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TEST 21 The Great Depression 1928-1932

Quiz by Mark Stegall

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  • Q1
    Connect the descriptions to Cause or Effect of the Great Depression
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    30s
  • Q2
    During the 1920s, most Americans considered the nation's economy to be
    growing
    declining
    steady
    unstable
    30s
  • Q3
    Average Americans were able to buy more consumer goods during the 1920s because of
    rising wages and easy credit
    a concentration of wealth
    declining production
    lower agricultural prices
    30s
  • Q4
    Which of these factors contributed to wealth disparity in the 1920s
    huge corporate profits
    declining industrial wages
    rising value of agricultural products
    lower consumer debt
    30s
  • Q5
    What precipitated the stock market crash?
    declining farm production
    loss of investor confidence
    high industrial unemployment
    runs on the nation's banks
    30s
  • Q6
    which circumstance contributed to the collapse of the banking system?
    Consumers refused to buy on credit
    Farm production dropped suddenly
    Not enough money was in circulation
    Stock prices skyrocketed
    30s
  • Q7
    Congress passed the Hawley-Smoot Tariff to
    attract more European imports
    protect prices on American goods
    fix wages at American factories
    encourage American exports
    30s
  • Q8
    Europe responded to the Hawley-Smoot Tariff by
    selling more European goods in the United States
    opening European markets
    buying more American goods
    raising prices on American imports
    30s
  • Q9
    Workers who kept their jobs during the Great Depression often
    faced wage and hour cuts
    had moved west
    worked on farms
    worked with an employment office
    30s
  • Q10
    Which group of people built Hoovervilles?
    tenant farmers
    homeless people
    Okies
    immigrants
    30s
  • Q11
    Most farmers who left the Dust Bowl set out for which state?
    New York
    Nebraska
    Texas
    California
    30s
  • Q12
    which human and geographic factors combined to cause the Dust Bowl?
    massive unemployment and natural disasters
    intensive farming practices and drought
    westward migration and a desert climate
    overproduction and damming of rivers
    30s
  • Q13
    Approximately how many people fled the Great Plains because of the Dust Bowl?
    hundreds
    tens of thousands
    thousands
    hundreds of thousands
    30s
  • Q14
    What effect did the Great Depression have on minority groups such as mexican and African Americans?
    Discriminatory practices endorsed during the Great Depression
    Minority groups had more job opportunities during the Great Depression
    Increases in immigration during the Great Depression gave minority groups more influence.
    The Great Depression did not really change conditions for minority groups
    30s
  • Q15
    President hoover was very committed to a policy based on which of the following?
    regulation
    speculation
    volunteerism
    repatriation
    30s

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