APUSH Ch.23
During the 1930s, the left in the United States
All these answers are correct.
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.
During the 1930s, the most important group within the Popular Front was
the Communist Party.
Prior to 1932, Franklin Roosevelt had been all of the following EXCEPT
vice president of the United States.
The Hoover administration addressed the economic situation of American farmers with the
Agricultural Marketing Act.
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.
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, all the following books offered criticism of American society EXCEPT
Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen.
In the 1930s, all of the following films offered social commentary on the United States and the Great Depression, EXCEPT
It Happened One Night.
Erskine Caldwell's ________, which later became a long-running Broadway play, was an exposé of poverty in the rural South.
Tobacco Road
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.
In the 1930s, the largest Japanese American and Chinese American populations were found in
cali
As Herbert Hoover began his presidency, he
considered the country's economic future bright.
In response to the Great Depression, many Mexican Americans
left the United States entirely.
During the 1930s, American literature
offered a greater degree of social commentary than did either radio or movies.
The economic pressures caused by the Great Depression
saw men move into jobs traditionally held by professional women.
In 1932, the Farmers' Holiday Association
was essentially a farmers' strike.
The Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930
None of these answers is correct.
During the 1930s, the American Communist Party
None of these answers is correct.
In the late 1920s, the European demand for agricultural and manufacturing goods from the United States was
declining.
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.
During the 1930s, regarding 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.
During the Great Depression in the rural United States,
one-third of all farmers lost their land.
The severity of the Depression increased in 1931 when the Federal Reserve Board
raised interest rates.
President Herbert Hoover responded to the onset of the Great Depression by
urging a program of voluntary cooperation from business leaders.
In 1932, Franklin Roosevelt's promise of a "new deal" for America included a commitment to
None of these answers is correct.
All the following factors contributed to the Great Depression EXCEPT
conservative banking policies that restricted the availability of loans.
During the Great Depression, Asian Americans
had trouble competing for jobs with poor white migrants from the Midwest.
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.
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.
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.
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.
