History Test Flashcards

1
Q

The program that involves governmental projects that paid Americans to do work was called the __________.

A

New Deal

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2
Q

Franklin D Roosevelt to have a disease called __________ which attacks the nervous system.

A

polio

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3
Q

Roosevelt gave many radio talks called the __________ during his three terms as president.

A

Fireside Chats

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4
Q

The national Labour relations Board allowed workers to form __________ to bargain with company owners for better wages and working conditions.

A

labor unions

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5
Q

FDR’s new programs were known as the __________ because they were called by the first letters of their names.

A

alphabet agencies

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6
Q

The fee charged by a lender is called __________.

A

Lender

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7
Q

America was not the only country to supper from the depression. Countries in __________ also suffered.

A

Europe

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8
Q

Hitler and__________ were dictators.

A

Mussolini

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9
Q

Germany and Italy formed the __________ powers.

A

Axis

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10
Q

Why didn’t everyone get money from the bank.

A

The bank had invested the People’s Money in stocks.

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11
Q

why did the lenders of the treasury department declare a bank holiday?

A

it was so they could close the banks because the banks did not have money.

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12
Q

The years following the stark market crash were called__________.

A

The Great Depression

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13
Q

The dust bowl was located in the __________ United States

A

Central

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14
Q

What caused the dustbowl?

A

When the drought came the crops could not put down the dry plowed soil so the wind whipped the topsoil.

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15
Q

he promised to put an end to prohibition?

A

Franklin D Roosevelt

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16
Q

he took most of the blame for the Great Depression.

A

Herbert Hoover

17
Q

The chief business of the American people is business

A

Calvin Coolidge

18
Q

he signed into law a very high tax on imported goods.

A

Herbert Hoover

19
Q

The only thing we have to fear is fear it so.

A

Franklin D Roosevelt’s

20
Q

he was in office when the stock market crashed.

A

Calvin Coolidge

21
Q

What does bear market mean?

A

failing stock prices

22
Q

what does invest mean?

A

to use money to make a profit

23
Q

What does with draw mean?

A

remove money from a bank account

24
Q

what does dividend mean?

A

profit receive from stock market investments

25
Q

What does bull market mean?

A

A market with rising stock prices

26
Q

what does Deposit mean?

A

placed money in a bank

27
Q

what does stock market mean?

A

where people buy and sell stock

28
Q

A person can purchase items on __________and pay his bill in small __________.

A

Credit ,installments

29
Q

people can buy __________and sell at a __________ exchange

A

stock, stock

30
Q

A person can become a partial owner of a company by buying __________of that companies __________.

A

Shares, stock

31
Q

In the 1920s buying stock in American companies seen an easy way to make __________and was considered __________.

A

Money, patriotic

32
Q

When the stock market crashed on Tuesday __________ 1929 stock prices lost more than __________ their value.

A

October 29, half

33
Q

The stock market crash showed people that they cannot keep __________ and __________ money as they had been.

A

Borrowing, selling

34
Q

October 24, 1929, is known as __________the day when people panic and sold her stock before it became__________.

A

Black Thursday, worthless

35
Q

Where could people without jobs get free food?

A

Soup Kitchen

36
Q

What was Franklin Delano Roosevelt often known as?

A

FDR

37
Q

Roosevelt died eighty three days before his _________.

A

Inauguration

38
Q

The CCC planned and built many of America’s _________ parks.

A

National