Ch. 23 The Great Depression

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During the Great Depression, in the rural US

1/3 of all farmers lost their land

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

80%

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

Anthony Adverseby Hervy Allen

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

California

During the1930's, the most important group within the Popular Front was the

Communist Party

In the 1930's, all of following films offered social commentary on the US and the Great Depression Except

It Happened One Night

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

None of these answers are correct

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

Will Hays

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

a populist admiration for ordinary Americans

During the 1930's the radical left in the US

all of these answers is correct (found broad acceptance among both the working class and intellectuals, experienced intense government hostility, saw a widening of the ideological range of mainstream art and politics,

The federal governments response to the Bonus Army included

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

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)

all of these is correct (was to provide federal loans to troubled banks and businesses, was created in the last year of Hoovers administration, included a $1.5 billion public works budget)

In 1931 Scottsboro court case saw

black teenager accused of rape by two white women

All of the following factors were causes of the great depression Except

conservative banking polices that restricted the availability of loans

As Herbert Hoover began his presidency, he

considered the country to have bright economic future

In the late 1920's, the European demand for agriculture and manufacturing goods from the US was

declining

As the depression deepened, President Herbert Hoover

grew less willing to increase federal spending

During the Great Depression, Asian Americans

had trouble competing got jobs with poor white migrants from the Midwest

In response to the Great Depression, many Mexican Americans

left the US entirely

In 1932, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

lent funds only to financial institutions with sufficient collateral

During the 1930's, regarding radio

listening was often a community experience

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

lost a significant portion of its membership

On Oct. 29, 1929, the American stock market

lost all the gains of the previous year

The Hawley Smoot Tariff on 1930

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 is correct (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)

During the 1930's, American literature

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

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 US

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

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

refused to make any deals with the outgoing president, Herbert Hoover

After Democrats won control of the 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 to jobs traditionally held by 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 US

seemed to change relatively little

During the 1930's, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union

sought to organize the rural poor across racial lines

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

taught that individual initiative could help people to restore themselves financially

The Hoover administration addressed the economic situation of American farmers with

the Agriculture Marketing Act

The "Abraham Lincoln Brigade" is associated with

the Spanish Civil War

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

the army demanded Congress create relief programs for WWI veterans

During the Great Depression

the divorce rate declined

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

urging voluntary cooperation from business leaders

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

vice president of the US

Franklin Roosevelt's victory over Herbert Hoover in 1932

was a convincing mandate

In the 1930's, the Dust Bowl,

was a product of changing environmental conditions

In 1932, the Farmers Holiday Association

was essentially a farmers strike


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