Chapter 23: The Great Depression
What happened as the unemployed began looking for help to feed their families?
Public relief collapsed in many places.
What happened in February 1933?
The banking crisis suddenly accelerated.
The Depression ______ America's traditional "success ethic."
did not destroy
As a result of the world financial crisis, many new governments came to power that were committed to
expansion.
During the Great Depression, the American Communist Party (CPUSA),
gained credibility as capitalism's flaws were exposed.
Prior to entering the White House, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was
governor of New York.
As the Depression took hold, African Americans
in service jobs were displaced by unemployed whites.
Protest movements sparked by the Depression first appeared
in the middle of 1932.
In the 1930s, Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People
reassured people that their individual initiative could restore their prosperity.
In the mid-1930s, the American Communist Party ______ Franklin Roosevelt.
reduced its criticism of
In the period between Roosevelt's election and his inauguration, he
refused Hoover's demands.
During the Great Depression, American social values
seemed to change very little.
The Depression ______ the traditional belief that a woman's proper place was in the home.
strengthened
The American Communist Party ______ the Popular Front.
was strongly tied to
Which of the following are true of the American stock market before it collapsed in 1929?
-Stock prices had been steadily ascending for a year and a half. -The number of shares traded daily soared.
Which of the following correctly describe the status of people of Mexican descent as the Depression worsened?
-They were routinely denied relief benefits. -They were often forced to leave the country.
One of the most popular creations of the 1930s, Gone With the Wind, can best be described as which of the following?
-a romantic epic -a saga set in an earlier era
In response to the Depression, Hoover urged which of the following?
-businesses to maintain production -labor leaders to forego some demands
True or false: In the major industrial cities of the North and Midwest, unemployment, while severe, never exceeded 50 percent.
False (Reason: Toledo, Ohio, had an unemployment rate of 80 percent in 1932; the rate exceeded 50 percent in other cities as well.)
Founded in 1936, ______ quickly won more readers than any other publication in the United States (with the exception of Reader's Digest).
Life
Which of the following is true of popular protest in the first few years of the Depression?
Most Americans were too stunned or too confused to effectively protest.
True or false: Rising nationalism and the elevation of many powerful, belligerent governments across the world was the beginning of a process that ultimately led to war.
True (Reason: By 1931, spurred by the financial crisis, Herbert Hoover confronted the beginning of a process that ultimately led to war.)
The term "New Deal" originated in
a speech Roosevelt made at the start of the 1932 campaign.
The Popular Front was a broad coalition of ______ groups.
antifascist.
At the end of the Depression, ______ women were working than had been doing so at the beginning.
more
African Americans who left the rural South in the 1930s settled primarily in
the urban North.
The stock market boom of 1928 and the first half of 1929 was characterized by
the use of credit to buy stock.
What did the Farmers' Holiday Association advocate?
the withholding of crops from the market
President Herbert Hoover responded to the onset of the Great Depression by
urging voluntary cooperation from business leaders.
Because of discrimination and harsh economic conditions, Mexican Americans
were forced from some jobs, left the country, or sometimes tried to fight back (such as by forming unions).
