Question 1

Spending more than you save, sometimes using credit

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consumerism

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underproduction

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buying stock on margin

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overproduction

Question 2

manufacturing a lot very quickly

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mass production

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Industrial Revolution

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Urbanization

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overproduction

Question 3

When a company makes too much

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overproduction

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underconsumption

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underproduction

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overconsumption

Question 4

People aren't buying the entire supply

Accepted Answer

underconsumption

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all of these

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underproduction

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overconsumption

Question 5

Taking out loans to invest

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Buying stock on margin

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none of these

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mass production

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assembly line

Question 6

In the 1920s, American farmers

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were overproducing

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were underconsuming

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were underproducing

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were overconsuming

Question 7

In the 1920s prices _________ but wages _______

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increased; increased but only slightly

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increased; decreased

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decreased slightly; increased rapidly

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decreased; decreased

Question 8

Stock market crash nickname

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Black Tuesday

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Manic Monday

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Black Friday

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Pink Friday

Question 9

Date of "Black Tuesday"

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October 29, 1929

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October 29, 1919

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October 19, 1929

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October 29, 1909

Question 10

People begin withdrawing cash from their bank accounts

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run on the bank

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bankrupty

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closing accounts

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jog to the bank

Question 11

Didn't directly cause the Great Depression but made it worse

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Dust Bowl

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drought

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Super Bowl

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overfarming

Question 12

If you can't pay back a loan, eventually the bank will

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foreclose on your home or other assets

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sue you for damages

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none of these

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call the police to arrest you

Question 13

People in the Dust Bowl

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moved to California in large numbers to work as laborers on farm

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mostly moved to the nation from which their ancestors had emigrated

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moved to the East Coast

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moved to California to be movie stars

Question 14

towns of homeless Americans

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Hoovervilles

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Hoovertowns

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Rooseveltvilles

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Coolidgeburgs

Question 15

fireside chats

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FDR's radio addresses to Americans

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conversations where stock market investors talked to bank loan officers

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Hoover and Coolidge's conversations agreeing to leave the economy alone

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FDR's conversations with his cabinet

Question 16

Plan to provide direct relief

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New Deal

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Square Deal

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all of these

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Fair Deal

Question 17

TVA

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all of these

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Tennessee Valley Authority

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provided electricity to the Southeast

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provided jobs in the Southeast

Question 18

New Deal law requiring companies to allow unions

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Wagner Act

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Union Protection Act

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WPA

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Social Security Act

Question 19

New Deal act that has impacted the US the most

Accepted Answer

SSA

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AAA

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TVA

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WPA

Question 20

Huey Long

Accepted Answer

thought FDR needed to do more in the New Deal

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thought FDR was a socialist

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thought FDR was wrong to enter WWII

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encouraged the internment of  Japanese-Americans

Question 21

FDR's plan to keep the New Deal from being declared unconstitutional

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the Court Packing Scheme

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the Court  Dissolution Act

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the Congressional replacement scheme

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none of these

Question 22

Caused by increasing tariffs (taxes on imports)

Accepted Answer

global economic depression

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WWII

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Great Depression

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all of these

Question 23

Attempt to stay out of WWII

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Neutrality Act

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League of Nations

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Treaty of Versailles

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Peace Act

Question 24

Germany, Japan, Italy

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Axis Powers

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Central Powers

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none of these

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Allied Powers

Question 25

Lend Lease Act

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Allowed the US to help the Allies as a loophole

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demanded that Germany pay the reparations from WWI faster

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Forced the Allies to return old equipment

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completed repealed the Neutrality Acts

Question 26

Eleanor Roosevelt is known for

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all of these

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traveling as a representative of her husband, FDR

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ignoring Jim Crow laws

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supporting women's rights

Question 27

Pearl Harbor

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all of these

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Reason the US entered WWII

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"A day that will live in infamy"

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December 7, 1941

Question 28

Name for the US fighting with Japan

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Pacific Theater

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Pacific Ocean

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Asian Theater

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Ring of Fire

Question 29

Turning Point, beginning of island hopping

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Battle of Midway

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D-Day

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Fall of Berlin

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Pearl Harbor

Question 30

Research on the atomic bomb

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Manhattan Project

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Neutrality Act

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all of these

Answer

Isolationism

Question 31

Aug. 6 and Aug. 9 1945

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bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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D-Day

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Fall of Berlin

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signing of the Treaty of Versailles

Question 32

June 6, 1944

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D-Day or the Invasion of Normandy

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date of Hitler's suicide

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Fall of Berlin

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first test of nuclear bomb

Question 33

Basically the end of the war in the European Theater

Accepted Answer

Fall of Berlin, April 30 1945

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Stalingrad

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Hiroshima

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V-J Day

Question 34

Coordinated agreements between companies and unions

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War Production Board

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Knights of Labor

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Wagner Act

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American Federation of Labor

Question 35

Ended the Great Depression

Accepted Answer

World War II production

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"First Hundred Days" of FDR's presidency

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New Deal

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victory gardens

Question 36

Rosie the Riveter

Accepted Answer

represented women's contributions to the war effort

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supported women's suffrage

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demanded higher pay

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supported the Fair Employment Act

Question 37

Result of Pearl Harbor

Accepted Answer

Internment of Japanese-Americans

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the beginning of intense racism in the US

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