APUSH CH 23

The Hoover administration addressed the economic situation of American farmers with the

Agricultural Marketing Act.

During the 1930s, the left in the United States

All these answers are correct.

In the 1930s, all the following books offered criticism of American society EXCEPT

Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen.

Although it was a segregated organization, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union sought to improve the lives of all sharecroppers.

False

American social values were changed dramatically by the Great Depression.

False

Both the Agricultural Marketing Act and the Hawley-Smoot Tariff provided significant help to American farmers.

False

As the Depression began, more than half of all black Americans still lived in the South.

True

In the late 1920s, the European demand for agricultural and manufacturing goods from the United States was

declining

As the depression deepened, President Herbert Hoover

grew less willing to increase federal spending.

In 1932, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

lent funds only to financial institutions with sufficient collateral.

During the 1930s, regarding radio,

listening was often a community experience.

During the Great Depression in the rural United States,

one-third of all farmers lost their land.

After Democrats won control of Congress in the 1930 elections, President Herbert Hoover

refused to support a more vigorous public spending program for relief.

In 1932, the unemployment rate in Toledo, Ohio was one of the worst in the nation, at

80 percent.

In the 1930s, the largest Japanese American and Chinese American populations were found in

California

Despite hard economic times in the United States, few Hispanics left for Mexico during the Great Depression.

False

The staple of radio broadcasting during the 1930s was news.

False

In the 1930s, all of the following films offered social commentary on the United States and the Great Depression, EXCEPT

It Happened One Night.

During the 1930s, the American Communist Party

None of these answers is correct.

In 1932, Franklin Roosevelt's promise of a "new deal" for America included a commitment to

None of these answers is correct.

The Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930

None of these answers is correct.

Erskine Caldwell's ________, which later became a long-running Broadway play, was an exposé of poverty in the rural South.

Tobacco Road

At the end of the 1930s, a higher percentage of black women were employed than were white women.

True

During the 1920s, most American banks were quite conservative, but some major banks were quite reckless in their stock market investments.

True

Franklin Roosevelt won in a landslide in 1932, but it was not clear what he would do as president.

True

In 1928, Herbert Hoover predicted an end to poverty in America was near.

True

In 1932, the Supreme Court overturned the convictions of the "Scottsboro boys."

True

In national politics, Franklin Roosevelt had generally avoided divisive cultural issues.

True

In the 1930s, listening to the radio was often a family or community experience.

True

In the year prior to its crash, the stock market had been soaring upward.

True

Much of the money lent by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation went to large banks and corporations.

True

Popular culture in the 1930s held that married women should not work outside the home.

True

President Hoover did attempt to use federal spending to fight the Great Depression.

True

The "Bonus Army" of 1932 demanded that Congress make an early payment of a promised "bonus" for World War I veterans.

True

The automobile and construction industries were both experiencing economic declines prior to the stock market crash.

True

The last of the Scottsboro defendants was not freed until 1950.

True

Those blacks who migrated to northern cities during the Great Depression found conditions little better than in the South.

True

Traditional patterns of segregation and disenfranchisement in the South were not significantly challenged during the Great Depression.

True

Under the Popular Front, American Communists softened their criticism of capitalism.

True

The long-time censor of Hollywood films in the 1920s and 1930s was

Will Hays.

The 1930s films of director Frank Capra typically displayed

a populist admiration for ordinary Americans.

In the 1931 Scottsboro court case,

black teenagers were accused of rape by two white women.

The federal government's response to the "Bonus Army" included

both the use of six tanks to rout the veterans from Washington, and the injuring of over 100 marchers.

All the following factors contributed to the Great Depression EXCEPT

conservative banking policies that restricted the availability of loans.

As Herbert Hoover began his presidency, he

considered the country's economic future bright.

During the 1930s, southern rural blacks who moved to northern urban areas

generally experienced conditions that were in most respects little better than in the South.

In response to the Great Depression, many Mexican Americans

left the United States entirely.

In 1939, after the Soviet Union signed a nonaggression pact with Nazi Germany, the American Communist Party

lost a significant portion of its membership.

During the 1930s, American literature

offered a greater degree of social commentary than did either radio or movies.

The severity of the Depression increased in 1931 when the Federal Reserve Board

raised interest rates.

After 1929, in the face of the worsening global economic crisis, the United States

refused to alter the payment schedule of debts owed by European nations to America.

Between his election in 1932 and the inauguration in 1933, Franklin Roosevelt

refused to make any agreements on the economic direction of the country with the outgoing president, Herbert Hoover.

The economic pressures caused by the Great Depression

saw men move into jobs traditionally held by professional women.

Beginning in February 1928 and lasting through most of 1929, the American stock market

saw the number of shares traded daily soar.

As a result of the Great Depression, social values in the United States

seemed to change relatively little.

During the 1930s, the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union

sought to organize the rural poor across racial lines.

In the 1930s, Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People

taught that individual initiative could help people to restore themselves financially.

All of the following statements regarding the 1932 "Bonus Army" are true EXCEPT that

the "Army" demanded Congress create relief programs for World War I veterans.

The Abraham Lincoln Brigade is associated with

the Spanish Civil War.

During the Great Depression,

the divorce rate declined.

President Herbert Hoover responded to the onset of the Great Depression by

urging a program of voluntary cooperation from business leaders.

Prior to 1932, Franklin Roosevelt had been all of the following EXCEPT

vice president of the United States.

Franklin Roosevelt's victory over Herbert Hoover in 1932

was a convincing mandate.

The "Dust Bowl" in the 1930s

was a product of changing environmental conditions.

In 1932, the Farmers' Holiday Association

was essentially a farmers' strike.

Prior to 1932, Franklin Roosevelt had never held elective office.

False

During the Great Depression, Asian Americans

had trouble competing for jobs with poor white migrants from the Midwest.

As the Depression progressed, popular literature and journalism came to be dominated by a group of writers who openly challenged the American way of life.

False

Farm strikes in the Midwest during the Great Depression were initially successful.

False

Following the "great crash," the Federal Reserve system lowered interest rates in an effort to revive the American economy.

False

In order to ease economic problems in Europe, the U.S. government reduced Europe's debts to America stemming from World War I.

False

It is accurate to state that filmmaker Frank Capra admired the American people and praised the capitalist marketplace.

False

Prior to his inauguration, Franklin Roosevelt promised outgoing President Hoover that he would not create more debt in the federal budget.

False

The Great Depression was caused by the stock market crash of October 1929.

False

The power of censors in the film industry declined as the Depression progressed.

False

During the 1930s, the American Communist Party was always under the close supervision of the Soviet Union.

True

During the Great Depression, both the marriage rate and the divorce rate declined.

True

Farm income declined by 60 percent between 1929 and 1932.

True

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)

included a $1.5 billion public works budget, and was created to provide federal loans to troubled banks and businesses.

During the 1930s, the most important group within the Popular Front was

the Communist Party.