Apush Unit 9
The Great Depression was caused by all of the following factors except...
American industries and banks were not involved in European economy
A sociological study of Muncie, Indiana, in the mid-1930's found that...
American still remained committed to the traditional value of individualism
Critics of Roosevelt and the New Deal included all of the following except...
Governor William Green
Literary works of the 1930's that addressed the social problems of the Depression included all of the following novels except...
Harvey Allen's Anthony Adverse
In a 1935 case involving a local poultry business, the Supreme Court ruled that the NRA was...
unconstitutional, because it violated both the interstate commerce clause and the legislative powers clause of the Constitution
All of the following statements about women in the depression are true except...
women experienced a significant increase in gaining opportunities for jobs in professional fields of work
During 1930 and 1931, Hoover's situation deteriorated even further because...
all of the answers above
During the Depression, black Americans suffered special hardships, which were caused by...
all of the answers above
The Civilian Conservation Corps pursued the objective of...
all of the answers above
The establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority was based on the political theory that the federal government should...
become the chief architect of economic planning
The "black cabinet" was...
civil rights' activists who influenced the thinking of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt
In an attempt to solve the most critical problem of the economy, Roosevelt's first action after taking office was to...
close the banks for a four-day holiday
The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 significantly and permanently changed the economic structure of the American agriculture by...
committing the federal government to subsidizing farm prices up to the parity level
Roosevelt's strongest asset in restoring confidence to the American public was his...
confidence, optimism, and ability in public relations
Popular protest against the New Deal promoted all of the following new programs except...
guaranteed annual income
Although blacks and Hispanics suffered similar hardships during the Depression, the Hispanics encountered the additional problem of...
having little access to public schools and hospitals
The goals of the Tennessee Valley Authority included all of the following except...
improving railroad transportation
Hoover responded to the domestic crisis in 1931 by asking Congress to...
increase funding for financial institutions to prevent mortgage foreclosure
The National Industrial Recovery Act encountered all of the following serious problems except...
industrial prices did not change
The "broker state," which developed during the New Deal, was based on the idea that the federal government should...
intervene in the battle between interest groups, helping some and limiting others, to keep them equal in power
The historians who analyzed the New Deal offered all of the following positive interpretations except...
it changed the prevailing political ideas enough that conservatives would be on the defensive thereafter
The historians who analyzed the New Deal offered all of the following negative interpretations except...
it helped to destroy the American tradition of political and social individualism
The primary intent of the National Industrial Recovery Act was to...
keep prices stable on industrial goods
When the "Little Steel" companies used violence against the unions at the "Memorial Day Massacre" of 1937, the event was significant because it was the..
last major management victory achieved through brutal strikebreaking tactics
The collapse of the international credit structure in the early 1930's was fostered by the U.s. policy of...
loaning less money to foreign countries
During the Depression, the cause of equal rights for blacks was advanced when...
many blacks were allowed to join labor unions
During the Depression, American families experienced all of the following except...
marriage rate increased to save on cost of living separately
The final outcome of the "Bonus Army" march was that Congress gave the marchers...
nothing, and the president authorized the use of military force to make them leave
Commercial films of the 1930's were...
often deliberately and explicitly escapist
During the summer of 1932, the bad conditions produced by the Depression cause some farmers to engage in...
organizing a strike in an effort to keep their crops from market
The creation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) changed the labor movement by...
organizing workers by industry rather than craft
Although the Supreme Court struck down the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, the Roosevelt administration replaced it with a new law that...
paid farmers to keep land out of production to converse soil and prevent erosion
The purpose of the "Bonus Army" march into Washington D.C. in 1932 was to...
persuade Congress to approve the early payment of bonuses due to World War I veterans
In his first month in office, Roosevelt restored public confidence in the banking system by...
persuading Congress to pass the Emergency Baking Act which permitted solvent banks to operate
During the mid-1930's, some powerful American criticized the New Deal for all of the following reasons except...
preventing urban crime and violence
The purpose of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation was to...
provide federal loans to troubled banks, railroads, and other big businesses
Between 1929 and 1932, farmers in the Dust Bowl of the South and Midwest experienced all of the following problems except...
rapidly rising prices
By the end of the 1930's, the American feminist movement had...
reached its lowest point in nearly a century
One of the Hoover administration's major failings in dealing with the Depression was its...
reluctance to spend large amounts of federal funds
The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 changed government policy toward tribes by...
returning political authority to the tribes and allowing them to own land collectively
One of the most successful New Deal programs for farmers was...
rural electrification
In response to the Depression, American social values...
seemed to change relatively little
In their battle with DM, the United Auto Workers developed the effective new technique of...
sit-down strikes
The final outcome of the battle over Roosevelt's "court-packing" plan was that the Supreme Court...
stopped overturning New Deal legislation, but the New Deal coalition splintered
During the New Deal, blacks became strong supporters of the Democratic party because...
the New Deal relief agencies included blacks as recipients
The election of 1932 saw all of the following events except...
the Republicans dumped Herbert Hoover in a desperate attempt to avoid defeat
Between the election in late 1932 and the inauguration in early 1933...
the banking industry began to collapse
During the Depression, people who lived in the industrial Northeast and Midwest experienced...
the collapse of city and state relief systems
The steady rise in stock prices between the spring of 1928 and the fall of 1929 was caused by...
the easy credit policies of brokerage firms
In adopting the policy of government-managed currency, the New Deal determined that the value of the U.S. dollar would be set by...
the economic circumstances at any given time
During the 1930's, the Socialist party of America was led by...
Norman Thomas
By 1936, Roosevelt had succeeding in creating a new Democratic coalition, which was composed of all of the following groups except...
Northern middle classes
During the Depression, intellectual writers, popular writers, and photographers portrayed the distress of certain groups of Americans. the primary group addressed by these efforts was the...
Southern farm families
The American Communist party of the 1930's was engaged in promoting all of the following activities except...
a challenge to the Soviet policies of Stalin
The closing of over 9000 American banks between 1930 and 1933 resulted in...
a decrease in the money supply
During the election of 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt gained the public's attention by emphasizing all of the following ideas except...
a definite plan for economic recovery
When dealing with the interests of women, the New Deal...
accepted the prevailing cultural norm of women as secondary to the male in the workplace
The rise of labor unions in the 1930's was due to all of the following causes except..
the increasing influence of skilled workers in unions
In comparison to other federal work relief agencies, the Works Progress Administration was...
the largest and most permanent employer
Although Roosevelt has opposition fro the left and the right during the 1936 election, he has no problem winning re-election for all of the following reasons except...
the main leader of the right was implicated in a scandal
The National Labor Relations Act protected workers by providing them with...
the power to form unions and engage in collective bargaining
The Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929 failed to improve conditions for farmers because...
the program relied on voluntary cooperation rather than on federal control
In the Scottsboro case of the 1930's, all of the following events occurred except...
the youths eventually were acquitted by one of the juries that heard the case
The original creator of social security thought of it as...
"insurance," with benefits based on paying those who earned the money by making contributions
During the Depression, women in the workforce experienced a change in their situation, in that...
20% more women were working
According to a crude estimate, the unemployment rate in 1932 at the height of the Depression was...
25%
The following pairs match New Deal agencies with their primary purpose. The incorrect pair is...
Civil Works Administration--provide permanent jobs in the construction of government office buildings
Roosevelt's early attempts to convince the business community that the federal government was in responsible hands was illustrated by the...
Economy Act
Radio broadcasters reached a wide Depression Era audience with this popular programming, except...
Emmy Awards show
Herbert Hoover's early response to the Depression included all of the following actions except...
Lowering tariffs in order to encourage foreigners to buy American products
The "Roosevelt recession" may have been the result of...
Roosevelt's decision to cut spending
Dale Carnegie's 1936 best seller, How to Win Friends and Influence People promoted the principle that...
adaptability to one's environment and making others feel important are more effective routes to success
During the Depression, many Americans reacted by...
all of the above
The section of the country that received more federal funds per capita than any other region was the...
West
Between May 1928 and September 1929, the prices of the stocks of the major industries...
doubled in value
One of the goals of the Japanese-Americans Citizen League was to...
encourage Nisei to become more assimilated to American culture
The WPA included all of the following programs, except...
enrolling workers in the military after the completion of projects
The most popular radio shows, movies, and literature of the Depression reflected America's desire to...
escape the economic problems of the day
In his inaugural address, Franklin Roosevelt told Americans that they had "nothing to fear but...
fear itself"
One of the problems with the New Deal work relief system was that...
females received more case assistance but less work relief than men