Ch 23 Test

Question 1

What was the u employment rate in 1933?

Answer 1

25%

Question 2

Even people who had jobs sometimes faces what problems in regards to work?

Answer 2

They had reduced hours and lowered wages

Question 3

What were makeshift towns for the homeless called?

Answer 3

Hoovervilles

Question 4

What did Hoover want to do in respond to the Great Depression?

Answer 4

He wanted local governments charities and businesses to voluntarily help out

Question 5

What was the reconstruction finance corporation? What did it do?

Answer 5

RFC funded critical business like banks and insurance companies and gave money to local governments for public works projects

Question 6

What was the bonus army? Why did they go to Washington? What happened there?

Answer 6

WWI veterans who had been promised a bonus for fighting in the war. They went to Washington to ask for the bonus early. They were told no. Some were forcefully removed

Question 7

What was the purpose of the emergency banking relief act?

Answer 7

It provided more careful government regulation of banks

Question 8

What was FDR’s brain trust?

Answer 8

A group of advisors many of whom had been college professors

Question 9

What were the three goals of the new deal?

Answer 9

Relief for the jobless
Economic recovery
Reforms to prevent future depressions

Question 10

FERA

Answer 10

Federal emergency relief administration- refunds to states so they would reopen relief agencies

Question 11

CCC

Answer 11

Civilian conservation corps- work in national parks and forests
Conservation and jobs for people

Question 12

WPA

Answer 12

Works progress administration- public works

Jobs for people

Question 13

NRA

Answer 13

National recovery administration
Kept prices stable
Minimum wage
No child labor

Question 14

PWA

Answer 14

Public works administration
Improved the infrastructure of America
Have jobs

Question 15

TVA

Answer 15

Tennessee valley authority
Built dams and provided hydroelectric power to rural areas
Gave jobs

Question 16

FDIC

Answer 16

Federal deposit insurance corporation

Protected deposits into banks

Question 17

What were some criticisms from conservations on the new deal?

Answer 17

It went too far in regulating business and restricting individual freedoms

Question 18

What were some criticisms from liberals on the new deal?

Answer 18

It didn’t do enough to help the poor

Question 19

What did women do to help make it though the Great Depression?

Answer 19

Found work outside the home
Canned fruits and vegetables
Baked their own bread
Sewed their own clothes

Question 20

What told did Eleanor Roosevelt have?

Answer 20

“Eyes and ears” for FDR

met with people to see what could be done

Question 21

What did many southern African Americans do during the Great Depression?

Answer 21

Moved north to try to get jobs

Question 22

Who was Mary McLeod Bethune?

Answer 22

An educator who served on the black cabinet to help the African Americans of the U.S.

Question 23

What was the black cabinet?

Answer 23

A group of African Americans who were appointed to help FDR address issues related to African Americans

Question 24

Who was Marian Anderson and why did she become a civil rights symbol?

Answer 24

A singer who was refused a singing gig at an event

Question 25

What happened to many Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants during the Great Depression?

Answer 25

Many were deported

Question 26

What was the Indian new deal? Who helped put it in place?

Answer 26

Funding to build schools hospitals and irrigation systems on native reservations
Also our reservations under Native American control
John collier executed this new deal policy

Question 27

What was the dust bowl?

Answer 27

Severe drought in the middle of the country
Causing dust storms
Crop failure

Question 28

What were black blizzards?

How did they affect people and animals?

Answer 28

Dust storms that swept the topsoil away
They buried fences
Seeped into houses
Killed people and animals when it got into their lungs

Question 29

What are Okies? Where did they come from and where were they going?

Answer 29

A derogatory term for people migrating from the dust bowl area
Some from Oklahoma

Question 30

Why was John Steinbeck famous?

Answer 30

Wrote the grapes of wrath

Question 31

What did Dorothea Lange do?

Answer 31

Took pictures of migrant workers

Question 32

What were popular movies of the Great Depression?

Answer 32

The grapes of wrath

King Kong

Question 33

What are fireside chats?

Answer 33

Radio speeches given by FDR to help people understand what programs were being rolled out
Helped people have some hope in improvement in the economy

Question 34

What was the social security act?

Who did it help?

Answer 34

Funded through a payroll 
The SSA helped older people
Kids
Disabled
And 
Unemployed

Question 35

What was the Wagner act?

Answer 35

Guaranteed workers rights to organize into unions and prohibited unfair business practices
It also upheld the right for collective bargaining

Question 36

What were some arguments against the new dealV

Answer 36

It gave too much power to the federal government
It threatened individual freedoms and free enterprise
Making too much debt

Question 37

What were arguments for the new deal?

Answer 37

It eased many problems 
Employed millions
Ended the banking crisis
Reformed the stock market
Improved working conditions

Question 38

When did the Great Depression end?

Answer 38

1941

When the U.S. Began producing goods for the war

Question 39

What were the causes of the Great Depression?

Answer 39

Overproduction decline in housing and car purchases a banking crisis unemployment business going into bankruptcy the stock market was unstable