chapter 24

Question 1

date of “Black Tuesday”

Answer 1

October 29, 1929

Question 2

year of the Twenty-first Amendment

Answer 2

1933

Question 3

president from 1929-1933

Answer 3

Herbert Hoover

Question 4

president from 1933-1945

Answer 4

Franklin Roosevelt

Question 5

president at the height of America’s financial success

Answer 5

Herbert Hoover

Question 6

Herbert Hoover’s vice president

Answer 6

Charles Curtis

Question 7

causes of the Great Depression

Answer 7

1. easy credit on loans
2. use of installment plans
3. risky investments such as speculation and buying on margin
4. financial crisis for farmers

Question 8

date the stock market crashed and $30 billion was immediately lost

Answer 8

October 29, 1929

Question 9

results of the stock market crash

Answer 9

1. banks failed after lost investments and bank runs
2. very high unemployment
3. Federal Reserve System allowed for heavy government intervention

Question 10

severe drought in the mid 1930s

Answer 10

Dust Bowl

Question 11

wrote The Grapes of Wrath, criticizing government involvement in the depression

Answer 11

John Steinbeck

Question 12

Hoover advocated ________ to recover from the Great Depression

Answer 12

rugged individualism

Question 13

Hoover initiated the ___________ project for hydroelectric power

Answer 13

Hoover Dam

Question 14

highest tariff in America’s (peace-time) history

Answer 14

Smoot-Hawley Tariff

Question 15

only nation to repay WWI debts

Answer 15

Finland

Question 16

first American to win the Nobel Peace Prize in literature

Answer 16

Sinclair Lewis

Question 17

poets like these two reflected the American spirit of perseverance

Answer 17

Carl Sandburg (The People, Yes) and T.S. Eliot (Ash Wednesday)

Question 18

depicted the lives of “decayed” Southern aristocrats

Answer 18

William Faulkner

Question 19

wrote Gone with the Wind

Answer 19

Margaret Mitchell

Question 20

produced Our Town

Answer 20

Thorton Wilder

Question 21

created the American Gothic (symbol of American Midwest)

Answer 21

Grant Wood

Question 22

tallest Art Deco style building for 40 years; famous skyscraper

Answer 22

Empire State Building

Question 23

completed in 1937; longest and tallest suspension bridge in the world at the time

Answer 23

Golden Gate Bridge

Question 24

wrote “God Bless America”

Answer 24

Irving Berlin

Question 25

name for the time period where radio communication became very popular

Answer 25

Golden Age of Radio

Question 26

________ became popular as a result of the newspaper

Answer 26

comic books

Question 27

famous animated cartoon

Answer 27

Snow White

Question 28

the motion picture production code

Answer 28

Hays Code

Question 29

removed the “lame duck” sessions of Congress

Answer 29

Twentieth Amendment

Question 30

FDR’s closest advisors; economic experts and professors

Answer 30

Brain Trust

Question 31

economist that was the most notable Brain Trust member

Answer 31

John Maynard Keynes ("Keynesian Economics")

Question 32

FDR's Three R's to fix the economy

Answer 32

relief, recovery, reform

Question 33

FDR was known for giving _________ on the radio

Answer 33

fireside chats

Question 34

rush to withdraw money

Answer 34

bank runs

Question 35

temporary closing down of banks

Answer 35

bank holiday

Question 36

gave the president broad power to control banking policies

Answer 36

Emergency Banking Relief Act

Question 37

took the country off the gold standard act

Answer 37

FDR

Question 38

government reduction of the supply of food

Answer 38

Agricultural Adjustment Act

Question 39

controlled wages and limited business

Answer 39

National Recovery Administration

Question 40

released tax money to state and local governments for relief of the unemployed

Answer 40

Federal Emergency Relief Administration

Question 41

erected dams and hydroelectric plants

Answer 41

Tennessee Valley Authority

Question 42

employed thousands of young men in conservation projects

Answer 42

Civilian Conservation Corps

Question 43

created the Works Progress Administration to employ people for public improvement projects

Answer 43

Public Works Administration

Question 44

repeal of prohibition

Answer 44

Twenty-first Amendment

Question 45

Franklin Roosevelt recognized ______ as a form of government

Answer 45

Communist Russia

Question 46

Roosevelt advocated the ________

Answer 46

Good Neighbor Policy

Question 47

advocated stronger government control and reform

Answer 47

Huey "Kingfish" Long

Question 48

fund would be financed for retired workers by taxes

Answer 48

Social Security Act

Question 49

John L. Lewis organized this

Answer 49

Committee for Industrial Organizations

Question 50

only president to serve more than 2 consecutive terms

Answer 50

FDR