Ahap - Ch. 25 Workbook Mc

Front 1

Three of the following statements correctly describe conditions in the stock market during the year and a half preceding the Great Crash of 1929. Which is the exception?

Back 1

Most brokers required cash payment in full for stock purchases.

Front 2

In the several months preceding the Great Crash of 1929, three of the following economic indicators decreased dramatically. Which one increased?

Back 2

business inventories

Front 3

One of the most important causes of the Great Depression was the fact that during the 1920s

Back 3

there was a fundamental maldistribution of purchasing power

Front 4

In much of the 1920s, European nations were able to make their war-debt payments to the United States, and Germany and Austria were able to continue reparation payments by

Back 4

getting new loans from the United States

Front 5

At the depth of the Depression in 1932, the unemployment rate in the United States was estimated to have been

Back 5

25 percent

Front 6

In the early 1930s, the term "Okies" referred to

Back 6

dispossessed farmers fleeing the Dust Bowl

Front 7

Three of the following statements accurately describe the condition of blacks during the Great Depression. Which is the exception?

Back 7

The migration of blacks to the North ended abruptly

Front 8

In the 1920s, the great majority of Hispanics in California and the American Southwest originally migrated from

Back 8

Mexico

Front 9

One effect of the Great Depression on women was to

Back 9

Strengthen the belief that a woman's place was in the home

Front 10

Three of the following were effects of the Great Depression on the American family. Which is the exception?

Back 10

The divorce rate increased

Front 11

Popular culture during the Depression era, as manifested by radio, movies, and literature, was generaly characterized by

Back 11

upbeat and romantic messages as a sort of escapism

Front 12

Three of the following novels manifest an implicit protest against social injustices in then-contemporary American society. Which is the exception?

Back 12

Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind (1936)

Front 13

The Abraham Lincoln brigade was most closely associated with

Back 13

the Spanish Civil War

Front 14

The Popular Front tactics pursued by the American Communist party between 1935 and 1939 were aimed at developing a broad alliance against

Back 14

fascism

Front 15

For the eight years immediately before becoming president, Herbert Hoover had been the

Back 15

secretary of commerce

Front 16

The purpose of the Agricultural Marketing Act, proposed by Hoover even before the Great Crash of 1929, was to

Back 16

keep farm prices up

Front 17

After the effects of the Depression spread to Europe, in an attempt to restore international economic stability, Hoover proposed

Back 17

a moratorium on war debts, reparations, and private international debts

Front 18

Hoover's measures to deal with the Depression included support for three of the following. Which is the exception?

Back 18

a large-scale federal program of direct relief to the unemployed

Front 19

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was largely ineffective in promoting recovery from the Depression because

Back 19

it was underfunded and overcautious in the use of the funds it did have

Front 20

When it was first organized, how did the Farmers' Holiday Association seek to gain higher prices for farm products?

Back 20

by withholding crops from the market