U.S. History Final

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Question Before and during the Great Depression, what would happen to a depositor’s money if the bank collapsed?

Answer 1 – 10 People who had deposited in the bank lost their savings.

Question President Hoover is often said to have been slow to react to the Great Depression because of his belief in “Rugged Individualism” which meant?

Answer 1 – 20 He felt that Americans working to improve their own lives had lead to America’s greatness and success, and would solve this new challenge as well.

Question These images were all caused by what man made and nature made event in the 1930’s?

Answer 1 – 30 The Dust Bowl

Question During the Great Depression, homeless people put up communities of shacks that were called?

Answer 1 – 40 Hoovervilles

Question What was the purpose/goal for the U.S. government in passing tariffs?

Answer 1 – 50 They protected U.S. businesses from foreign competition.

Question In the box that begins the ripple effect at letter E, what new consumer practice in the 1920’s (roaring 20’s) led to this downward spiral in the American economy? E Consumers/Workers reaction Effect on Workers Industries’ Reaction Effect on Industry A B C D

Answer 2 – 10 Consumers bought new/modern conveniences on credit and acquired large debts.

Question Letter A in this diagram should be read?

Answer 2 – 20 Stop buying goods

Question Letter B in this diagram should read? E Consumers/Workers reaction Effect on Workers Industries’ Reaction Effect on Industry A B C D

Answer 2 – 30 Overproducing goods

Question Letter C in this diagram should read? E Consumers/Workers reaction Effect on Workers Industries’ Reaction Effect on Industry A B C D

Answer 2 – 40 Cut production, cut prices, lay off workers

Question Letter D in this diagram should read? E Consumers/Workers reaction Effect on Workers Industries’ Reaction Effect on Industry A B C D

Answer 2 – 50 Lost jobs and therefore no income to spend.

Question Elected to the Presidency in 1932, he took America through the Depression and also World War II?

Answer 3 – 10 Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question FDR’s plan for ending the Great Depression through massive deficit spending programs was called?

Answer 3 – 20 The “New Deal”

Question This Depression era program/agency employed men ages to work for the forestry and parks service for $30 a month?

Answer 3 – 30 Civilian Conservation Corps. - CCC

Question This Depression era program worked to build dams in the south in order to provide cheap electricity, irrigation and jobs to some of the poorest rural areas in the country?

Answer 3 – 40 Tennessee Valley Authority - TVA

Question This Depression era program employed millions of workers building roads, bridges, schools, hospitals and even provided funding for public art?

Answer 3 – 50 Works Progress Administration - WPA

Question This Depression era program attempted to control farm production in order to raise prices, slaughtering pigs, plowing up crops and dumping milk which could have been fed to the hungry?

Answer 4 – 10 Agricultural Adjustment Administration - AAA

Question This Depression era agency was created to help restore faith in the banking system, providing a guarantee for the money that we put into a bank (It still exists today)?

Answer 4 – 20 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation - FDIC

Question Why did FDR propose his “Court Packing” plan for adding more Supreme Court Justices to the court?

Answer 4 – 30 The Supreme Court had begun to rule many New Deal programs unconstitutional and FDR feared they would undo it all.

Question The decrease in the unemployment numbers during the Great Depression can be deceiving/tricky because…?

Answer 4 – 40 Many of the jobs being created were only temporary government relief jobs, not meant to be long term.

Question FDR’s regular radio addresses to the nation to inform people of what he was trying to accomplish were called…?

Answer 4 – 50 Fireside Chats

Question The most likely reason for the unemployment rate more than doubling between is…?

Answer 5 – 10 “Black Tuesday” and overproduction mixed with underconsumption in America. The beginning of the Great Depression.

Question The end of the Great Depression was ultimately brought about by…?

Answer 5 – 20 World War II

Question Explain how each of the following contributed to hard times for American farmers during the 1920’s and led to the Dust Bowl. Wheat prices Poor farming practices (hint: native grasses) Nature/natural forces

Answer 5 – 30

Question Though most historians agree that the “New Deal” did not lift America out of the Great Depression, what was FDR able to do for America through his New Deal Programs?

Answer 5 – 40 The New Deal provided hope to Americans who felt there was no hope. While times were tough, people felt the government was at least doing something to try to end their suffering.

Question During World War II, Americans bought over $150 billion worth of liberty and victory bonds in order to?

Answer 5 – 50 Lend the government money to pay for the war.