Blinn US History 1302 Exam 3 & 4
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Graded A+
slowing steel production - ✔✔Reasons for the great depression
-decreasing residential construction
-
-declining consumer spending
-declining employment
Smoot-Hawley Tariff - ✔✔over 1,000 economists warned against the
____________ of 1930 because it would raise prices on most products and raw
materials by impeding imports.
construction projects - ✔✔Hoover's response to depression:
-organized conferences at the white house with business leaders
-placed trust in American capitalism (laissez faire)
-asked people to keep hope
-urged states to follow through with _________
Glass-Steagall Act - ✔✔broadened the definition of commercial loans and
federal reserve and was seen by most people as too little, too late
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,hoovervilles - ✔✔shanty towns
hoover blanket - ✔✔newspapers used as blankets
economy - ✔✔FDR faced 4 major challenges when he became president:
-alleviating widespread american suffering
-reforming the ________ to prevent another great depression
-reassuring the farm sector
-reviving the industrial _________
25 - ✔✔___% of people were unemployed when FDR became president
prohibition - ✔✔FDR was in favor of ending _______
20th amendment - ✔✔due to advanced transportation, FDR made a change of
dates for start of presidential/congressional terms
brain trust - ✔✔FDR knew he wasn't a deep thinker, so he put together a
"________" of people that would help shape the policy
fireside chats - ✔✔The informal radio conversations Roosevelt had with the
people to keep spirits up. It was a means of communicating with the people on
how he would take on the depression.
FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - ✔✔the government agency that
insured customers' deposits up to $2,500 if a bank fails
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,stock and bonds - ✔✔Security exchange comissions regulates the chaotic
_______ ___ ______ market and requires all stockbrokers to be licensed. It
regulates the trading insurance of stocks and bonds
CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) - ✔✔hired young men to perform
reforestation conservation work
CWA (Civil Works Administration) - ✔✔was the first large scale federal
experiment to create jobs
WPA (Works Progress Administration) - ✔✔key New Deal agency that provided
work relief through various public-works projects
AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act) - ✔✔Provided federal subsidies to farmers
who cut farm production to raise crop prices for all farmers.
NRA (National Recovery Administration) - ✔✔the ___ allowed major industries
to draft codes of fair competition and create the labor standards.
spousal desertion - ✔✔During the great depression, __________, suicide rate,
prostitution, and crimes were all on the rise.
Dust Bowl - ✔✔A nickname for the Great Plains regions hit by drought and dust
storms in the early 1930s
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, hardest hit - ✔✔Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma
are the states that were _______
cotton belt - ✔✔The majority of dust bowl refugees came from the
_____________ communities of Arkansas, Texas, Missouri, and Oklahoma
racism - ✔✔FDR failed to fight ______ because he didn't was to lose democratic
votes in the coming 1936 election
native americans - ✔✔FDR's new deal ignored blacks and ____________.
Mexican - ✔✔During the great depression the US government deported half a
million _______ Americans and their American born children because officials
wanted to avoid the cost of giving these people public services.
social reform - ✔✔Elanor roosevelt promoted _______ and was an outspoken
advocate.
Francis Perkins - ✔✔-Roosevelt's Secretary of Labor
-first woman cabinet member in U.S. history
-helped create social security
Townsend Plan - ✔✔A plan proposed by Francis Townsend in 1933 that would
give $200 a month (about $3,300 today) to citizens over the age of sixty.
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Questions with 100% Correct Answers |
Graded A+
slowing steel production - ✔✔Reasons for the great depression
-decreasing residential construction
-
-declining consumer spending
-declining employment
Smoot-Hawley Tariff - ✔✔over 1,000 economists warned against the
____________ of 1930 because it would raise prices on most products and raw
materials by impeding imports.
construction projects - ✔✔Hoover's response to depression:
-organized conferences at the white house with business leaders
-placed trust in American capitalism (laissez faire)
-asked people to keep hope
-urged states to follow through with _________
Glass-Steagall Act - ✔✔broadened the definition of commercial loans and
federal reserve and was seen by most people as too little, too late
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,hoovervilles - ✔✔shanty towns
hoover blanket - ✔✔newspapers used as blankets
economy - ✔✔FDR faced 4 major challenges when he became president:
-alleviating widespread american suffering
-reforming the ________ to prevent another great depression
-reassuring the farm sector
-reviving the industrial _________
25 - ✔✔___% of people were unemployed when FDR became president
prohibition - ✔✔FDR was in favor of ending _______
20th amendment - ✔✔due to advanced transportation, FDR made a change of
dates for start of presidential/congressional terms
brain trust - ✔✔FDR knew he wasn't a deep thinker, so he put together a
"________" of people that would help shape the policy
fireside chats - ✔✔The informal radio conversations Roosevelt had with the
people to keep spirits up. It was a means of communicating with the people on
how he would take on the depression.
FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) - ✔✔the government agency that
insured customers' deposits up to $2,500 if a bank fails
2|Page
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,stock and bonds - ✔✔Security exchange comissions regulates the chaotic
_______ ___ ______ market and requires all stockbrokers to be licensed. It
regulates the trading insurance of stocks and bonds
CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) - ✔✔hired young men to perform
reforestation conservation work
CWA (Civil Works Administration) - ✔✔was the first large scale federal
experiment to create jobs
WPA (Works Progress Administration) - ✔✔key New Deal agency that provided
work relief through various public-works projects
AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act) - ✔✔Provided federal subsidies to farmers
who cut farm production to raise crop prices for all farmers.
NRA (National Recovery Administration) - ✔✔the ___ allowed major industries
to draft codes of fair competition and create the labor standards.
spousal desertion - ✔✔During the great depression, __________, suicide rate,
prostitution, and crimes were all on the rise.
Dust Bowl - ✔✔A nickname for the Great Plains regions hit by drought and dust
storms in the early 1930s
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, hardest hit - ✔✔Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma
are the states that were _______
cotton belt - ✔✔The majority of dust bowl refugees came from the
_____________ communities of Arkansas, Texas, Missouri, and Oklahoma
racism - ✔✔FDR failed to fight ______ because he didn't was to lose democratic
votes in the coming 1936 election
native americans - ✔✔FDR's new deal ignored blacks and ____________.
Mexican - ✔✔During the great depression the US government deported half a
million _______ Americans and their American born children because officials
wanted to avoid the cost of giving these people public services.
social reform - ✔✔Elanor roosevelt promoted _______ and was an outspoken
advocate.
Francis Perkins - ✔✔-Roosevelt's Secretary of Labor
-first woman cabinet member in U.S. history
-helped create social security
Townsend Plan - ✔✔A plan proposed by Francis Townsend in 1933 that would
give $200 a month (about $3,300 today) to citizens over the age of sixty.
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