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Question 1

What law increased the tariffs on imported goods?

Answer 1

Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act

Question 2

Clusters of shacks built by homeless people were called

Answer 2

Hoovervilles

Question 3

Built or improved roads, schools, and hospitals

Answer 3

WPA

Question 4

What law repealed prohibition?

Answer 4

The Twenty-first Amendment

Question 5

Raised wages, set production limits, and established prices

Answer 5

NRA

Question 6

The area in Oklahoma where wind stripped off the topsoil and buried buildings and livestock

Answer 6

The Dust Bowl

Question 7

helped the unemployed, elderly, and disabled persons

Answer 7

SSA

Question 8

The day the stock market fell was called

Answer 8

Black Thursday

Question 9

What did the most to end the Great Depression?

Answer 9

The buildup toward another war

Question 10

Improved rural areas with electricity and phone lines

Answer 10

REA

Question 11

Blacks gained more rights under what plan?

Answer 11

The New Deal

Question 12

worked with farmers to raise the price of produce

Answer 12

AAA

Question 13

Insured bank deposits

Answer 13

FDIC

Question 14

Oklahoma farmers who moved west to escape their ravaged state were called what?

Answer 14

Okies

Question 15

Gave young men work in environmental projects

Answer 15

CCC

Question 16

What law lessened the time between a President’s election and inauguration?

Answer 16

Twentieth Amendment

Question 17

What law set money aside to be used for public works?

Answer 17

Emergency Relief and Reconstruction Act

Question 18

Three points included in Roosevelt’s New Deal

Answer 18

to give relief to poor; to help the economy recover; to reform bad business practices

Question 19

What about Roosevelt inspired Americans?

Answer 19

His confidence in spite of physical problems

Question 20

What were the causes of the Great Depression?

Answer 20

Overproduction forced factories to dismiss employees; stock market crashed; common people became poorer as businessmen became richer; people borrowed too much money

Question 21

All banks closed while the government examined their financial condition, was called

Answer 21

Banking Holiday