MCQs of History - The Great Depression – Multiple Choice Question

Question 1 of 40

1. Question

All of the following were causes of the Great Depression except_______.

Poor banking practices
Depressed precious prices
European countries' inability to pay their debt
Overproduction in factories and on farms

Question 2 of 40

2. Question

The “Bonus Army” marched on Washington, D.C., to pressure Congress to_____.

Pay World War I veterans their army pensions early
Pass the Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act to protect organised labour
Dole out federal aid to the homeless and depressed living in "Homerville"
Help destitute farmers survive in the Dust Bowl region

Question 3 of 40

3. Question

How did Herbert Hoover believe that the economy could be revived?

Through government intervention to directly assist the poor
By supporting industry in the hopes, the federal dollars at the trop would "trickle down" to the protest Americans
By forcing Britain and France to repay their war debts
By shifting the base of the economy away from heavy industry toward the production of consumer goods

Question 4 of 40

4. Question

Why did topsoil turn to a fine layer of infertile dust in the Dust Bowl region of the United States?

Tornadoes had ravaged the region
The area was poorly irrigated
Farmers had not planted-replenishing crops
All of the above

Question 5 of 40

5. Question

Franklin Delano Roosevelt won a landslide victory in 1932 because Americans_____.

Were dissatisfied with Hoover's "ride-it-out" policy
Distrusted Hoover after the "Battle of Anacostia Flats"
Wanted more direct federal assistance
All of the above

Question 6 of 40

6. Question

The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was not different from the Klan of the nineteenth century in that______.

It was also anti-Jewish
It was also anti-black
It was also anti-immigration
All of the above

Question 7 of 40

7. Question

What prompted the 1919-1920 Red Scare in the United States?

Eugene V. Debs and the rise of the Socialist Party
The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
The influx of southern and eastern European immigrants to the United States
All of the above

Question 8 of 40

8. Question

The Eighteenth Amendment______.

Gave women the right to vote
Allowed Americans to elect U.S. senators directly
Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol
Ended Prohibition

Question 9 of 40

9. Question

In which U.S. election were women first allowed to vote?

1920
1924
1928
1932

Question 10 of 40

10. Question

The Emergency Quota Act severely reduced immigration from______.

Northern Europe
Southern and eastern Europe
Ireland and Germany
Latin America

Question 11 of 40

11. Question

What did the Immigration Act of 1924 do?

Increased national immigration quotas from their 1921 levels
Decreased national immigration quotas from their 1921 levels
Forbade Latin Americans from entering the United States
Forbade Chinese immigrants from entering the United States

Question 12 of 40

12. Question

The Scopes Monkey Trial illustrated the heated debate between_____.

Christian fundamentalists and those who believed in natural selection
Democrats and Republicans regarding immigration
The wets and the dry's regarding Prohibition
Liberals and Conservatives regarding the New Deal

Question 13 of 40

13. Question

What caused the so-called Roosevelt Recession of 1937?

Over-speculation in western lands
Germany's inability to repay war reparations to Britain and France
Overspending
The U.S. government's overly hasty retreat from deflict spending

Question 14 of 40

14. Question

What did the 1939 Hatch Act do?

Reduced the exorbitantly high tax on foreign goods under the Smoot-Hawley tariff
Further reduced immigration
Barred federal officials from participating in political campaigns
Helped farmers by paying them to burn surplus crops

Question 15 of 40

15. Question

The Five-Power Naval Treaty of 1922 reflected_____.

America's unwillingness to remain over-involved in international affairs
Harding's interest in protecting American territorial possessions in the Pacific
Japan's willingness to scale down military operations in Asia
Europe's willingness to uphold the Open Door policy in China

Question 16 of 40

16. Question

The Dawes Plan______.

Outlawed tribal ownership of Native American land
Revitalised the financial sector of the American economy in 1933-1934
Outlined Roosevelt's three -step program to provide relief, recovery, and reform to end the depression
Rescheduled Germany's war reparation payments to Britain and France

Question 17 of 40

17. Question

Henry Ford changed industrial America by perfecting a method of______.

Building machines with interchangeable parts
Vertical integration
Horizontal integration
Assembly-line integration

Question 18 of 40

18. Question

Why did more and more Americans move out of the cities and into the suburbs in the 1920s?

Cars allowed them to Commute
Costs of living in the city soared to unprecedented heights
Cities grew increasingly dangerous due to the rise of organised crime
Americans feared the influx of southern and eastern European immigrants

Question 19 of 40

19. Question

Warren G. Harding’s administration and personal reputation were tainted by______.

The convictions of Sacco and Vanzetti
The scopes Monkey Trial
The Teapot Dome scandal
The Crash of 1929

Question 20 of 40

20. Question

The Twenty-First Amendment______.

Gave women the right to vote
Allowed Americans to elect U.S. senators directly
Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol
Ended Prohibition

Question 21 of 40

21. Question

What did the Fordney-McCumber Tariff do?

Sparked the tariff war between the United States and Western Europr
Drove the tariff rate up to nearly 40 percent
Stifled the European economy
All of the above

Question 22 of 40

22. Question

The tax on foreign goods under the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930______.

Was higher than it under the Fordney-McCumber Tariff of 1922
Was lower than it was under the Fordney-McCumber Tariff
Was the same as the Fordney-McCumber Tariff
Sparked the Great Depression

Question 23 of 40

23. Question

Attacks from cities such as Huey P. Long and Father Charles Coughlin were party responsible for_______.

The Civilian Conservation Crops
The Second New Deal
Prohibition
The Good Neighbour Policy

Question 24 of 40

24. Question

To which act was the Wanger Act most similar?

The Hatch Act
The Fair Labour Standards Act
The Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act
The Esch-Cummins Transportation Act

Question 25 of 40

25. Question

One unintended consequence of Prohibition was_____.

A rise in organised crime
Class riots in New York and Chicago
A rise in sale and consumption of tobaco
Republican losses in the congessional elections of 1926

Question 26 of 40

26. Question

What did Hoover’s Reconstruction Finance Corporation do?

Distributed government funds directly to the poorest Americans during the depression
Paid farmers to burn surplus crops to raise agricultural commodity prices
Loaned money to corporations, banks, and the states
Distributed money to victims of the Dust Bowl

Question 27 of 40

27. Question

The Indian Reorganisation Act of 1934 replaced______.

The Dawes Plan
The Dawes Servantly Act
The Hatch Act
The Norris-la Guardia Anti-Injuction Act

Question 28 of 40

28. Question

The election of 1936______.

Returned the White House to Republicans
Demonstrated that Americans' support for Roosevelt was waning
Had one of the lowest voter turnouts in history
Proved that Americans wholeheartedly supported the New Deal

Question 29 of 40

29. Question

What did the Fair Labour Standards Act do?

Outlawed workers' right to strike
Established the forty-hour workweek and a minimum wage
Created the Congress of Industrial Workers
Upheld workers' right to strike

Question 30 of 40

30. Question

The Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment subsidised farmers to______.

Grow only wheat and corn in order to curb nationwide hunger
Grow cotton to sell in Europe
Plant soil-replenishing crops such as soybeans
All of the above

Question 31 of 40

31. Question

Economist John Maynard Keynes believed that depressed economies could be Jump-started by______.

Deficit spending
Printing more paper money
Taking the nation off the gold standard
Protecting organised labour

Question 32 of 40

32. Question

Most New Deal legislation in the First Hundred Days was passed to________.

Provide immediate relief
Put the economy on the road to long-term recovery
Initiate reforms to prevent another depression
All of the above

Question 33 of 40

33. Question

Hoover’s attempts to end the depression differed from Roosevelt’s methods in that______.

Hoover pumped money into the economy by creating new jobs and welfare programs, whereas Roosevelt merely tried to prop up failing corporations and banks
Roosevelt pumped money into the economy by creating new jobs and welfare programs, whereas Hoover merely tried to prop failing corporations and banks
Hoover tried to help farmers first, whereas Roosevelt wanted to help factory workers first
Hoover through the federal government should assume control of all banks in the country, whereas believed that richer Americans should pay heavier taxes in order to redistribute wealth more evenly

Question 34 of 40

34. Question

how did the New Deal assist farmers?

By subsidising them to cut back production
By subsiding them to plant soil-enriching crops
By artificially inflating agricultural prices
All of the above

Question 35 of 40

35. Question

All of the following wee consequences of the Tennessee Valley Authority except______.

It spawned flurry of dam- building throughout the West
It brought electricity and modernisation to one of the nation's protest regions
It convinced Republicans that deficit spending on social welfare programs could have huge benifits
It provided almost full employment in the Tennessee River valley

Question 36 of 40

36. Question

Congress passed or created all of the following in 1933 as part of the First New Deal except______.

The Public Works Administration (PWA)
The Social Security Act
The federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
The Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC)

Question 37 of 40

37. Question

The CCC, the PWA, the CWA, and the WPA all were similar in that they all were______.

Created to reform the financial sector of the economy to prevent another depression
Created under the First New Deal
Created to provide immediate economic relief
Short down by the Supreme Court only a few years after their creation

Question 38 of 40

38. Question

Roosevelt reformed the banking and financial sectors of the economy in all of the following ways except______.

Providing insurance for all savings account deposits up to $5,000
Putting the United States on the silver standard
Taking the United States off the gold standard
Regulating and supervising stock market transactions

Question 39 of 40

39. Question

Why did many Americans criticise the Agricultural Adjustment Administration?

Because many of the neediest sharecroppers and tenant farmers received no benefits
Because the AAA subsidised farmers to cut production by destroying excess crops while millions of people didn't have enough food
Because the AAA established artificially high prices
All of the above

Question 40 of 40

40. Question

Buying stocks “on margin” refers to the practice of_______.

Purchasing stocks without researching companies or market trends beforehand
Taking out bank loans to buy stocks
Taking out illegal loans from gangsters in order to buy stocks
Using the prospect of future stock earnings to buy more stocks

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