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American History: A Survey ch 25 (The Great Depression) review

Pregunta 1 de 20

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What does the term "Bull Market" refer to?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • When the stock market is doing well

  • When the stock market is not doing well

  • When the stock market is average

Explicación

Pregunta 2 de 20

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What is the name of the day that marks the beginning of the Great Depression (October 29, 1929) when the stock market crashed?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Black Tuesday

  • Black Friday

  • Black Wednesday

Explicación

Pregunta 3 de 20

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Which of the following are causes of the Great Depression? Check all that apply.

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Economic prosperity based on only a few industries

  • Unequal distribution of wealth (very few wealthy people, many people living in poverty)

  • Credit (many people in debt, production outweighing demand)

  • High protective tariffs

  • Severe war debt

  • Underspeculation

Explicación

Pregunta 4 de 20

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What was the Dawes Plan?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • A 1924 plan that was designed to help Germany pay off their WWI debt

  • A 1927 plan that was designed to help Russia pay off their WWI debt

  • A 1924 plan that was designed to help the US pay off its WWI debt

Explicación

Pregunta 5 de 20

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What was significant about the bank crisis between 1930 and 1933?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Over 9,000 banks closed, causing the money supply to decrease by 1/3

  • Over 10,000 banks closed, causing the money supply to decrease by 1/2

  • Over 1 million banks closed, causing the money supply to decrease by 2/3

Explicación

Pregunta 6 de 20

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Which area of the country was hit the hardest by the Depression and unemployment?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • The industrial North

  • The rural West

  • The rural South

Explicación

Pregunta 7 de 20

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Charities and relief organization were extremely successful during the Great Depression

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 8 de 20

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What are the reasons that African American are considered the group most badly affected by the Great Depression? Check all that apply.

Selecciona una o más de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • 50% of African Americans in the South were unemployed

  • Huge levels of discrimination and segregation

  • The Scottsboro Case (unjust conviction and indictment of black teenagers)

  • Hundreds of African Americans were murdered in the West

  • 70% of African Americans in the South were unemployed

Explicación

Pregunta 9 de 20

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How were Mexican Americans badly affected by the Depression?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Most who lived in the US were farmers, who were very badly affected by the Depression. Many lost their land and had to return to Mexico

  • Most who lived in the US were industrial workers, and most lost their jobs and had to return to Mexico

  • Most who lived in the US lived in the Pacific Northwest and worked as loggers. Many lost their jobs and had to return to Mexico

Explicación

Pregunta 10 de 20

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What did many white Americans believe about minorities and jobs?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • That they (white Americans) should have the right to a job before any minority

  • That they (minorities) should have the right to a job before whites

  • That only the very skilled (regardless of race) should be entitled to jobs

Explicación

Pregunta 11 de 20

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Why did very few middle class women work during the Depression?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Because there was pressure for women not to work, especially if their husband already had a job

  • This statement is false: most women worked during the Depression

  • Because there was a regression in progressive thinking and women were being pushed back into their spheres

Explicación

Pregunta 12 de 20

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Many minorities benefited from relief efforts

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 13 de 20

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Marriage and birth rates declined severely during the Depression

Selecciona uno de los siguientes:

  • VERDADERO
  • FALSO

Explicación

Pregunta 14 de 20

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Who was Dorothea Lange?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • A photographer during the Great Depression who took pictures of poverty-stricken families

  • A writer during the Great Depression who wrote true accounts of poverty-stricken families

  • An artist during the Great Depression who painted pictures of poverty-stricken families

Explicación

Pregunta 15 de 20

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Why did radios become important during the Depression?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • They were a source of entertainment for those who could afford it

  • They were a source of entertainment, and anyone who requested one could receive one

  • They were not important and did not become important until the 1940s

Explicación

Pregunta 16 de 20

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What was the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • A very high protective tariff that discouraged trade with other countries, which worsened the Depression

  • A very low protective tariff that encouraged trade with other countries, which improved the Depression

  • A very high protective tariff that discourage trade with other countries, which improved the Depression

Explicación

Pregunta 17 de 20

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What were Hoovervilles?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Small shanty towns where unemployed and impoverished families lived

  • Wealthy complexes where those yet unaffected by the Depression escaped to

  • Small shanty towns were only African Americans lived

Explicación

Pregunta 18 de 20

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What was the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • It was meant to provide loans to banks, railroads, and businesses in order to jumpstart the economy. It was a failure.

  • It was meant to limit loans from banks, railroads, and businesses in order to jumpstart the economy. It was a failure.

  • It was meant to provide loans to banks, railroads, and businesses in order to jumpstart the economy. It was a success.

Explicación

Pregunta 19 de 20

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What was the Bonus Expeditionary Force?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • A group of WWI veterans demanded that their guaranteed government bonus be paid to them immediately. Hundreds went to Washington DC and set up Hoovervilles and refused to leave until the bonus was paid

  • A group of WWI veterans demanded that their guaranteed government bonus be paid to them immediately. Hundreds went to Washington DC, snuck into the White House, and poisoned President Hoover

  • A group of WWI veterans demanded that their government guaranteed bonus be paid to them immediately. A few went to Washington DC and negotiated with the president, who denied them

Explicación

Pregunta 20 de 20

1

Who won the election of 1932?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Herbert Hoover (R) was reelected

  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D)

  • Woodrow Wilson (D)

Explicación

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