AP US HISTORY NAME: __________________________
The Great Depression QUEST
Please WRITE the letter in the space provided. Full points will NOT be given for circled answers.
___ 1.) Who was the first woman to ever serve in the Cabinet of the President of the United
States?
A.) Frances Perkins
C.) Scarlett Adams
E.) Sojourner Truth
B.) Eleanor Roosevelt
D.) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
___ 2.) What organization was overseen by Harry Hopkins?
A.) Civil Works Administration B.) Civilian Conservation Corps.
C.) Emergency Banking Relief Act D.) Tennessee Valley Authority
E.) National Labor Relations Act
___ 3.) The American Liberty League (ALL) formed to:
A.) Harmed home owners B.) Threaten individual freedom
C.) Opposed the TVA D.) Opposed the New Deal
E.) Helped to get the AAA ruled unconstitutional
___ 4.) Members of the __________________ participated in a sit down strike until GM agreed to recognize them.
A.) United Assembly Workers
C.) United Auto Workers
B.) Unlimited Assemblers Workers
D.) University Alderman Workers
E.) United Aldermen for Women Suffrage
___ 5.) Who, of the following people, probably had more of a role in the actual conditions that eventually led to the start of The Great Depression due to the way the economy works?
A.) Herbert Hoover B.) Franklin Roosevelt C.) William Taft
D.) William Jennings Bryan E.) Calvin Coolidge
___ 6.) Policies under Hoover demonstrated that:
A.) The federal government shouldn’t offer direct aid to people
B.) Local government would have met the needs of the people if given more time
C.) Private charities did not have enough resources
D.) The trickle-down plan works very well for a short period of time
E.) The perfect plan would have been to withhold aid for longer
___ 7.) Hoover’s attempt to protect American businesses?
A.) Glass-Stegall Act B.) Dawes and Young Acts
C.) Hawley-Smoot Tariff
E.) National Industrial Board Act
D.) Mellon Tariff
___ 8.) Which of the following is accurate of the act mentioned above?
A.) Hurt American businesses
B.) Caused Europe to increase trade
C.) Raised the tariff rate to 30%
D.) Completely shut off European markets to our products
E.) All of these

___ 9.) The RFC did what?
A.) Funded retirement for the wealthiest Americans
B.) Gave money to banks, state governments, and other major businesses
C.) Order the closing of all banks to test their strength and stability
D.)
Help lead to a “Great Rebound” on Wall Street
E.) Helped Herbert Hoover get elected to another term
___ 10.) The Great Depression of the 1930s:
A.) Was the most important thing to happen to the United States
B.) Had the greatest influence on American life of any event in the 20 th century
C.) Was essentially unimportant once it ended
D.) Had only a trivial long-lasting emotional and psychological impact on Americans
E.) Turned out to be much less severe than the depressions of the 1870s and 1890s
___ 11.) New Deal program that was the government’s first attempt to stimulate the economy overall.
A.) CWA B.) CCC C.) NRA D.) NLRA E.) PWA
___ 12.) Which of the following New Deal programs supported the work of artists, actors, and writers?
(A) Public Works Administration
(B) Glass-Steagall Act
(C) Wagner Act
(D) Works Progress Administration
(E) National Recovery Administration
___ 13.) Which of the following was not a cause of the 1929 Stock Market Crash?
(A) margin-buying
(B) the Dust Bowl
(C) overproduction resulting in surpluses
(D) an increase in credit buying
(E) lack of investor confidence
___ 14.) One of the most controversial of the New Deal programs was the Agricultural Adjustment
Act which sought to:
(A) increase farm production and thus end the hunger present throughout much of the United States
(B) provide organizational help to tenant farmers, particularly African-Americans
(C) limit production to help boost farm prices
(D) bring socialism to the American farm
(E) do all of the above
___ 15.) As the 1920s came to an end:
A.) The tremendous growth in big business had created the healthiest economy the nation had ever seen
B.) Unequal distribution of wealth in the U.S. had created a significant problem in the economy
C.) American farmers had regained the economic prosperity that they had experienced during WW I
D.) The American population was wealthier than ever, with only a narrow gap in wealthy between the top and bottom of society
E.) The most serious economic problem facing the U.S. was the dislocation that occurred as the result of WW I
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16.) During World War I, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the suspension of the
Constitutional would be warranted in order to preserve national security. What case was this?
A.) Marbury v. Madison B.) Plessy v. Ferguson
C.) Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States D.) Schenck v. U.S
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E.) Roe v. Wade

___ 17.) The Mellon tax plan:
A.) Led to under consumption and wild speculation in the stock market
B.) Was instituted to pay for the enormous cost of the New Deal agencies
C.) Helped to lift the nation out of the Great Depression
D.) Was adopted by FDR as a remedy for under consumption
E.) Distributed the wealth more evenly
___ 18.) The National Recovery Administration (NRA) sought to address which of the following economic concerns with relief, recovery, and reform?
A.) Banking, industry, and trade
B.) Unemployment, labor, and industry
C.) Trade, unemployment, and internal improvements
D.) Labor, trade, and banking
E.) Farming, banking, and unemployment
___ 19.) President Hoover’s rationale in vetoing the Muscle Shoals Bill which would have dammed the Tennessee River, was based on his view that:
A.) There was no need for the project because the Tennessee Valley was rural and it residents would not benefit from electricity
B.) The government was adopting a socialist methods to resolve concerns of utilities
C.) The bill would promote internal improvements within Tennessee and therefore was the responsibility of the federal government
D.) The bill would benefit only one region rather than the entire nation
E.) The government had gone far enough in providing cheap electricity to all citizens
____ 20.) In order to address the problem of rampant speculation in the stock market, FDR:
A.) Closed the stock exchange for four days
B.) Placed a limit on how much money an individual or company could invest in the stock market
C.) Set a ceiling on how high the price of a stock could go
D.) Established the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
E.) Established the Securities and Exchange Commission
___ 21.) Which New Deal program established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), which protect individual bank accounts?
A.) Wagner Act
B.) Gold Reserve Act
C.) Securities and Exchange Act
D.) Reorganization Act
E.) Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act
___ 21.) Act that strengthen the abilities of unions to collectively bargain.
A.) Wagner Act B.) Butler Act
C.) Reconstruction Finance Act
E.) Glass-Steagall Act
D.) LISA (Labor and Industry Strengthening Act)
___ 22.) The worst day on the Stock Market that is often referred to as the Great Crash?
A.) October 29, 1929
B.) October 29, 1928
C.) Black Thursday
D.) Black Tuesday
E.) Both A and C
F.) Both B and C
G.) Both A and D

___ 23.) The Franklin Roosevelt administration:
A.) Marked the beginning of a dominating period for the Democrats of roughly 40 years
B.) Was the longest in American history but had little substantive influence on the policies of the US
C.) Was the first time in American history that the president was to assert personal influence on policy
D.) Was not effective as it might have been since the Republicans dominated both chambers of Congress
E.) Marked the end of a 40 year period in which the Republicans were the nation’s major party
___ 24.) Charles E. Coughlin:
A.) Criticized FDR for being too conservative and encourage him to spend more direct dollars
B.) Called for an old age revolving pension plan to serve those that were forced to retire as the result of the Depression
C.) Denounced a conspiracy of Jews, international bankers, the New Deal, and wanted a government takeover of financial institutions
D.) Established the Communist Party of the United States
E.) Wanted to gap the incomes of Americans at 3 million dollars and redistribute the wealth
___ 25.) Which of the following was a result of the New Deal?
A.) Got the United States out of the Great Depression
B.) Ended the reliance on the citizens on the government
C.) Bolstered the strength of the state governments
D.) Gave confidence in the people in the role of the government
E.) Marked a slight increase in the power of the government, but which will leave once Depression passed
___ 25.) Roosevelt’s Supreme Court battle of 1937:
A.) Weakened him politically
B.) Ended his bid for re-election
C.) Resulted in the removal of the majority of his New Deal programs
D.) Led to the start of the Second New Deal
E.) Resulted in the addition of five new Supreme Court Justices
___ 26.) The New Deal revolved heavily around:
A.) State government strengthening
B.) International guidance
C.)
FDR’s vision of a New World Order
D.) Deficient financing
E.) Volunteerism
___ 27.) The First Hundred Days:
A.) Was the most carefully thought out program in presidential history
B.) Ended the Depression and restored prosperity to the United States
C.) Established programs that ended capitalism in the United States
D.) Was a practical but sometime contradictory response to the Great Depression
E.) Were the harshest days of the Great Depression in which little was done to aid suffering Americans
___ 28.) The ecological disaster that devastated the southern Great Plains during the 1930s was the:
A.) Tornado outbreak of March 1, 1935 B.) Hurricane of 1932
C.) Dust Bowl
E.) The New Madrid Fault Earthquake
D.) Great Hail Storm of 1933
___ 29.) Name given to the thousands of migrant workers that fled to the west looking for work
A.) Bonus Army B.) Migratos
C.) Huskers
E.) Exodusters
D.) Okies
___ 30.) As the economy began to suffer after 1929, President Hoover
A.) Did nothing at all to stop the depression
B.) Failed to recognized the severity and prevent it from deepening
C.) Called for international assistance
D.) Increased the government tax rates on the wealthiest Americans
E.) Ended labor unions because of their driving up of wages.