CHAPTER 23 BOYD

Many Americans angry at their government began calling shanty towns built by the unemployed on the outskirts of cities

"Hoovervilles"

During the Great Depression, unemployment in the United States peaked at an estimated

25 percent

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

80 percent

John Steinbeck

Author of Grapes of Wrath; about the Dust Bowl

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

California

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

Communist Party

Hindenburg

Giant zeppelin that crashed over New Jersey, broadcasted over radio

This magazine was the leading photographic journal in the 1930s.

Life magazine

The Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930

Tariff that raised important duties to protect American businesses and farmers

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

Vice president of the United States

Orsen Wells

War of the Worlds; utilized sound in an immersive way on the radio

In the 1930s, the director Frank Capra typically displayed in his films

a populist admiration for ordinary Americans.

The 1931 Scottsboro court case saw

black teenagers accused of rape by two white women.

All of the following factors were causes of the Great Depression EXCEPT

conservative banking policies that restricted the availability of loans.

As Herbert Hoover began his presidency, he

considered the country to have a bright economic future.

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

declining

During the Great Depression,

divorce rate declined

As the depression deepened, President Herbert Hoover

grew less willing to increase federal spending.

During the Great Depression, Asian Americans

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

In response to the Great Depression, many Mexican Americans

left the United States entirely.

During the 1930s, in regards to radio,

listening was often a community experience.

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

lost a significant portion of its membership.

On October 29, 1929 (Black Tuesday) the American stock market

lost all the gains of the previous year.

During the 1930s, American literature

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

During the Great Depression, in the rural United States

one-third of all farmers lost their land

In 1931, the severity of the depression increased 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 with the outgoing president, Herbert Hoover.

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

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

For women, the economic pressures caused by the Great Depression

saw men move into jobs traditionally held by professional women.

Throughout 1928, the American stock market

saw the number of shares traded daily soar.

As a result of the Great Depression, the 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 1932, Franklin Roosevelt's promise of a "new deal" for America included a commitment to

spend billions of dollars to assist in the economic recovery, provide relief jobs to millions of unemployed Americans, pass legislation establishing a nationwide program of social security. (none correct)

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

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

The Hoover administration addressed the economic situation of American farmers with

the Agricultural Marketing Act.

The "Abraham Lincoln Brigade" is to be associated with

the Spanish Civil War.

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

the use of six tanks to rout the veterans from Washington, General Douglas MacArthur exceeding his orders to remove the veterans, the injuring of over 100 marchers. (all correct)

In the 1930s, Hollywood films

typically portrayed women as wives and mothers.

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

urging voluntary cooperation from business leaders.

Franklin Roosevelt's victory over Herbert Hoover in 1932

was a convincing mandate

In the 1930s, the "Dust Bowl"

was a product of changing environmental conditions.

In 1932, the Farmers' Holiday Association

was essentially a farmers' strike

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation

was to provide federal loans to troubled banks and businesses, was created in the last year of Herbert Hoover's administration, included a $1.5 billion public works budget. (all correct) failed because feared deficit spending!

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

were denied all forms of public relief assistance, generally experienced better economic conditions, could still find domestic service jobs no whites wanted.(none are correct)