Chapter 5

Question 1

William Waters

Answer 1

Leader of the Bonus Army

Question 2

Douglas MacArthur

Answer 2

Chief Staff of the US Army

Question 3

Harry Hopkins

Answer 3

Said that unemployed people should not just get a check, they should get a job.

Question 4

John Maynard Keynes

Answer 4

Said that the government needed to spend and spend to get out of the depression.

Question 5

Henry Morgenthau

Answer 5

Secretary of the treasury of Theordore Roosevelt

Question 6

Frances Perkins

Answer 6

Secretary of Labor, First women in the president’s cabinet

Question 7

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

Answer 7

Chief Political advisor in the FDR cabinet

Question 8

Charles Coughlin

Answer 8

Priest with a religious radio show that went too political and was an anti-Jewish

Question 9

Francis Townsend

Answer 9

Was a retired Dentist, wanted every person 60 or older to get 200 dollars every month as long as they spend it in 30 days

Question 10

Huey Long

Answer 10

Was a traveling salesman, became senator of Louisiana. Wanted to garuntee thst each family makes atleast 5,000 dollars each year.

Question 11

Robert F. Wagner

Answer 11

Senator from NY who sponsored the National Labor Relations Act

Question 12

Dorothea Lange

Answer 12

Photographer set out across the country to document the Great Depression

Question 13

John Steinbeck

Answer 13

Wrote grapes of wrath and of mice and men,

Question 14

John Collier

Answer 14

Head of BIA (Bureau of Indians Affair)

Question 15

Marian Anderson

Answer 15

Black opera singer who was booked in D.C at a theatre owned by white women. Ended up performing a free concert at Lincoln Memorial

Question 16

Purchasing goods by putting small amounts of money down each month

Answer 16

Installment plan

Question 17

Buying stock on credit

Answer 17

margin buying

Question 18

Gave a hint that the Great Depression was going to happen

Answer 18

economic indicators

Question 19

The day the stock market crashed

Answer 19

Black Tuesday

Question 20

Where people could get food and coffee

Answer 20

breadlines

Question 21

Homeless communities in the Great Depression

Answer 21

Hoovervilles

Question 22

WW1 veterans that marched in formation to the white house because they wanted their money

Answer 22

Bonus Army

Question 23

When they show up to work but don’t do anything

Answer 23

sit-down strike

Question 24

When all the banks in the country was closed until further notice

Answer 24

bank holiday

Question 25

The first three months on FDR's administration where congress passed important pieces of legislative

Answer 25

Hundred Days

Question 26

FDR's radio broadcasts that caused families to sit down together and listen

Answer 26

fireside chats

Question 27

Massive government spending with absolutely no regard of balancing the budget.

Answer 27

deficit spending

Question 28

When the great plains received no rain and caused the soil to dry out and create dust

Answer 28

Dust Bowl

Question 29

Congress granted Roosevelt authority to negotiate trade deals with individual countries

Answer 29

reciprocal trade agreements

Question 30

Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act*

Answer 30

It prohibits certain ingredients in makeup, medicine and food.

Question 31

Causes of the Great Depression (4)

Answer 31

1. Too much credit 2. Overproduction 3. Over speculation in margin buying stock 4. high tariffs

Question 32

Economic statistics that indicated problems were coming for the American economy (4)

Answer 32

1. Housing starts down 2. Factory Orders down 3. Inventories up 4. Prices down

Question 33

Problems faced by women during the Great Depression (4); problems faced by children (2)**

Answer 33

1. Abandoned by husbands 2. First fired, last hired 3. Unions pressure employers to not hire women 4. Some states prohibit hiring married women 1. Quit school and work 2. Malnutrition

Question 34

Minorities hit harder by the Depression? Eligible for government assistance?

Answer 34

Yes and yes

Question 35

Reaction of farmers to the drop in prices during the Depression

Answer 35

Farmers decided to destroy their crop that they already had

Question 36

Reasons why many workers with jobs were unhappy; result of their unhappiness

Answer 36

Workers are asked to work longer hours for less pay which results in violence and starts strike

Question 37

Actions taken by Herbert Hoover in attempting to deal with the Great Depression (3)

Answer 37

1. Low-cost loans (farmers and homeowners) 2. Gov't $ to businesses 3. Government jobs

Question 38

Activities used by Americans as temporary escapes from their troubles during the Depression (6)

Answer 38

1. Movies 2. Baseball 3. Radio 4. Board games (Monopoly) 5. Reading 6. Music

Question 39

Provisions of the Emergency Banking Act (2)

Answer 39

1. Treasure department to audit every bank in the US | 2. Forbids the private ownership of gold

Question 40

Benefits provided by the Social Security Act (4)

Answer 40

1. Retirement pensions 2. Disability Insurance 3. Unemployment Insurance 4. Death Benefit

Question 41

Provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (3)

Answer 41

1. Minimum Wage 2. Max Hours 3. Prohibits factory work by children until 18

Question 42

Provisions of the National Labor Relations Board (4)

Answer 42

1. Guarantees right to join union of choice 2. Employers must bargain "in good faith" 3. NLRB to supervise the union election and investigate law violations 4. NLRB fine employers

Question 43

Purpose of the Revenue Acts of 1935 and 1938

Answer 43

Distribution of wealth from the rich to the poor

Question 44

Provisions of the Indian Reorganization Act (3)

Answer 44

1. Tribes receive self- government 2. SOME Indian land restored 3. Government promises funding economic development

Question 45

Serious political mistake made by FDR

Answer 45

Redoing the membership of the supreme court by appointing someone else political favorable to a judge that is 70 of older.

Question 46

Causes of the recession of 1938 (2)

Answer 46

1. End of New Deal jobs | 2. Payroll Deduction

Question 47

Who is the Migrant Mother?

Answer 47

Florence Owens Thompson