Great Depression Review
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Multiple Choice – Text Reading
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1.In the 1930s the United States went into a severe economic state called the
a. Great Inflation.
b. Great Downturn.
c. Great Depression.
d. Great Recession.
2.In 1931 President Herbert Hoover authorized spending on highways, parks, and libraries, or
a. recreation.
b. relief projects.
c. public works projects.
d. financial projects.
3.Charities, churches, and volunteers worked heroically to provide aid for the needy called
a. relief.
b. City Support.
c. assistance to the poor.
d. financial aid.
4.This New Deal program built dams to provide cheap electricity to six Southern states.
a. Social Security Act
b. PWA
c. CCC
d. TVA
5.This person was President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "eyes and ears."
a. Hattie Caraway
b. Eleanor Roosevelt
c. Ralph Bunche
d. John Collier
6.This member of Roosevelt's Black Cabinet worked for the State Department.
a. John Collier
b. Marian Anderson
c. Ralph Bunche
d. Mary McLeod Bethune
7.Daytime radio shows sponsored by laundry detergents earned the nickname
a. laundry shows.
b. soap operas.
c. bubbles.
d. dirty `n' clean.
8.This photographer took gripping photographs of migrant workers.
a. Dorothea Lange
b. Grant Wood
c. Walker Evans
d. Thomas Hart Benton
9.This act provided monthly pensions for retired people.
a. WPA
b. Revenue Act
c. Townsend Act
d. Social Security Act
10.This 1937-1938 disaster was reversed by a flood of government spending on public works.
a. Tennessee Valley flood
b. Wagner Act
c. Roosevelt Recession
d. Spanish Civil War
11.In the Great Depression those hardest hit were the
a. industrial cities.
b. suburbs.
c. rural areas.
d. small towns.
12.President Herbert Hoover believed the Great Depression was only temporary and that prosperity was
a. "a matter of time."
b. "due the American people."
c. "coming next year."
d. "just around the corner."
13.Franklin Roosevelt counted on this group to help him guide the nation to recovery.
a. Ohio Gang
b. Brain Trust
c. Black Cabinet
d. Congress
14.This project helped farmers.
a. PWA
b. CCC
c. TVA
d. AAA
15.Roosevelt called this program, "the most important and far-reaching legislation" ever passed in the United
States.
a. NIRA
b. PWA
c. TVA
d. NRA
16.This head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs introduced the Indian New Deal.
a. Ralph Bunche
b. Mary McLeod Bethune
c. John Collier
d. Frances Perkins
17.Radical political groups viewed the Depression as the
a. death of a failed system.
b. chance for reform.
c. beginning of the end.
d. just dues for capitalists.
18.This painter showed ordinary people confronting the hardships of Depression life.
a. Richard Wright
b. Grant Wood
c. John Steinbeck
d. George Burns
19.This popular radio comedian had a variety show with Gracie Allen.
a. John Steinbeck
b. George Burns
c. Ralph Bunche
d. Frances Perkins
20.What unpopular action did Roosevelt use to keep the New Deal from being undone?
a. Wagner Act
b. radio talks
c. court-packing plan
d. Social Security Act