Chapter 18 & 19

Question 1

William Waters

Answer 1

leader of the bonus army

Question 2

Douglas MacArthur

Answer 2

Chief staff of the US army

Question 3

Harry Hopkins

Answer 3

social worker who doesn’t believe in welfare but believes in giving them a job

Question 4

John Maynard Keynes

Answer 4

English Columnist who said to cure depression is massive government spending

Question 5

Henry Morgenthau

Answer 5

secretary of treasury

Question 6

Frances Perkins

Answer 6

secretary of labor first women to serve in presidents cabin

Question 7

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

Answer 7

chief political advisor in FDR cabinet

Question 8

Charles Coughlin

Answer 8

a priest who had a sunday radio show that was heard all over the nation and he claimed FDR was getting too close to wealthy bankers “Jews”

Question 9

Francis Townsend

Answer 9

retired dentist who said elders 60+ should be given 200 a month

Question 10

Huey Long

Answer 10

Governor who became senate of Louisiana and started “Share Our Wealth” stated each family have 5,000 income a year

Question 11

Robert F. Wagner

Answer 11

Senator from NY who sponsored the National Labor Relations Act

Question 12

Dorothea Lange

Answer 12

Photographer who set across the country to document the Great Depression

Question 13

John Steinbeck

Answer 13

Author of the Grapes of Wrath

Question 14

John Collier

Answer 14

Head of BIA

Question 15

Marian Anderson

Answer 15

Black opera singer who was scheduled to sing at a white womens theatre and when her show got cancelled she preformed a free concert at Lincoln Memorial

Question 16

installment plan

Answer 16

Pay a down payment and then a little each week/ etc.

Question 17

margin buying

Answer 17

Buying stalks on credit

Question 18

economic indicators

Answer 18

economic statistics that hint something bad is coming

Question 19

Black Tuesday*

Answer 19

the day the stock market crashed

Question 20

breadlines

Answer 20

“soup kitchen” of their time

Question 21

Hoovervilles

Answer 21

Homeless communities during the great depression referred to by cynical inhabitants

Question 22

Bonus army

Answer 22

WW1 veterans that marched in formation to the White House because they wanted their money

Question 23

Sit-down strike

Answer 23

went to work but did nothing

Question 24

Bank Holiday

Answer 24

all banks closed until further notice

Question 25

Hundred Days

Answer 25

the first three months of FDR’s administration where congress passed a lot of important pieces of legislative

Question 26

fireside chats

Answer 26

FDR’s radio broadcasts that caused families to sit together and listen

Question 27

deficit spending

Answer 27

spending a massive amount of money with no regard to balancing the budget

Question 28

Dust Bowl*

Answer 28

when the great plains received no rain causing the soil to dry and create dust

Question 29

reciprocal trade agreements

Answer 29

congress granted roosevelt authority to negotiate trade with individual countries

Question 30

Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act*

Answer 30

prohibits certain ingredients in food, makeup, and medicine

Question 31

Causes of the Great Depression (4)

Answer 31

1. Too much credit
2. Over production
3. Over speculation on stock
4. High tariffs

Question 32

Economic statistics that indicated problems were coming for the American economy (4)

Answer 32

1. Housing starts go down
2. Factory Orders go down
3. Inventories go up
4. Prices go down

Question 33

Problems faced by women during the Great Depression (4); problems faced by children (2)

Answer 33

1. abandoned by their husbands
2. females first fired and last hired
3. pur pressure on employers not to hire women
4. some states prohibit hiring married women
5. quit school to get a job and never were able to go back and complete their education
6. malnutrition

Question 34

Minorities hit harder by the Depression? Eligible for government assistance?

Answer 34

yes and yes

Question 35

Reaction of farmers to the drop in prices during the Depression

Answer 35

they destroyed the crops they had already

Question 36

Reasons why many workers with jobs were unhappy; result of their unhappiness

Answer 36

workers are asked dot work longer hours for less pay which results in violence and starts strike

Question 37

Actions taken by Herbert Hoover in attempting to deal with the Great Depression (3)

Answer 37

1. Low cost loans to home owners and farmers
2. Give money to governments and big businesses
3. Creating jobs, building bridges and dams

Question 38

Activities used by Americans as temporary escapes from their troubles during the Depression (6)

Answer 38

1. Movies
2. Radio
3. Baseball
4. Reading
5. Boardgames like monopoly
6. Music

Question 39

Provisions of the Emergency Banking Act (2)

Answer 39

1. Treasure department to audit every bank in the US

2. Forbids private ownership of Gold

Question 40

Benefits provided by the Social Security Act (4)

Answer 40

1. Retirement pensions
2. disability insurance
3. unemployment insurance
4. death benefit

Question 41

Provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (3)

Answer 41

1. Minimum standard wage
2. maxi hours
3. prohibits factory workers by children until their 16

Question 42

Provisions of the National Labor Relations Board (4)

Answer 42

1. Right to join union of choice
2. Employers must bargain in “good faith”
3. NLRB to superise the union elections to investigate violations of the law

Question 43

Purpose of the Revenue Acts of 1935 and 1938

Answer 43

distribution of wealth from rich to poor

Question 44

Provisions of the Indian Reorganization Act (3)

Answer 44

1. Tribe self government (theoretically)
2. SOME land from the indians will be returned to the tribes
3. promises fundind for economic development projects

Question 45

Serious political mistake made by FDR

Answer 45

redoing the membership of the supreme court by appointing someone else in political favorable to a judge that is 70 or older

Question 46

EC Migrant mother

Answer 46

Florence Owens