5/25/23 Test

Question 1

1929-1941

Answer 1

Great Depression

Question 2

unable to pay debts

Answer 2

bankrupt

Question 3

a place where food is provided to the needy at little to no charge

Answer 3

soup kitchens

Question 4

projects set up by gov’t for public’s use

Answer 4

public works

Question 5

a group of shacks in which the homeless lived during the Great Depression

Answer 5

Hoovervilles

Question 6

a group of veterans who marched to Washington in 1932 to demand immediate payment of a WWI bonus

Answer 6

Bonus Army (Bonus Expeditionary Force)

Question 7

Oct 24, 1929

Answer 7

Black Thursday

Question 8

Oct 29, 1929

Answer 8

Black Tuesday

Question 9

a person who follows his or her own independent course in life; Hoover’s play

Answer 9

rugged individualism

Question 10

Young Mens Christian Assoc. set up soup kitchens

Answer 10

YMCA

Question 11

hired workers to build schools, courthouses, dams and highways; $500 mil was put into it; Ex: boulder dam

Answer 11

PWP (public works program)

Question 12

loaned $ to railroads, banks and businesses; $2 billion was put into it; Hoover’s policy

Answer 12

RFC (Reconstructive Finance Corp.)

Question 13

a radio speech given by FDR while in office

Answer 13

fireside chats

Question 14

the first hundred days of FDR’s presidency, when much New Deal legislation was enacted; 15 laws were passed

Answer 14

hundred days

Question 15

the program of FDR to end the Great Depression; Relief, Recovery, Reform

Answer 15

New Deal

Question 16

a process by which a union representing a group of workers negotiates with management for a contract

Answer 16

collective bargaining

Question 17

a sum of $ paid to people on a regular basis after they retire

Answer 17

pension

Question 18

spending more than you take in

Answer 18

deficit spending

Question 19

the total amount of $ that the gov’t owes

Answer 19

national debt

Question 20

32nd Pres, during the Great Depression

Answer 20

FDR

Question 21

senator from Louisiana; “King Fish”; believed the rich should be heavily taxed

Answer 21

Huey Long

Question 22

from California who wanted everyone over 60 to get a pension of $200 a month

Answer 22

Francis Townshend

Question 23

priest from Detroit who criticized FDR for not taking action against bankers and rich investors

Answer 23

Charles Coughlin

Question 24

a group of supporters who helped FDR plan his new deal

Answer 24

brain trust

Question 25

first woman to hold a cabinet post

Answer 25

Frances Perkins

Question 26

this would decide what banks were safe to reopen

Answer 26

emergency banking act

Question 27

headed by Harry Hopkins; gave jobs to single men ages 18-25

Answer 27

CCC (Civilian Conservation Corp)

Question 28

WPA

Answer 28

Works Progress Administration

Question 29

Ex: Grand Coulee Dam

Answer 29

PWA (Public Works Admin.)

Question 30

paid farmers not to grow certain crops

Answer 30

AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act)

Question 31

buyers of stocks pay 10% of the cost of the stock when they make the purchase

Answer 31

On Margin

Question 32

loaned $ to extend electrical lines to rural areas

Answer 32

REA (Rural Electrification Admin.)

Question 33

the region in the central and southern Great Plains that was hit by a severe drought, soil erosion and dust storms for 5 years

Answer 33

Dust Bowl

Question 34

a person who moves from one region to another in search of work

Answer 34

Migrant worker

Question 35

a group of black leaders who unofficially advised FDR concerning the situation of AA

Answer 35

Black Cabinet

Question 36

the rights due to all citizens especially voting and equal treatment under the law

Answer 36

civil rights

Question 37

a series of laws passed in the 1930s that gave American Indian nations greater control over their own affairs

Answer 37

Indian New Deal

Question 38

wife of FDR

Answer 38

Eleanor Roosevelt

Question 39

black educator who belonged to the Black Cabinet

Answer 39

Mary McLeod Bethune

Question 40

singer friend of Eleanor Roosevelt who was racially neglected at the DRA

Answer 40

Marion Anderson

Question 41

commissioner of Indian affairs

Answer 41

John Collier

Question 42

"Grapes of Wrath"

Answer 42

John Steinbeck

Question 43

Harvard economist member of the black cabinet

Answer 43

Weaver

Question 44

worked for the state department

Answer 44

Ralph Bunche

Question 45

white photographer who took pics of poor farmers

Answer 45

Margaret Bourke

Question 46

gripping photos of migrant workers

Answer 46

Dorothea Lange

Question 47

mine worker who broke away from the AFL and helped form CIO

Answer 47

John Lewis

Question 48

stop all machines and refuse to leave the factory

Answer 48

Sit Down Strike

Question 49

National Labor Relations Act

Answer 49

Wagner Act

Question 50

head of the garment workers who helped form the CIO

Answer 50

Dubinsky

Question 51

broke away from AFL

Answer 51

CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations)

Question 52

head of the needle workers; helped form CIO

Answer 52

Hillman

Question 53

set the minimum wage to 25 cents; maximum work week was 44 hours

Answer 53

Fair Labor Standards Act

Question 54

a 4 day period when the federal gov't ordered banks closed

Answer 54

bank holiday