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Great Depression Quiz #1

Quiz by John Frieser

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  • Q1
    During the 1920s, which economic trend helped cause the Great Depression?
    buying goods on credit
    continuing shortages of consumer goods
    imposing low tariffs on imported products
    saving rather than spending
    30s
  • Q2
    What was a basic cause of the Great Depression of the 1930s?
    Too many antitrust laws were passed.
    Tariffs on foreign manufactured goods were reduced.
    Immigration was not limited.
    The distribution of income was unequal.
    30s
  • Q3
    One of the major causes of the stock market crash of 1929 was
    overconsumption of goods and services
    failure of international banking systems
    excessive buying of stocks on margin
    low prices of stocks and bonds
    30s
  • Q4
    Which event led to the start of the Great Depression?
    election of President Herbert Hoover (1928)
    stock market crash (1929)
    Red Scare (1919-1920)
    passage of the Emergency Banking Act (1933)
    30s
  • Q5
    Many farmers failed to share in the general prosperity of the 1920s mainly because they
    had to pay high wages to their workers
    did not have sufficient numbers of farm laborers
    received low prices for crops due to overproduction
    lacked new farm machinery to increase production
    30s
  • Q6
    Which region of the United States suffered most directly from the Dust Bowl?
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    Great Plains
    Southwest
    Rocky Mountains
    Pacific Northwest
    30s
  • Q7
    Many Americans responded to photographs such as this by
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    opposing government subsidies for low-income housing
    criticizing the government for its treatment of World War I veterans
    demanding legislation to increase the power of the military
    petitioning Congress to decrease funding for the Veterans Administration
    30s
  • Q8
    Communities such as the one shown in this photograph from the 1930s were called "Hoovervilles" because of President Herbert Hoover's
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    support for federal programs to provide jobs for the unemployed
    emergency relief program to provide food to the poor
    efforts to help the residents return to their farms
    refusal to provide direct federal aid to the homeless
    30s

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