Matching
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Directions: Match the definitions with the terms. Write the correct
letter in each blank. You will not use all of the terms. a. | Great Depression | j. | business
cycle | b. | localism | k. | repatriation | c. | tenant farmers | l. | Douglas MacArthur | d. | bread
line | m. | Hoover
Dam | e. | Herbert Hoover | n. | Okies | f. | trickle-down economics | o. | Hawley-Smoot Tariff | g. | Bonus
Army | p. | speculation | h. | Black Tuesday | q. | Dust Bowl | i. | RFC |
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World War I veterans who marched to demand payment of money promised by
Congress
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Dust Bowl refugees who moved westward to find work
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risky stock purchases made by investors with the hope of high returns
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President when the stock market crashed
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government efforts to encourage or pressure Mexican immigrants to return to
Mexico
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General who dispersed protestors in the capital by ordering federal troops to
fire on them with tear gas
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the periodic expansion and contraction of the economy
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agricultural workers who work on land owned by someone else
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the theory that money invested in banks and businesses will work its way
through the system to laborers
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the occasion of the stock market crash
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Directions: Match the definitions with the letter of the correct term
or person. You will not use all the terms and people. a. | business cycle | d. | Hawley-Smoot
Tariff | b. | Herbert Hoover | e. | speculation | c. | Black Tuesday | f. | Great
Depression |
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a time of economic downturn and high unemployment between 1929 and 1941
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the periodic expansion and contraction of the economy
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United States President from 1929 to 1933
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a risky stock purchase intended to turn quick profits
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a tax passed in 1930 on foreign products brought into the United States
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Directions: Match the definitions with the letter of the
correct term or person. You will not use all the terms and people.
a. | bread lines | d. | Okies | b. | Dust Bowl | e. | tenant farmers | c. | Hoovervilles | f. | repatriation |
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Dust Bowl refugees from the Great Plains, called _____, headed west to
look for work.
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During the Great Depression, many homeless people grouped together to build
_____, or makeshift shantytowns of tents and shacks.
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_____ lived on and worked land owned by someone else.
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Local, state, and federal governments tried to coerce Mexican immigrants to
return to Mexico through _____.
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Impoverished people in the cities often waited in _____ to obtain free
food from charities and public agencies.
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Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Which group experienced an early depression in the 1920s?
a. | farmers | c. | industrial workers | b. | bank owners | d. | stock market
investors |
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During the 1920s, the United States economy moved through which phase of the
business cycle?
a. | expansion | c. | contraction | b. | regression | d. | deflation |
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In 1929, the stock market crashed because
a. | the Federal Reserve increased the money supply. | b. | Germany ceased
reparations payments to the United States. | c. | investors lost confidence in the market and
rushed to sell their shares. | d. | depositors lost their investments and tried to
withdraw all of the savings from banks. |
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Which factor contributed to the spread of the Great Depression overseas?
a. | Europe increased trade to the United States. | b. | Congress lowered
tariffs on foreign imports. | c. | American industry reduced production
levels. | d. | The United States raised tariffs & cut back investment in
Europe. |
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Both African Americans and Mexican Americans had an especially difficult time
during the Great Depression because they
a. | had little community and family support upon which to rely. | b. | were forced to
migrate from the South to find work in northern cities. | c. | had to fight
repatriation efforts by local, state, and federal government officials. | d. | faced discrimination
when competing with white Americans for a limited number of jobs. |
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Why did volunteerism fail?
a. | Banks made too many loans to struggling businesses. | b. | Businesses and
citizens acted in their individual best interests. | c. | President Hoover supported more federal
government intervention. | d. | Charitable organizations took control of local
and state relief efforts. |
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Congress instituted the RFC to loan money to
a. | European nations so that they could pay off their war debts. | b. | investors so that
they could engage in more stock speculation. | c. | depositors so that they could withdraw their
savings from banks. | d. | banks so that they could lend money to
businesses to stimulate economic activity. |
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Why did the Bonus Army march on Washington, D.C.?
a. | The Federal Reserve refused to pay veterans their bonuses. | b. | General MacArthur
attacked protestors demanding their bonuses. | c. | President Hoover vetoed a bill providing for
early payment of bonuses. | d. | Congress passed a bill promising to pay
veterans their bonuses early. |
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Which of these factors helped hide economic problems in the 1920s?
a. | Investors lost confidence in the market. | b. | Farmers sold crop
surpluses to pay off their debts. | c. | Americans purchased many consumer goods on
credit. | d. | Wages increased at the same pace as worker
productivity. |
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What event occurred on Black Tuesday?
a. | Unemployment reached nearly 25 percent. | b. | The Federal Reserve
lowered interest rates. | c. | Investors sold more than 16 million shares
of stock. | d. | Germany stopped reparation payments to the United
States. |
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Why did so many banks collapse at the beginning of the Great Depression?
a. | Too many investors tried to open new accounts. | b. | Too many depositors
tried to withdraw their money all at once. | c. | The stock market collapsed too slowly to
collect on debts. | d. | The Federal Reserve put too much money into
circulation. |
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European countries reacted to the Hawley-Smoot Tariff by
a. | increasing global trade. | c. | importing more American
goods. | b. | passing high protective tariffs. | d. | lowering prices on European
goods. |
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What economic condition did economist John Maynard Keynes believe caused the
Great Depression?
a. | lack of government intervention | b. | strict controls on stock
speculation | c. | too much oversight of the banking system | d. | limits on production
and consumer spending |
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At the beginning of the Great Depression, urban unemployment
a. | decreased slightly. | c. | increased slightly. | b. | stayed about the same. | d. | increased
dramatically. |
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Members of the Taxpayers Protection League resisted evictions by
a. | building Hoovervilles. | c. | moving to cheaper lodgings. | b. | staging nonviolent
protests. | d. | pooling resources
to pay their rent. |
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Which of these factors contributed to the plight of rural farmers?
a. | a long rainy season | b. | decreased debt burden | c. | falling prices for
crops and livestock | d. | increased demand for agricultural
products |
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Farmers contributed to the problems that led to the Dust Bowl by
a. | putting down new layers of topsoil. | b. | moving off of the plains to find new
farmland. | c. | damming western rivers and using irrigation techniques. | d. | using intensive
farming practices that removed protective grasses. |
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The unemployment rate among African Americans was
a. | nearly double the national rate. | b. | slightly higher than the national
rate. | c. | about the same as the national rate. | d. | slightly lower than the national
rate. |
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President Hoover responded cautiously to the Great Depression because he
a. | thought that the business cycle would correct itself. | b. | was distracted by
the giant dust storms in the Great Plains. | c. | did not have any experience with business
methods and economic theory. | d. | believed that the federal government needed to
take an active approach to recovery. |
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The policy of volunteerism called for which of the following?
a. | higher taxes | b. | businesses to keep employment, wages &
prices at current levels. | c. | cuts in employment and
wages | d. | less reliance on charitable contributions |
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President Hoover urged Congress to institute the RFC because he believed that
the economy suffered from
a. | a lack of credit. | b. | over-employment. | c. | too much government
regulation. | d. | a concentration of wealth in large businesses. |
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Some Americans blamed the Great Depression on
a. | fascism. | c. | capitalism. | b. | socialism. | d. | communism. |
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Why did many Americans decide that the country needed new leadership in
1932?
a. | Prices for farm products were rising again. | b. | Congress had passed
a bill to pay World War I veterans their bonuses early. | c. | President
Hoover’s volunteerism and trickle-down economic policies had failed. | d. | President Hoover
denied responsibility for the use of federal troops against
protestors. |
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What was the destination of most Dust Bowl migrants?
a. | agricultural areas to the north | c. | Colorado’s central
valley | b. | cities to find work | d. | Kansas City |
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Directions: Answer the following questions on a separate sheet of
paper.
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How did the uneven distribution of the nation’s wealth lead to the
depression?
a. | Farmers had huge surpluses of crops but demand for them decreased drastically so they
went into debt. | b. | Acquiring a line of credit was easy, but it caused more debt for people who could not
make payments. | c. | Wealthy people grew wealthier and had money to spend on consumer products, but this
spending was not enough to keep the economy booming. | d. | All of the
above. |
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Why were banks one of the first institutions to feel the effects of the stock
market crash?
a. | People began to lose confidence in the economy and frightened depositors began to
remove their money from banks. | b. | Banks gave out too many loans in the early
1920s so there was a great deal of money in circulation. | c. | The Federal Reserve
increased interest rates in the 1920s to stimulate economic growth, but then limited money supply to
discourage lending. | d. | After the stock market crash people went to
banks to secure their hard money so they could circulate it back into the
economy. |
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Use the timeline and your knowledge of social studies to answer the following
questions.
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What did President Hoover do that directly led the Bonus Army march on
Washington in 1932?
a. | vetoed the Adjusted Compensation Act | b. | encouraged the beginning of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation | c. | vetoed the bill that Congress passed allowing
early bonus payment to out-of-work veterans | d. | allowed federal troops to remove the Bonus Army
with great force |
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What event happened when the veteran groups marched in protest on
Washington?
a. | Five hundred thousand protesters used force to occupy government
buildings. | b. | The U.S. Senate ordered General MacArthur to use federal troops to remove the
protestors by using force. | c. | General MacArthur, along with Dwight Eisenhower
and George Patton, agreed it was necessary to use poison gas to remove the
protestors. | d. | Federal troops used tear-gas and marched with their bayonets on the protestors, many
of the veterans were injured and their “Hoovervilles” were
burned. |
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