Great depression - class-X
Description: great depression | |
Number of Questions: 42 | |
Created by: Shankara Prabhu | |
Tags: between the two world wars - the russian revolution and the great depression history |
Which of the following represents an attempt by the Hoover administration to combat the effects of the Great Depression?
By the early 1930s, the U.S. film industry had made which of the following major changes?
The United States adopted neutrality laws in the 1930s as a response to the rise of which form of government in Europe?
Which one of the following men did NOT succeed to the presidency when the president under whom he served was assassinated?
Which of the following measures taken by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration brought aid to a rural area plagued by flooding, malnutrition, and poverty?
The stock market crash of October 29, 1929, had all the following effects except:
In The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck describes the fortunes of a family forced out of Oklahoma by the ravages of the ______.
The usual reaction of the stock market to a political crisis is _____.
All the following are included in the "Four Freedoms" President Franklin D. Roosevelt described to Congress in 1941 except:
The maintenance of the peace and safety of the United States was the stated aim of the _____.
All the following photographers created important visual records of aspects of U.S. history except:
In Powell v. Alabama, the Supreme Court revoked the death sentences of the "Scottsboro boys" on the grounds that _________.
Which of the following proposed a 1930s relief program in which money would be taken from the wealthy and given to the poor?
Congress passed the National Recovery Act in 1933 to do all the following except:
The Federal Securities Act created which of the following in an effort to reform business and guard against another stock market crash?
The impact of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930 was _______.
All the following are major photojournalists of the Great Depression EXCEPT:
National Industrial Recovery Act and the Wagner Act dealt with the issue of ________.
In response to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, the United States __________.
Which of the following explains the original purpose of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
The novel It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis _________.
Matches the artist and the cultural product he or she created:
X) John Steinbeck 1) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Y) Frank Capra 2) The Good Earth
Z) Margaret Mitchell 3) The Grapes of Wrath
4) Gone With the Wind
5) Waiting for Lefty
Which of the following organizations, born in the 1930s, focused on organizing unskilled workers?
Why the Sit-down strikes proved to be a successful strategy for some unions in the 1930s?
The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 was an attempt to increase farm prices by ___________.
One reason President Franklin D. Roosevelt was not a strong advocate of civil rights for African Americans was that he ____________.
The Stimson Doctrine of 1932 called for __________.
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck's Depression-era novel, chronicles the lives of ________.
Which of the following is true of the 1935 Works Progress Administration?
The most significant change in voting patterns in the 1930s was the _________________.
The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 and the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 are similar in that they both ____________________.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's actions were noteworthy because he ________________________________.
The period between 1918 in 1941 is best known for the development of which of the following art forms?
In accordance with his belief that the New Deal had not accomplished its goals, Francis Townsend proposed a plan to _______________.
Identify the correct statement about the novel "It Can't Happen Here" written by Sinclair Lewis.
During which of the following case, the constitutionality of the Bank of the United States was upheld in the Supreme Court decision?
ALL BUT WHICH of the following were factors that contributed to the repeal of the Prohibition Amendment by 1933?
The growth of the Communist Party in the United States in the 1930s was not due to the _____________________.
Which of the following best describes the differences that existed between the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the 1930s?
Ordinary dust storm took the form of the Black Blizzard in U.S. plains in 1930 because _________________.
The Social Security Act of 1935 was important in that it _________.
Which of the following is NOT a reason for the growth of the Communist Party in the United States in the 1930s?