Great Depression Vocabulary Quiz
13 Questions
| Total Attempts: 62
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Questions and Answers
- 1.October 29th, 1929 when the DJIA fell 12% - one of the largest one-day drops in stock market history. More than 16 million shares were traded in a panic selloff. The day stock market crashed leads into great depression.
- A.
Black Tuesday
- B.
New Deal
- C.
Deficit Spending
- 2.Share our Wealth is the investing of money in a high-risk venture in hopes of making a profit
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 3.a group of 12,000 World War I veterans who massed (marched) in Washington, D.C., the summer of 1932 to induce Congress to appropriate moneys for the payment of bonus certificates granted in 1924.
- 4.Legislative that raised US duties on imports to all-time highs; cause foreign government to raise their own trade restrictions
- A.
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
- B.
Hundred Days
- C.
Fireside Chats
- 5.Special session of congress in 1933 during which the bulk of New Deals programs was passed
- 6.Government spending that exceeds the amount received in revenue
- A.
Deficiet Spending
- B.
New Deal
- C.
WPA
- 7.WPA or Works Progress Administration: New Deal agency created to put American men and women to work construction and repairing bridges, roads, buildings, and parks
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.a law passed in 1935 providing old-age retirement insurance, a federal-state program of unemployment compensation, and federal grants for state welfare programs.
- A.
Hoovervilles
- B.
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
- C.
Social Security Act
- 9.Buying on Margin- purchased stocks on credit
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 10.President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s radio addresses to the American people
- 11.The investing of money in a high-risk venture in hopes of making a profit
- A.
Bonus Army
- B.
Speculation
- C.
Hoovervilles
- 12.A collection of huts and shacks, as at the edge of a city, housing the unemployed during the 1930s.
- 13.President franklin D Roosevelt’s programs for helping the US economy during the Great Depression
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Sample QuestionWhat did many politicians and economists find surprising about 1931?
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Sample QuestionIn the Introductions, what does Paul Johnson say was the orthodox explanation for the worldwide economic contraction of the 1930s?
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Sample QuestionWhat caused the Great Depression?
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