The Great Depression Topic Test | questions and answers | 2023/24

The Great Depression Topic Test | questions and answers | 2023/24 What did struggling businesses do to try to remain open during the Great Depression? They paid off their bank loans. They formed shantytowns. They retrained workers. They laid-off workers. - D Which best explains why farmers in the Great Depression could not repay their loans? The price of crops was too high. The price of crops was too low. The price of topsoil was too high. The price of farm equipment was too low. - B Which group would have been most likely to answer an ad for a fruit-picking job in California? bankers on the Great Plains farmers in the Dust Bowl fruit growers in California writers such as John Steinbeck - B Which best describes the"brain trust" Franklin Roosevelt promised to make part of his administration? a group of America's most successful businessmen, who would fix the economy a group of Hoover's economic advisers, who would undo previous damage to the economy a group of smart advisers, who would assist Roosevelt in guiding the nation forward a group of military veterans, who would assist Roosevelt in putting Americans back to work - C A negative effect of the 1933 National Industry Recovery Act was employees bargaining with employers. employers spying on employees. employees spying on employers. employers bargaining with the government. - C Which group would have been most likely to oppose New Deal reforms? farmers business owners construction workers bank depositors - B When farmers'