History Test 03
Fall 2006
Chapter 23
Question 01
• Definition: A Jamaican immigrant who
promised to “organize the 400 million
Negroes of the World into a vast
organization to plan the banner of freedom
in the great continent of Africa.
• Marcus Garvey
Question 02
• What two groups united, for different
reasons, to create the political movement
which passed prohibition?
• Fundamentalist Protestants
and Women
Question 03
• Definition: An African American novelist
who embodied the creative and artistic
aspirations of the Harlem Renaissance in
the 1920s.
• Zora Neale Hurston
Question 04
• What invention redefined American
culture?
• the automobile
Question 05
• Definition: A serious novelist of the day
and author of the Great Gatsby who, along
with his wife Zelda, captured attention as
the embodiment of the free spirit of the
Jazz Age.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
Question 06
• What does “buying stocks on margin”
mean?
• buying stocks with credit using
the stock as collateral
Question 07
• Definition: Local authorities indicted this
Dayton, Tennessee school-teacher for
teaching evolution in one of his classes.
The jury found him guilty and assessed a
small fine.
• Scopes Trial
Chapter 24
Question 08
• Definition: A vigorous reformer as governor
of New York, he became the first Roman
Catholic to win the nomination of a major
party for president of the United States.
• Al Smith
Question 09
• What U.S. president never held either
elective office or high military rank before
being elected president?
• Herbert Hoover
Question 10
• Definition: Thousands of veterans,
determined to collect promised cash
bonuses early, came to Washington during
the summer of 1932 to listen to Congress
debate the bonus proposal.
• Bonus Army
Question 11
• In what Central American nation did a U.S.
military intervention lead to a civil war led
by Augusto Sadino?
• Nicaragua
Question 12
• Definition: A group of black youths
accused of raping a white woman in
Alabama who (the group) became a
source of controversy and the focus of civil
rights activism in the early 1930s.
• Scottsboro Boys
Question 13
• What treaty signed in 1929 sought to limit
the size of the navies of the world’s most
powerful countries?
• Kellogg-Briand Pact
Question 14
• What was President Herbert Hoover’s
response to the economic crisis first
evident in the Stock Market crash?
• He hoped that voluntary actions by
industries and businesses would
solve the nation’s problems.
Chapter 25
Question 15
• Definition: One of the New Deal’s most
popular programs, it took unemployed
young men from the cities and put them to
work on conservation projects in the
country.
• Civilian Conservation Corps
Question 16
• When Franklin Delano Roosevelt
proposed his plans for dealing with the
national economic crisis known as the
Great Depression, where had he used
many of those programs successfully
before becoming president?
• New York State
Question 17
• Definition: Created in 1933 during the New
Deal’s first hundred days, it was a massive
experiment in regional planning that focused
on providing electricity, flood control, and soil
conservation to one the nation’s poorest
regions, covering seven states (Virginia, N.
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, S.
Carolina & Mississippi).
• Tennessee Valley Authority
Question 18
• Definition: Enacted on June 16, 1933, this
emergency measure was designed to
encourage industrial recovery and help
combat widespread unemployment.
• National Industrial Recovery Act
(NIRA)
Question 19
• Definition: A Populist but dictatorial
governor of Louisiana (1928-1932), he
instituted major public works legislation,
and as a U.S. senator (1932-1935), he
proposed a national “Share-the-Wealth”
program.
• Senator Huey P. Long
Question 20
• What was most unique about Charles
Coughlin, a very popular commentator
who had a radio program which first
supported but eventually criticized the
programs of President Franklin D.
Roosevelt?
• He was a Catholic priest
Question 21
• Definition: A labor leader who was
president of the United Mine Workers of
America (1920-1960) and the Congress of
Industrial Organizations (1935-1940).
• John L. Lewis
Question 22
• Definition: An educator who sought
improved racial relations and educational
opportunities for black Americans, she was
part of the U.S. delegation to first United
Nations meeting in 1945.
• Mary McLeod Bethune
Question 23
• What did President Franklin D. Roosevelt
state was the greatest threat to America’s
economic survival?
• fear
Question 24
• Many of President Roosevelt’s critics
stated correctly that his many social
programs did not end the Great
Depression, but rather the onset of World
War II did. What significant fact is ignored
in this criticism?
• The Supreme Court found FDR’s more
ambitious solutions, that may have
succeeded, to be unconstitutional.
Question 25
• Definition: Written by John Steinbeck and
published in 1939, this novel depicts the
struggle of ordinary Americans in the
Great Depression, following the plight of
the Joad family as it migrated west from
Oklahoma to California.
• The Grapes of Wrath
Questions from the video
FDR: The War Years
Question 26
• Before World War II began, what
happened in Spain?
• Spain was engulfed in a civil
war
Question 27
• Who was Neville Chamberlain?
• British Prime Minister
Question 28
• When did World War II start? What year?
• 1939
Question 29
• Who ran against FDR in 1944?
• Thomas E. Dewey
Question 30
• Where did FDR die? When?
• Warm Springs, Georgia (1945)