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CHAPTER 21 – THE GREAT DEPRESSION
SECTION 1 – CAUSES OF THE DEPRESSION
MATCHING DIRECTIONS: Place the letter of the correct term from the word bank with the description that best matches.
For the terms that are NOT used, write a brief definition on a separate sheet of paper.
a. business cycle
b. Herbert Hoover
c. Black Tuesday
d. Hawley-Smoot Tariff
e. speculation
f. Great Depression
_____1. a time of economic downturn and high unemployment between 1929 and 1941
_____2. the periodic expansion and contraction of the economy
_____3. United States President from 1929 to 1933
_____4. a risky stock purchase intended to turn quick profits
_____5. a tax passed in 1930 on foreign products brought into the United States
_____6. the time at which the stock market collapsed in the Great Crash
MULTIPLE CHOICE DIRECTIONS: Write the letter of the best answer or ending in each blank.
_____7. Which of these factors helped hide economic problems in the 1920s?
a. Investors lost confidence in the market.
b. Farmers sold crop surpluses to pay off their debts.
c. Americans purchased many consumer goods on credit.
d. Wages increased at the same pace as worker productivity.
_____8. Why did so many banks fail at the onset of the Great Depression?
a. Too many investors tried to open new accounts.
b. Too many depositors tried to withdraw their money all at once.
c. The stock market collapsed too slowly to collect on debts.
d. The Federal Reserve put too much money into circulation.
_____9. European countries reacted to the Hawley-Smoot Tariff by
a. increasing global trade.
b. taxing American imports.
c. importing more American goods.
d. lowering prices on exports.
_____10. What economic condition did economist John Maynard Keynes believe caused the Great Depression?
a. lack of government intervention
b. strict controls on stock speculation
c. too much oversight of banking
d. limits on production and spending
SECTION 2 – AMERICANS FACE HARD TIMES
MATCHING DIRECTIONS: Place the correct term from the word bank in the blank provided that best completes the
statements. For the terms that are NOT used, write a brief definition on a separate sheet of paper.
bread lines
Hoovervilles
tenant farmers
Dust Bowl
Okies
repatriation
11. Dust Bowl refugees from the Great Plains, called _________________________, headed west to look for work.
12. During the Great Depression, many homeless people grouped together to build _________________________, or
makeshift shantytowns of tents and shacks.
13. _________________________ lived on and worked land owned by someone else.
14. Local, state, and federal governments tried to coerce Mexican immigrants to return to Mexico through
_________________________.
15. Impoverished people in the cities often waited in _________________________ to obtain free food from charities
and public agencies.
16. The _________________________ caused hundreds of thousands of people to migrate from the Great Plains.
MULTIPLE CHOICE DIRECTIONS: Write the letter of the best answer or ending in each blank.
_____17. At the onset of the Great Depression, urban unemployment
a. decreased slightly.
b. stayed about the same.
c. increased slightly.
d. increased dramatically.
_____18. Members of the Taxpayers Protection League resisted evictions by
a. building Hoovervilles.
b. staging nonviolent protests.
c. moving to cheaper lodgings.
d. pooling resources to pay their rent.
_____19. Farmers contributed to the problems that led to the Dust Bowl by
a. putting down new layers of topsoil.
b. moving off of the plains to find new farmland.
c. damming western rivers and using irrigation techniques.
d. using intensive farming practices that removed protective grasses.
_____20. The unemployment rate among African Americans was
a. nearly double the national rate.
b. slightly higher than the national rate.
c. about the same as the national rate.
d. slightly lower than the national rate.
SECTION 3 – HOOVER’S RESPONSE FAILS
MATCHING DIRECTIONS: Place the letter of the correct term from the word bank with the description that best matches.
For the terms that are NOT used, write a brief definition on a separate sheet of paper.
a. Bonus Army
b. Douglas MacArthur
c. Hoover Dam
d. localism
e. RFC
f. trickle-down economics
_____21. a policy committed to solving problems at the local and state levels
_____22. the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, instituted by Congress in 1932 to make government loans to
railroads, businesses, and banks to stimulate economic recovery
_____23. the theory that money poured into the top of the economic pyramid will trickle down to the base
_____24. a large public works project that brought much-needed employment to the Southwest in the early 1930s
_____25. a group of World War I veterans who marched on Washington, D.C., to demand the bonus money that
Congress had promised them for their service
_____26. the general who ordered federal troops to fire tear gas on protestors in Washington, D.C.
MULTIPLE CHOICE DIRECTIONS: Write the letter of the best answer or ending in each blank.
_____27. President Hoover responded cautiously to the depression because he
a. thought that the business cycle would correct itself.
b. was distracted by the giant dust storms in the Great Plains.
c. had little experience with business methods and economic theory.
d. wanted to take an aggressive approach to recovery.
_____28. President Hoover urged Congress to institute the RFC because he believed that the economy suffered from
a. a lack of credit.
b. over-employment.
c. too much regulation.
d. a concentration of wealth.
_____29. Some Americans blamed the Great Depression on
a. fascism.
b. socialism.
c. capitalism.
d. communism.
_____30. Why did many Americans want new leadership in 1932?
a. Prices for farm products were rising again.
b. Congress passed a bill to pay World War I veterans their bonuses early.
c. President Hoover’s economic policies had failed.
d. President Hoover denied responsibility for the use of federal troops against protestors.
_____31. What does this photograph show?
a. bank closures
b. a Hooverville
c. the Dust Bowl
d. the stock market crash
_____16. People likely abandoned this place because
a. the land could not be farmed.
b. they had lost their investments.
c. the banks had closed.
d. they were homeless.