Practice Test: The Great Depression

Matching skip

Short Answer skip

1. Bonus Army
   
2. Bank Holiday
   
3. 3 R’s
   
4. Emergency Banking Act
   
5. Tennessee Valley Authority
   

Multiple Choice skip

1. Civilian Conservation Corps
   1. it was intended for both industrial recovery and for unemployment relief. Headed by Harold L. Ickes, the agency spent over $4 billion on thousands of projects, including public buildings and highways. This was significant because it was an effort to help the unemployed and recover industries during the Great Depression
   2. Blankets made by newspapers, villages set up, no one had homes, everyone was struck by poverty
   3. Provided employment in fresh-air government camps for about 3 million uniformed young men, who would have otherwise been driven into crime, included reforestation, fire fighting, flood control, and swamp drainage, they helped their parents by sending home a lot of their pay GOVERNMENT IS INTERVENING – FDR WAS ABOUT
   4. Insured individual deposits up to $5,000 (later raised), it ended the epidemic of bank failures – confidence in the banking system
2. The New Deal
   1. Section of FERA, gave money to farmers to meet their mortgages, reduced production to make the production worth more (supply and demand)
   2. Roosevelt steps to help the depression
   3. Blankets made by newspapers, villages set up, no one had homes, everyone was struck by poverty
   4. Insured individual deposits up to $5,000 (later raised), it ended the epidemic of bank failures – confidence in the banking system
   5. Money lent to farm organizations to buy, sell, and store agricultural surpluses (farmers weren’t getting that much money in the 1920s)
3. Public Works Administration
   1. Section of FERA, refinanced mortgages on nonfarm homes, assisted a million badly pinched homes, bailed out mortgage- holding banks, and got more people loyal to the Democratic party
   2. Expelled the veterans, sent them home, very violent, showed how desperate people were during that time, and it showed how nervous/chaotic the government was – made everyone hate Hoover
   3. a drought that struck the states of the trans-Mississippi Great Plains. The Dust Bowl was partially caused by the cultivation of countless acres, dry-farming techniques, and mechanization. This is significant because it shows how bad and poor the Great Depression was, that factors of it led to a drought
   4. it was intended for both industrial recovery and for unemployment relief. Headed by Harold L. Ickes, the agency spent over $4 billion on thousands of projects, including public buildings and highways. This was significant because it was an effort to help the unemployed and recover industries during the Great Depression
   5. It was made in order to protect the public against fraud. It required equiring promoters to transmit to the investor sworn information regarding the soundness of their stocks and bonds. Sig because it protected the public against fraud, deception, and manipulation
4. Dust Bowl
   1. it was designed to assist industry, labor, and the unemployed. This administration tried to help because there were individual industries, through "fair competition" codes. There were lower work hours so more people could be hired, therefore more jobs available. Minimum wage was established. Workers were formally guaranteed the right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their choosing, not through the company's choosing
   2. Provided employment in fresh-air government camps for about 3 million uniformed young men, who would have otherwise been driven into crime, included reforestation, fire fighting, flood control, and swamp drainage, they helped their parents by sending home a lot of their pay GOVERNMENT IS INTERVENING – FDR WAS ABOUT
   3. a drought that struck the states of the trans-Mississippi Great Plains. The Dust Bowl was partially caused by the cultivation of countless acres, dry-farming techniques, and mechanization. This is significant because it shows how bad and poor the Great Depression was, that factors of it led to a drought
   4. Money lent to farm organizations to buy, sell, and store agricultural surpluses (farmers weren’t getting that much money in the 1920s)
   5. People from Oklahoma and Arkansas that fell victims to the Dust Bowl. They moved to Cali in trailers. Sig- showed how severely people were affected by this
5. Federal Securities Act
   1. Roosevelt opening up the banks again
   2. It was made in order to protect the public against fraud. It required equiring promoters to transmit to the investor sworn information regarding the soundness of their stocks and bonds. Sig because it protected the public against fraud, deception, and manipulation
   3. Insured individual deposits up to $5,000 (later raised), it ended the epidemic of bank failures – confidence in the banking system
   4. Money lent to farm organizations to buy, sell, and store agricultural surpluses (farmers weren’t getting that much money in the 1920s)
   5. Section of FERA, refinanced mortgages on nonfarm homes, assisted a million badly pinched homes, bailed out mortgage- holding banks, and got more people loyal to the Democratic party

True or False skip

1. Harry Hopkins
   Invested the president with power to regulate banking transactions and foreign exchange and to reopen solvent banks, banks were crying out for immediate attention

   True   False

2. Home Owner Loan Corporation
   Section of FERA, refinanced mortgages on nonfarm homes, assisted a million badly pinched homes, bailed out mortgage- holding banks, and got more people loyal to the Democratic party

   True   False

3. Okies
   People from Oklahoma and Arkansas that fell victims to the Dust Bowl. They moved to Cali in trailers. Sig- showed how severely people were affected by this

   True   False

4. Civil Works Administration
   Blankets made by newspapers, villages set up, no one had homes, everyone was struck by poverty

   True   False