1. Great Depression and Roaring Twenties Review

2. Questions (T/F)
In the late 1920s, there were no signs of the upcoming economic crash: FALSE
Many Americans borrowed money in order to buy stock: TRUE
The 1929 stock market crash was the direct cause of the Great Depression: TRUE
Farmers were largely unaffected by the Depression: FALSE
Overproduction was one of the major causes of the Great Depression: True
The Republican Presidents favored tax cuts to the wealthy and little government regulation of business to help promote economic growth: TRUE
Many farmers who left the Dust Bowl found gainful employment in factories in the cities: TRUE
All Americans shared equally in the economic boom of the 1920s: FALSE

3. Questions (T/F)
Banks failed during the Depression, but not many businesses did. (FALSE)
The high tariffs (taxes on imports) set by the US government during the 1920s helped create a large volume of trade both to and from the U.S. (TRUE)
Relief Program’s had little impact on NC’s people (TRUE)
THE AA ordered the “plow up” of perfectly good crops. (TRUE)

4. Question
During the 1920s, young women did what?

5. Answer Voted in elections Cut their hair and wear short skirts
Smoke, drink, and listen to jazz music

6. Question
For many Americans, the 1920s were a time of

7. ANswer
Raising living standards

8. Question
“Margin Buying” means

9. Answer
Buying stock in a company with borrowed money

10. Question
“Black Tuesday”, or Tuesday October 29, 1929 is remembered as the day when

11. Answer
The stock market crashed in a great wave of selling

12. Question
The Great Depression….

13. Answer
Lasted longer than any other economic depression in American History

14. Question
What were the major purposes of Roosevelt’s New Deal programs?

15. Answer Relief for the hungry and homeless
Recovery of the nation’s economic health
Reform of banking and the stock market

16. Question
The New Deal Program that helps almost all Americans today is the

17. Answer
Social Security Act

18. Question
As a result of the Great Depression and the New Deal, most Americans agreed that one of the federal government’s most important responsibilities was

19. Answer
Care for citizens in need

20. Question
The NRA came up with a code of _______________________ to help regulate industry

21. Answer
Conduct

22. Question
The President who was in control for most of the Great Depression was

23. Answer
Herbert Hoover

24. QUestion
A major factor leading to the Dust Bowl was

25. Answer
A drought that lead to dust storms which destroyed crops

26. QUestion
Roosevelt’s plan to bring the country out of the depression was called

27. ANswer
The New Deal

28. Questions Who is the doctor in the cartoon?
What problem is the doctor treating?
This cartoon was probably published…

29. Answers
Franklin Roosevelt
The economic depression
During the New Deal

30. QUestion
In the early 1930s, may communities of homeless Americans were referred to as “Hoovervilles” because President Hoover

31. Answer
Opposed direct federal aid for the unemployed.

32. Question
As a way of criticizing the federal government during the early 1930s, areas such as those shown in the photograph were referred to as

33. Answer
Hoovervilles

34. QUestions
Much of the economic growth in the 1920s was created by

35. Answer
Sales of new consumer goods

36. Question
Jim Crow Laws were passed

37. ANswer Passed after the American Civil War
Included restaurants, hotels, and other public places
Were instituted in 1896 and were not abolished until the 1950s

38. Question Dreams Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
— Langston Hughes
This poem, written during the Harlem Renaissance, was most likely meant to encourage African Americans to

39. Answer
Look to the future

40. Question
The new concept of ________________________________ lead to people spending money they did not have.

41. Answer
Credit

42. QUestion
WWI lead to the Great Depression because

43. Answer
The United States was a major credit loaner to other nations in need
Many of the nations loaned money could not pay the United States back.

44. Question
The President at the start of the Great Depression was

45. Answer
Herbert Hoover

46. Question
Hoover’s philosophy during the Great Depression was

47. Answer
“We’ll make it”

48. Passage
During the last three months I have visited, as I said, some twenty states of this wonderfully rich land and beautiful country. Here are some of the things I heard and saw…
A number of Montana citizens told me thousands of bushels of wheat left uncut on account of its low price that hardly paid for harvesting…while I was in Oregon, the Portland Oregonian bemoaned the fact that thousands of female sheep were killed by the sheep raisers because they did not bring enough in the market to pay the freight on them. And while Oregon sheep raisers fed mutton to the buzzards, I met men picking for meat scraps in the garbage cans of New York City and Chicago…
The roads of the West and Southwest teem with hungry hitchhikers…I saw men, women and children walking over the hard roads. Most of them were tenant farmers who had lost their all…
The farmers are being pauperized by the poverty of industrial populations, and the industrial populations are being pauperized by the poverty of farmers. Neither has the money to buy the product of the other…
I have not come here to stir you in a recital of the necessity for relief for our suffering fellow citizens. However, unless something is done for them and done soon, you will have a revolution on your hands.
Testimony of newspaper editor Oscar Ameringer

49. Questions What fact is found in the passage?
Which opinion is found here?
The word “pauperize” in the passage means to
The passage ends with

50. Answers People are scavenging for food
No one should be hungry and homeless in this rich land
Impoverish or make poor
A warning to Congress to act soon or risk revolution