Question 1

List three factors that contributed to the creation of the Dust Bowl. Explain the human and environmental consequences of the Dust Bowl.

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Three factors that contributed to the cr...

Question 2

Personally leading U.S. Army troops against the encampment of the Bonus Army was Chief of Staff General ________.

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Question 3

In the "Second New Deal,"Roosevelt

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A)   moved right-center politically.
B)   stressed more sweeping reforms to initiate the welfare state.
C)   embraced the concept of women at work.
D)   established full economic recovery.

Question 4

Which of the following did the Supreme Court declare wholly or partly unconstitutional?

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A)   Tennessee Valley Authority and Civilian Conservation Corps
B)   National Recovery Act and Agricultural Adjustment Act
C)   Civil Works Administration and Works Progress Administration
D)   National Labor Relations Act and Social Security

Question 5

The story of the Scottsboro boys illustrates the point that the Depression

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A)   increased the number of homeless, vagrant males.
B)   caused a return of old-fashioned outlaws in the West.
C)   inflamed racial prejudice.
D)   was especially devastating for young children of unemployed fathers. C

Question 6

One result of the "Dust Bowl was that

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A)   California became the most populous state in the union.
B)   several million people on the plains abandoned their farms and moved west.
C)   Mexican Americans and African Americans took advantage of the opportunity to settle abandoned land.
D)   big industrial agricultural cooperatives broke up into smaller units.

Question 7

FDR not only strengthened the office of the presidency, he tried to dominate the other branches of government. He was relatively successful during his first administration in ________, but unsuccessful during his second in ________.

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A)   getting Congress to pass his legislative proposals; reshaping the Supreme Court
B)   appointing sympathetic judges to the lower courts; getting Congress to sustain his vetoes
C)   Supreme Court rulings on the constitutionality of the New Deal; trying to purge Democrats who had begun opposing him
D)   building up the federal bureaucracy; reducing the power of the states

Question 8

Which program was enacted during the Second New Deal?

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A)   an outdoor work program for unemployed young men
B)   an insurance program for the elderly
C)   a program to stabilize and regulate banking
D)   a flood-control project for the Tennessee River

Question 9

The New Deal's first step to achieve recovery dealt with

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A)   unemployment.
B)   public works.
C)   banking.
D)   the trusts.

Question 10

With the election of 1936, your text points out,

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A)   class replaced region as the dominant element in American politics.
B)   race replaced religion as the main predictor of loyalty to the Democrats.
C)   a pattern of fairly close presidential elections was established.
D)   minority voters went to the polls in declining numbers.

Question 11

A natural disaster with origins in human mismanagement, the ________ was created by windstorms that swept the Great Plains.

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The answer of A natural disaster with origins in human...

Question 12

During the Depression, the federal government began to deport

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A)   anarchists.
B)   Japanese.
C)   Mexicans.
D)   Jews.

Question 13

Consider this statement: "Hoover was an American Nero who ineffectually fretted rather than fiddled while the nation rusted rather than burned."Do you agree or disagree? Explain.

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I disagree with the statement that "Hoov...

Question 14

The "Bonus Army"was

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A)   a group of veterans who came to Washington to get bonuses promised them for service in World War I.
B)   a social organization composed of men who had fought in France in 1917.
C)   a group of farmers demanding a bonus to compensate them for their eviction by large landowners.
D)   a group of unemployed scientists and explorers who participated in a federal survey project.

Question 15

What was Herbert Hoover's Great Depression program? On what assumptions was it based?

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Herbert Hoover's Great Depression progra...

Question 16

What effect did the Great Depression have on national morale? On individual morale? On family life?

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The Great Depression had a significant n...

Question 17

The National Recovery Administration and the Agricultural Adjustment Administration shared what strategy to stimulate the economy?

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A)   a bimetallic standard to increase the money supply
B)   government-guaranteed loans to "bail out" banks, big businesses, and large farms that faced probable bankruptcy
C)   a voluntary, private sector-government partnership to limit production and raise prices
D)   minimum wage and maximum price rules to raise consumer purchasing power

Question 18

Under the National Recovery Administration, industry was encouraged to adopt "codes of fair practice"that would

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A)   keep wages set at minimums and hours set at maximums.
B)   free prices from monopolistic constraints.
C)   outlaw child labor and sweatshops.
D)   ban union organization. C

Question 19

How did popular culture-whether in the form of best-selling novels, games, films, or radio programs-reflect and respond to the ravages of the Great Depression?

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Popular culture during the Great Depress...

Question 20

At first, President Hoover tried to stimulate the economy

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A)   indirectly, by encouraging cooperative private initiative.
B)   indirectly, by lowering tariffs.
C)   directly, by promoting deficit spending.
D)   directly, by forcing Europeans to repay American war debts. A

Exam 25: The Great Depression and the New Deal 1929-1939

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FDR not only strengthened the office of the presidency, he tried to dominate the other branches of government. He was relatively successful during his first administration in ________, but unsuccessful during his second in ________.

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Which program was enacted during the Second New Deal?

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With the election of 1936, your text points out,

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A natural disaster with origins in human mismanagement, the ________ was created by windstorms that swept the Great Plains.

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During the Depression, the federal government began to deport

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Consider this statement: "Hoover was an American Nero who ineffectually fretted rather than fiddled while the nation rusted rather than burned."Do you agree or disagree? Explain.

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What was Herbert Hoover's Great Depression program? On what assumptions was it based?

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What effect did the Great Depression have on national morale? On individual morale? On family life?

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The National Recovery Administration and the Agricultural Adjustment Administration shared what strategy to stimulate the economy?

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