AP US Depression Quiz

In addition to putting young men back to work, a principal purpose of the Civilian Conservation corps was to:
1. limit population growth.
2. promote reforestation and land conservation.
3. help young married couples bUy homes on easy mortgage terms.
4. instill military discipline and patriotism in the younger generation.
The Federal Housing Administration was designed not only to provide mortgage relief, but also to stimulate the:
1. banking industry.
2. legal profession.
3. insurance industry.
4. construction industry.
The programs of Dr. Francis E. Townsend, Father Charles Coughlin, and Senator Huey P. Long were significant of:
1. strong conservative opposition to the New Deal.
2. a movement to promote civil rights for blacks and other minorities.
3. widespread popular support for the cautious and practical spirit of the New Deal.
4. a desire among some elements of the population to adopt more radical solutions to the nation's economic ills.
Frances Perkins was significant to New Deal history as:
1. the head of the Black Cabinet
2. the secretary of labor and the first woman ever appointed to the cabinet.
3. a leading anthropologist who argued for what came to be known as •cultural relativism.
4. a member of the Farm security Administration who traveled widely through rural America recording the nature of agricultural life.
The congress of Industrial Organizations was organized on the principle that all workers in a particular industry should be included in one union. This principle is referred to as:
1. union shop.
2. closed shop
3. craft unionism.
4. industrial unionism.
The 1935 Social security Act provided for three of the following. Which is the exception?
1. retirement benefits
2. unemployment benefits
3. health-insurance benefits
4. benefits to dependent children
In combating the vast problem of unemployment during the Depression, federally funded work projects under WPA were extended to include:
1. artists.
2. musicians.
3. writers.
4. all of the above.
In the election of 1936, the Republican platform emphasized:
1. returning to the conservative policies of Hoover.
2. adopting economic measures more radical than the New Deal.
3. continuing the New Deal, but doing it constitutionally and without budget deficits.
4. foreign policy, especially the rise of fascism, and ignored the domestic economic situation entirely.
The ultimate outcome of Roosevelt's plan to pack the supreme Court was that:
1. judges were forced to retire at age sixty-five.
2. the Court retaliated by striking down even more New Deal legislation.
3. although the plan was defeated, the Court became more favorable to New Deal legislation.
4. the president was empowered under certain conditions to appoint up to six additional justices.
The purpose of the Agricultural Marketing Act, proposed by Hoover even before the Great Crash of 1929, was to:
1. impose government regulation on the commodities exchange market
2. promote reciprocal-trade agreements with foreign countries for agricultural products
3. keep farm prices up
4. establish quotas for the importation of foreign agricultural products
After the effects of the Depression spread to Europe, in an attempt to restore international economic stability,
Hoover proposed:
1. a moratorium on war debts, reparations, and private international debts
2. that the united states, by means of massive loans, help the European countries to maintain the gold standard
3. that the united states follow Europe's lead in going off the gold standard
4. cancellation of war debts owed to the United States
In the several months preceding the Great crash of 1929, three of the following economic indicators decreased dramatically. Which one increased?
1. wholesale prices
2. automobile sales
3. business inventories
4. freight-car loadings
One of the most important causes of the Great Depression was the fact that during the 1920s:
1. there was a fundamental maldistribution of purchasing
  power
2. government regulation and trust busting had stifled
  free enterprise
3. low tariff policies had benefited foreign competitors
  and seriously damaged domestic industry
4. not enough profits were plowed back into business as
  new capital investment
In the 1920s, European nations were able to repay their war debts to the united states, and Germany and Austria were able to continue reparation payments by:
1. inflating their currencies
2. draining their gold reserves
3. expanding exports to the United States
4. getting new loans from the United States
the depth of the Depression in 1932, the unemploymenl rate in the united states was estimated to have been:
1. 5%
2. 25%
3. 75%
4. 90%
In the early 1930S, the term 'Okies' referred to:
1. oil speculators in Oklahoma
2. dispossessed farmers fleeing the Dust Bowl
3. moonshiners
4. swamp dwellers in Okefenokee
Three of the following statements accurately describe the condition of blacks during the Great Depression. Which
the exception?
1. Blacks suffered a higher unemployment rate than whites
2. Discrimination against blacks increased, particularly
  in competition for jobs
3. The migration of blacks to the North ended abruptly
4. Local government and private relief benefits for blacks
  were smaller than for whites
The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 was significant in that it:
1. reversed the government's previous policy of encouraging assimilation
2. deprived the tribes of their last vestiges of self-governing institutions
3. encouraged Indians to become assimilated into the mainstream of American culture
4. allowed Indians to own land as individuals rather than collectively as a tribe
Hoover reacted to the veterans' Bonus March by:
1. ignoring the veterans completely
2. agreeing to support veterans' demands for a bonus
3. ordering the police and army to clear out the protesters
4. creating the veterans Administration to investigate their demands
One effect of the Great Depression on women was to:
1. drive most women out of the labor force by the time the economic crisis was over
2. strengthen the belief that a woman's place was in the home
3. open up new opportunities for women in the professions
4. gain increased public support for such feminist organizations as the National Woman's party