Unit 8 Study Guide
1. Since 1934, companies that wish to publicly sell stock are required to disclose
information about their business practices and the risks involved in investing. This
decision was made largely because?
2. How did human factors contribute to the environmental devastation caused by the
Dust Bowl?
3. Hoovervilles can be described as
4. President Franklin Roosevelt established the Tennessee Valley Authority in order to
5. How did the Wagner Act of 1935 promote American labor unions?
6. As part of the second New Deal, Franklin Roosevelt wanted to help guarantee
retirement incomes of Americans. Which program was responsible for this?
7. List all that Eleanor Roosevelt was most famous for as the First Lady.
8. Huey Long seriously challenged President Franklin Roosevelt by
9. Social Security was a New Deal program designed to
10. What was the Court Packing Scheme? When did it happen?
11. The Stock Market crash of 1929 did what to the Great Depression?
Use the following statement to answer the question below.
Excerpt from a speech given by Huey Long, March 7, 1935
So it has been while millions have starved and gone naked and while babies have cried and
died wanting milk; so it has been while people begged for meat and bread to eat. Mr. Roosevelt's
administration has sailed merrily along, plowing under and destroying the things to eat and wear,
with tear-dimmed eyes and hungry souls made to chant for this New Deal so that even their
starvation dole is not taken away from them, and meanwhile the food and clothes craved by
humanity for their bodies and souls go to destruction and ruin.
12. Huey Long is criticizing President Roosevelt for which policy: agriculture or foreign
policy?
13. One major way President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal tried to combat the
effects of the Great Depression was by? (Hint: three R’s and what they mean)
14. The photograph above shows a breadline in New York City during the Great
Depression. Such breadlines were common during this period because-?
15. Why did congress pass the Wagner Act in 1935?
16. How did the 1763 Treaty of Paris - which ended the French and Indian (Seven Year’s)
War – help start the American Revolution?
17. What role did France play in the American Revolution?
18. During the Revolutionary War, Benjamin Franklin served as a
Use the following list to answer question #:19
Proposed Bills
 No person may carry a firearm.
 No publishing of documents
criticizing the government
 State’s may not make their own laws
19. Why are the proposed bills in the list above unlikely to ever become laws in the United
States?
20. During the debate over the ratification of the Constitution of the United States, Federalists
and Anti-Federalists disagreed MOST often over
21. Most anti-Federalists changed from opponents to supporters of the Constitution after they
were promised
22. In 1896, the Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that
23. Investigative journalists of the early 20th century who exposed social and political
corruption were known as
24. The United States supported a revolution in Panama at the turn of the 20th Century in
order to
25. What did the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine state?
26. In which book did Upton Sinclair describe the terrible working and food-production
conditions in the meat-packing industry?
27. How did the Whiskey Rebellion affect George Washington’s Presidency?
28. The first political parties in America arose primarily because of
29. Why did Jane Addams establish the Hull House in Chicago?
30. Why would a majority of poor people living in cities in the late 1890s and early 1900s
be likely to support progressive leaders?