) National Labor Relations Act
D) Emergency Banking Bill
  • 5. This law protected farmers from foreclosure and decreased farm production by giving farmers money to not work.
A) Social Security Act
B) Glass Stegall Banking Act
C) Emergency Banking Act
D) (AAA) Agricultural Adjustment Act
  • 6. This law helped elderly Americans (retirees) by providing a guarenteed pension.
A) National Labor Relations Act
B) Emergency Banking Bill
C) Social Security Act
D) Tennessee Valley Authroity
  • 7. This law helped millions of unemployed men by providing jobs for unemployed Americans on large building projects like highways, dams, bridges, etc.
A) Smoot-Hawley Tariff
B) Social Security Act
C) Emergency Banking Bill
D) Public Works Administration
  • 8. One way this law helped union members was by giving labor unions the right to bargain collectively.
A) Tennessee Valley Authority
B) National Labor Relations Act
C) Public Works Administration
D) Agricultural Adjustment Act
  • 9. This agency helped protect investors by policing American stock markets to prevent fraud
A) Glass Stegall Banking Act
B) (SEC) Securities and Exchange Commision
C) Smoot-Hawley Tariff
D) Social Security Act
  • 10. He was president when the Great Depression began. He and his fellow Republicans were often blamed for the Great Depression
A) Francis Townsend
B) Herbert Hoover
C) Charles Coughlin
D) Eleanor Roosevelt
  • 11. This Catholic priest criticized FDR's programs on his national radio program
A) Charles Caughlin
B) Eleanor Roosevelt
C) Francis Townsend
D) Herbert Hoover
  • 12. FDR's wife greatly enhanced the postion of First Lady. Her name was ______.
A) Charles Coughlin
B) Francis Townsend
C) Herbert Hoover
D) Eleanor Roosevelt
  • 13. This medical doctor came up with a pension plan during the Great Depression that he believed would reduce the elderly from poverty. Cogress rejected his plan.
A) Francis Townsend
B) Charles Coughlin
C) Herbert Hoover
D) Eleanor Roosevelt
  • 14. The first thing that President Roosevelt wanted to do after being sworn into office as President in 1933 was
A) resore confidence in the banking system
B) to reinstate his predecessor's laissez faire principles of government
C) t launch his reelection bid known as the "Hundred Days"
D) assemble a team of advisors who could all agree upon needed policies
  • 15. Which of the following correctly describes the word "Speculation"?
A) resulted in banks being forced into bankruptcy by depositors attempting to all withdraw thier money at once
B) was money paid to help unemployed or poor citizens
C) buying stockstrying to make a quick profit
D) is a item of value offered to a lender to guarantee that a loan will be repaid
  • 16. Which of the following Depression era people is described CORRECTLY?
A) Hoover was re-elected as President in 1932
B) FDR was president on "Black Tuesday" in 1929
C) Senator Huey Long from Louisiana advocated the Share Our Wealth Program
  • 17. Choose the statement that is TRUE.
A) the stock market increased in value during the Great Depression
B) farmers became rich during the Great Depression
C) the shantytowns built by the homeless people who lost their homes during the Great Depressoin were called Hoovervilles
D) the Dust Bowl was a tremendous drought that hurt farmers in the Eastern US for more than 5 years in the 30s
  • 18. Which disease dramatically shaped FDR because of his personal battle with the effects of the disease?
A) Cancer
B) Pneumonia
C) Polio
D) Heart Disease
E) Yellow Fever
  • 19. Which of the following BEST describes President Hoover's laissez faire philosphy in dealing with the Great Depression
A) the federal government should provide billions of federal tax dollars to help poor Americans who were unemployed
B) the federal government should raise taxes and increase spending on federal programs to help the poor, the hungry, and the unemployed
C) the president should use the power of government to fight the effects of the Great Depression
D) the federal government should NOT give direct assistance to Americans who were unemployed
  • 20. Which of the following groups traditionally voted for Republican candidates before FDR's New Deal, but began voting for Democratic candidates during the 1930s?
A) Progressives
B) White Men
C) The wealthy
D) African Americans
  • 21. The reason that bank collapses had such a devastating effect during the early years of the Great Depression was because?
A) depositors lost their savings
B) banks were protected by FDIC
C) investors were forced to pay higher interest rates
D) bankers were getting wealthy off of the misery of depositors
  • 22. What was the significance of October 29, 1929?
A) this was when the US entered WW II ending the Great Depression
B) athis was Black Tuesday when the stock market crashed
C) this was when the Smoot-Hawley tariff was passed in Congress
D) this was when FDR was elected as president
  • 23. Which of the following was NOT one of the effects of the Stock Market Crash?
A) the stock panic caused a bank panic
B) prices; farmers got rose because desperate people needed food
C) banks foreclosed on loans and repossessed food
D) thousands of investors were foreced into bankruptcy
  • 24. Which of the following is NOT true of the Great Depression?
A) the banking system remained strong in spite of the economic downturn
B) this depression was the worst economic disaster in US History
C) President Hoover's Republican party was blamed by the American voters
D) there were high levels of unemployment and large numbers of bankruptcies
  • 25. FDR's "Court Packing" plan...
A) was a Congressional attempt to reduce the power of the US SupremeCourt
B) involved the attempt to place six more judges on the U.S. Supreme Court
C) was successful
D) was never attempted
  • 26. All of the following were voters for FDR, EXCEPT which group?
A) Wealth Americans
B) Progressives
C) Farmers
D) Women
E) African Americans
  • 27. In 1937 FDR decided he wanted to "Pack" the Supreme Court because he...
A) did not like the Court declaring his New Deal laws unconstitutional
B) wanted Congress to decrease the power of the US Supreme Court
C) wanted to use the Supreme Court to protect his New Deal programs from Congress
D) was concerned about the health of Supreme Court justices and was therefore trying to get some of the older justices to retire
  • 28. Choose the correct statement about the Depression years.
A) the New Deal ended the Great Depression
B) during the worst year of the Great Depression 25% of the American workforce was unemployed
C) FDR was elected three times and served 8 years as President
D) the New Deal would best be described as a collection of laws passed during the 1930s
  • 29. By the time FDR became President, approximately ____________ banks had already failed, and approximately _________ percent of American workers were unemployed.
A) 2,000/ 30
B) 4,000/ 30
C) 3,000/ 20
D) 3,000/ 25
  • 30. The Bonus Army was a group of unemployed World War I Veterans who demanded _______
A) that the U.S. go to war with Japan
B) Federal government action to end the Great Depression
C) that President Hoover resign from Office
D) their pension from the government in 1932
  • 31. The Grapes of Wrath was a book written ________
A) about the hard times that average Americans faced in the 1930s
B) none of these answer choices
C) to explain the wine-making process in the 1930s
D) by the president to explain how the Great Depression began
  • 32. The Great Depression approximately lasted ________ years.
A) 4 years
B) 13 years
C) 9 years
D) 15 years
  • 33. Money given to the poor during hard economic times is called _______
A) relief
B) disgraceful
C) inflation
D) bank run
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