The American Yawp Chapters 23-26
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What is the name of the period of time during which President Roosevelt
created numerous laws and programs to stabilize the U.S. economy,
including the Emergency Banking Act, which set up stricter federal
guidelines in banks; the Glass-Steagall Banking Act, which instituted
federal deposit insurance and banned the comingling of commercial and
investment banking; the Civilian Conservation Corps, which employed
young men on conservation and reforestation projects; the Federal
Emergency Relief Administration, which gave cash assistance to the
unemployed; and the Tennessee Valley Authority, which established
hydroelectric dams along the Tennessee River? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔First
Hundred Days
What is the name of the informal addresses that Roosevelt delivered via
radio during his tenure as U.S. President, in which he explained New Deal
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,legislation and tried to instill confidence in government action and secure
the support of U.S. citizens? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Fireside Chats
What U.S. region was particularly hurt by the Great Depression, for this
region's economy remained primarily agricultural with the cultivation of few
crops; laborers earned much less than their national counterparts in the few
low-wage and low-skilled industries located there; and, at the time of the
crash, the U.S. citizens who lived in this region already were
undereducated, underpaid, and underfed? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The South
In 1932, when the U.S. unemployment average reached 25%,
unemployment for what American group simultaneously reached double
that (ca. 50%) as a result of deeply entrenched discrimination? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔African Americans / black people
The passage of what 1935 act provided federal protection for unionized
workers throughout the U.S., especially in the South where wages in
factories were egregiously low? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔National Labor Relations
Act / the Wagner Act
In response to the farming families who had fled the southwestern plains
states in droves, many of whom migrated to California in search of
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,agricultural work during the 1930s, the states of California, Florida, and
Colorado founded what in the winter of 1935-1936 to prevent poor citizens
from relocating to their states and to reduce competition for jobs? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔border blockades
In 1935, the leader of the United Mine Workers, John L. Lewis, founded
what national workers' organization, which oversaw the triumphant 1937
United Auto Workers sit-down strike for better pay and hours at a General
Motors plant in Flint, Michigan, during which the laborers remained in the
building until management agreed to negotiate? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Congress
of Industrial Organizations
What is the name of the U.S. labor leader who was appointed
Commissioner of the New York State Labor Department in 1929, for which
she enacted legislation that increased workplace safety and decreased
child labor in factories, and who served as the first female cabinet member
as U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Frances
Perkins
President Roosevelt created many New Deal programs and policies to
specifically aid the South, including what program, which provided the
installation of hydroelectric dams, agricultural and industrial reform, flood
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, control, economic development, education, and healthcare for
Southerners? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Tennessee Valley Authority
Although the U.S. economy stabilized and GDP increased as a result of the
programs created by President Roosevelt during the First Hundred Days,
unemployment remained high, prompting Roosevelt to create the Civil
Works Administration, Works Progress Administration, and Public Works
Administration, which employed millions of Americans as part of what
overall domestic program? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The New Deal
What Republican U.S. President enacted the highest tariff in U.S. history --
the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930 -- right when international markets began
to collapse, which caused other nations to increase their tariffs, abruptly
halt international trade, and U.S. exports to precipitously fall? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Herbert Hoover
What is the name of the most calamitous stock market crash in U.S.
History, which occurred on October 29, 1929, when stock values in major
companies, including U.S. Steel and General Motors, plummeted and,
subsequently, the fortunes of many American investors and industrialists
virtually disappeared? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Black Tuesday / Wall Street Crash
/ The Great Crash / The Stock Market Crash
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Notes 2025/2026 Exam Questions and
Verified Answers | Already Graded A+
What is the name of the period of time during which President Roosevelt
created numerous laws and programs to stabilize the U.S. economy,
including the Emergency Banking Act, which set up stricter federal
guidelines in banks; the Glass-Steagall Banking Act, which instituted
federal deposit insurance and banned the comingling of commercial and
investment banking; the Civilian Conservation Corps, which employed
young men on conservation and reforestation projects; the Federal
Emergency Relief Administration, which gave cash assistance to the
unemployed; and the Tennessee Valley Authority, which established
hydroelectric dams along the Tennessee River? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔First
Hundred Days
What is the name of the informal addresses that Roosevelt delivered via
radio during his tenure as U.S. President, in which he explained New Deal
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,legislation and tried to instill confidence in government action and secure
the support of U.S. citizens? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Fireside Chats
What U.S. region was particularly hurt by the Great Depression, for this
region's economy remained primarily agricultural with the cultivation of few
crops; laborers earned much less than their national counterparts in the few
low-wage and low-skilled industries located there; and, at the time of the
crash, the U.S. citizens who lived in this region already were
undereducated, underpaid, and underfed? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The South
In 1932, when the U.S. unemployment average reached 25%,
unemployment for what American group simultaneously reached double
that (ca. 50%) as a result of deeply entrenched discrimination? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔African Americans / black people
The passage of what 1935 act provided federal protection for unionized
workers throughout the U.S., especially in the South where wages in
factories were egregiously low? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔National Labor Relations
Act / the Wagner Act
In response to the farming families who had fled the southwestern plains
states in droves, many of whom migrated to California in search of
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,agricultural work during the 1930s, the states of California, Florida, and
Colorado founded what in the winter of 1935-1936 to prevent poor citizens
from relocating to their states and to reduce competition for jobs? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔border blockades
In 1935, the leader of the United Mine Workers, John L. Lewis, founded
what national workers' organization, which oversaw the triumphant 1937
United Auto Workers sit-down strike for better pay and hours at a General
Motors plant in Flint, Michigan, during which the laborers remained in the
building until management agreed to negotiate? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Congress
of Industrial Organizations
What is the name of the U.S. labor leader who was appointed
Commissioner of the New York State Labor Department in 1929, for which
she enacted legislation that increased workplace safety and decreased
child labor in factories, and who served as the first female cabinet member
as U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Frances
Perkins
President Roosevelt created many New Deal programs and policies to
specifically aid the South, including what program, which provided the
installation of hydroelectric dams, agricultural and industrial reform, flood
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, control, economic development, education, and healthcare for
Southerners? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Tennessee Valley Authority
Although the U.S. economy stabilized and GDP increased as a result of the
programs created by President Roosevelt during the First Hundred Days,
unemployment remained high, prompting Roosevelt to create the Civil
Works Administration, Works Progress Administration, and Public Works
Administration, which employed millions of Americans as part of what
overall domestic program? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The New Deal
What Republican U.S. President enacted the highest tariff in U.S. history --
the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930 -- right when international markets began
to collapse, which caused other nations to increase their tariffs, abruptly
halt international trade, and U.S. exports to precipitously fall? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Herbert Hoover
What is the name of the most calamitous stock market crash in U.S.
History, which occurred on October 29, 1929, when stock values in major
companies, including U.S. Steel and General Motors, plummeted and,
subsequently, the fortunes of many American investors and industrialists
virtually disappeared? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Black Tuesday / Wall Street Crash
/ The Great Crash / The Stock Market Crash
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