Ahap - Ch. 25 Workbook Tf

Front 1

When the stock market began to decline in October 1929, large financial institutions such as J.P. Morgan and Company tried to stem the drop.

Back 1

True

Front 2

The prosperity of the American economy in the mid-1920s was largely dependent on the construction and automobile industries

Back 2

True

Front 3

During the 1920s, corporate profits went disproportionately to the producers rather than potential consumers

Back 3

True

Front 4

The stock market reached its lowest point of the depression era in late 1929 and then gradually inched back up, finally reaching 1928 levels by mid-1932

Back 4

False

Front 5

Most economic historians believe that one important cause of the Great Depression was the United States' decision early in the 1920s to forgive the debts that France and Great Britain owed to U.S. banks for loans taken out during WWI

Back 5

False

Front 6

During the Great Depression, several hundered thousand African Americans left the industrial cities of the North to return to their agriculturally based families in the south.

Back 6

False

Front 7

Black women in the South suffered massive unemployment partly because many white families cut back on domestic help during the Depression

Back 7

True

Front 8

In general, American social values apparantly changed relatively little in response to the Depression

Back 8

True

Front 9

The Scottsboro case illustrated the corrupt practices of many stock brokers and securities dealers.

Back 9

False

Front 10

In response to the economic crisis, membership in the American Communist Party grew into a significant political force, and the part obtained virtual autonomy from Soviet control

Back 10

False

Front 11

Norman Thomas's columns in the New York Times warned Americans to resist the rising strength of socialism and political radicalism

Back 11

False

Front 12

The Southern Tenant Farmers Union tried to build an economic coalition between black and white sharecropers and cash renters

Back 12

True

Front 13

Herber Hoover's public response to the Depression in 1929 and 1930 was to deny that the nation was even in a recession or depression

Back 13

False

Front 14

The Hawley-Smoot Tariff tried to counter the economic downturn by slashing rates to encourage more trade.

Back 14

False

Front 15

The bonus March, organized by the NAACP, demanded that the Hoover administration provide more relief for the unemployed

Back 15

False

Front 16

The Farmers' Holiday Association, fearing a loss in prestige for agricultural pursuits, demanded that October 15 be designated as Harvest Day in honor of their contributions.

Back 16

False

Front 17

Realizing that Hoover had been discredited, the Republicans nominaed former President William Howard Taft to run against Franklin Roosevelt in 1932.

Back 17

False

Front 18

Despite a physical handicap due to polio, Roosevelt exuded a confident and buoyant personality

Back 18

True

Front 19

New Deal was the nickname given to Roosevelt's depression-fighting plans by journalists even though he never used the term himself.

Back 19

True

Front 20

The Twentieth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reduced the time between the presidential election and the inauguration of the winner as president.

Back 20

True